What is a weekly engagement?
Since 1986, The Arrupe Partnerships has worked with faculty and community partners to provide community-based learning opportunities for SCU students. In connection to their academic courses or independently for personal interest, SCU students may engage in the community with a number of different community partners, including homeless shelters, multilingual/ESL educational programs, law clinics, immigrant service centers, preschools, church parishes, health care agencies, and an intergenerational theater company.
Students choose from a menu of placements selected by their professor as appropriate to their academic discipline and course material. Students choose their placement and sign up during the first week of each quarter. Some placements may require a TB test or fingerprinting. Participation begins with an orientation at each placement site during the second week of the quarter.
Over the course of the quarter, students provide feedback through the Early Placement Report (EPR), participate in a reflection session. Additionally they may use an Arrupe car to get to and from their placement. Students participate at the placement for 8 weeks for approximately 2 hours each week during the quarter. Community partners, who serve as on-site mentors, identify activities and tasks for students which are appropriate for meeting course requirements.
Together, Arrupe staff, faculty partners, community partners, and students reflect on both classroom and placement learning, yielding tangible benefits to the community as well as an integrated educational experience.
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