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Apr 30, 2024
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EDCE 2015 - Camp Counseling Cultural Immersion: Service Learning
Camp Counseling Cultural Immersion: Service Learning is for students to learn, practice, and reflect upon interpersonal helping skills in a community service context. Camp counseling equips students with interpersonal skills such as leadership, service, cultural diversity, and even helping profession microskills. Our course’s laboratory combines youth from both at-risk and not at-risk backgrounds; from rural, urban, and suburban settings; of all races, ethnicities and cultures. Students in this course will volunteer for a week with our partner, Camp Oty’Okwa (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio) and practice 1) leadership and advocacy, 2) cross-cultural helping, and 3) team building skills through applied skill acquisition, service, and reflection.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 25.0 lecture, 50.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Develop and demonstrate programmatic interventions which help individuals and groups progress toward common goals.
- Develop and practice cross cultural helping skills, including understanding the influences of diversity and multiculturalism in individual and group contexts.
- Develop and practice leadership skills, including individual and group facilitation and advocacy.
- Practice serving others in an outdoor recreation context.
- Reflect on and articulate how helping skills can impact others as well as self, and determine where these skills will influence participants future careers and relationships.
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