PSP 101 INTRODUCTION TO SERVICE IN DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
1 semester, 3 hours

An examination of concepts of community and service and their status in the United States and the world today, including examination of alternative conceptions of community, and service and analysis of their meaning and value. Participation in a community service project required.

PSP 202 FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE
1 semester, 3 hours

An introduction to the basic precepts of organizations, organizational behavior, and organizational theory that provide the context within which public and community service take place.

PSP 301 COMMUNITY SERVICE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
1 semester, 3 hours

This course provides historical perspectives on the social and cultural settings in which service takes place in the American context, as well as the history of attempted solutions to social problems. The course will introduce students to the methodology and techniques of community action research, and of using community service to critically interpret cultures. Participation in a community service project required.

PSP 302 DIVERSITY, COMMUNITY, AND SERVICE
1 s emester, 3 hours

This course will explore diversity in American society and its implications for people involved in community service. Dimensions of diversity to be studied include ethnicity and race, language, religion. gender, social class, sexual orientation, and issues affecting people with "disabilities." Students will study problems in cross‑cultural communication and the ways in which their life experiences and the social structures of service organizations might affect their community service. Students will examine case studies in community service for implications relevant to diversity issues.

PSP 320-321 PRACTICUM IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2 semesters, 6 hours

This course provides the practical skills necessary for assuming leadership in communities and small groups, all as they relate to providing service. Students will develop skills in values clarification, facilitating communication, group process, team building, and problem solving, as well as issues of management and coordination of services and personnel. A practicum experience is included in the course, where students will be assisting faculty in courses that will include a service‑learning component, including serving as facilitators in service sites, assisting in leading reflection and analysis activities and working with community leaders. Service experience and assistance in other courses with service‑learning components will be supervised and feedback will be provided to assist in development of management skills.

PSP 450 INTERNSHIP IN COMMUNITY SERVICE
1 semester, 3 hours

This course offers credit for an intensive public or community service internship experience in an applied setting. The course combines attention to community service issues with specific academic themes designated by the instructor. The choice of the internship placement will be integrated with the substance of each student's track courses. The experience will be supervised and evaluated with appropriate academic assignments, as designated by the instructor.

PSP 470 SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
1 semester, 3 hours

In‑depth analysis of special topics not covered in such depth in existing course offerings. The exact content will vary, but may be drawn from current issues, events and problems, or from theoretical and empirical debates in the research field of community service.

PSP 480-481 CAPSTONE SEMINAR
2 semesters, 6 hours

A year‑long seminar for senior majors that synthesizes and deepens academic learning‑ with practical experiences. The seminar will typically focus in on some of the larger concepts foundational to the major and the Institute and will give students an opportunity to draw together the complex, interdisciplinary material they have studied, including in their specialized track, during the previous three years. The seminar will culminate with each student submitting a significant written research project or product, in consultation with faculty.

PSP 490 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1 semester, 3 hours

A requirement for minors. A project, done in consultation with a faculty member, in which the student is free to pursue his or her own specialized interests in public and community service. Projects could include community involvement, reading and writing in a specialized area within the field, or community action research. Prior departmental approval required.