Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

•Use and understand the importance of civic engagement, volunteerism, and service in our community to support and advocate for such engagement.
•Use team building skills to work effectively in community service.
•Translate the leadership skills learned by engaging in service and volunteer activities to those needed in the work environment like communication techniques and organization.
•Manage a project from beginning to end.
•Evaluate the success of a service project or initiative.

Each student will be required to read some articles about the concept of servant leadership and civic engagement. A one page reflection paper will be submitted with students synthesizes concepts of civic engagement with servant leadership with the service project they work on during the quarter.
Each student will select a community service project to lead or participate (40 hours).
At the end of the quarter, each student will be required to submit a work log detailing their service with the project and a reflection paper evaluating the project.

Develop a portfolio of the activities and projects the student worked on during the quarter with their service project.
Write two one page papers that reflect on the topics of servant leadership and civic engagement. The instructor will supply each student those articles.

Civic Engagement
Servant Leadership
Ethics
Group Dynamics
Project Management