Engage Upstate

Fall 2025 Courses Engage Students with Non-Profits and Community Partners

Evan Lawrence
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This fall, students in 35 courses are participating in 71 Service Learning and Community Engagement (SL/CE) opportunities with community partners throughout the Upstate and beyond. Through these courses, students gain hands-on experience applying skills they learn in class to solve problems and meet community needs.

Find more information on these courses by searching on Collaboratory.

Arts & Communication

Students in both introductory and advanced printmaking courses make unique, hand-crafted greeting cards for at risk community members. Discover the power of art to transform and connect us.

  • ARTS U207 – SL: Printmaking I
  • ARTS U315 – SL: Graphic Design III
  • JOUR U428 – SL: Public Relations Campaigns

Behavioral Sciences

  • CAST U499 – CE: Child Advocacy Internship
  • CRJU U490 – CE: Criminal Justice Internship
  • PSYC U302 – SL: Developmental Psychology
  • SOCY U101 – CE: Introduction to Sociology
  • SOCY U322 – CE: Community Development
  • SOCY U333 – CE: Race and Ethnic Relations

Students learn about the aging and maturation process and work with retirement communities, school, and hospital systems to volunteer in the community.

Business

  • MGMT U475 – CE: Advanced Operations Management

Education

  • CHME U305 – SL: Public Health Emergency Management and Preparedness
  • CHME U489 – CE: Community Health Internship
  • EDSC U398 – SL: Topics in Secondary Education

Honors

  • HONS U101 – SL: The Life of the Mind – Plugging In To My Community

Interdisciplinary Studies

  • IDST U110 – CE: Community Engagement

Languages

  • ASGL U310 – SL: Introduction to Interpreting ASL
  • ASLG U311 – SL: ASL to English Interpreting I
  • ASLG U312 – SL: English-ASL Interpreting I
  • ASLG U499 – CE: Internship
  • ENGL U101 – SE: Composition I
  • ENGL U102 - SE: Composition II
  • ENSL U348 – SL: Digital Storytelling
  • GERM U101 – CE: Introductory German I
  • SPAN U311 – SL: Introduction to Translation
  • SPAN U316 – SL: Advanced Interpreting

Nursing

  • NURS U306 – SE: Introduction to Professional Nursing
  • NURS U325 – SL: Evidence-based Practice
  • NURS U445 – SL: Child Health Nursing
  • NURS U461 – SL: Community & Public Health Nursing
  • NURS U703- SL: Cultural Perspectives in Healthcare

Sciences

  • BIOL U101 – SE: Introductory Biology
  • BIOL U220 - SE: Botany and Society 
  • EXSC U480 – CE: Internship Exercise & Sports Science

Service Learning Requirements

The three dropdowns below indicate what each term ENGAGE Upstate uses means, and what a course would require to be recognized as such.

SL – Service Learning

A course that heavily emphasizes a service project for a community member as a central aspect and includes at least 15 hours* of direct work on the project, academic instruction that ties to the service project, and meaningful reflection.

SE – Service Engaged

A course that facilitates service as a project for students in which they engage in the service for at least 4 hours.  Project is tied to classroom instruction and followed with meaningful reflection.

CE – Community Engaged

A course that requires students to participate in 4 hours of community-related engagement (going to a community event, observing community meetings, et cetera) related to classroom instruction and followed with meaningful reflection.