Current Service Learning Courses
NURS 264 – Managing Client Care
Instructor: Sue Winn
Community Partners:
- Salvation Army – “Night on the Van”
- Service Learning project: Students ride along with the Salvation Army delivering hot meals to families in need.
- La Vie – Early Pregnancy Clinic
- Service Learning Project : Students will volunteer at the clinic assisting in educating women in the early stages of pregnancy.
- Montana Marrow Program
- Service Learning Project: Development and implementation of a bone marrow drive
MGMT 488 - Business Strategy
Instructor: Jennifer Leonard
Community Partner:
- TBD
- Each Semester students will work with a struggling community business to develop and implement a new business plan.
COMT 492/592 – Media for Social Change
Instructor: Sarah Keller
Community Partner:
- TBD
- Dr. Sarah Keller partners with a different community agency each semester and her class works with the partner to develop a unique media plan for that agency.
SOCI 431 – Sociology of Gender Roles
Instructor: Joy Honea
Community Partner:
- YWCA
- Students will organize, schedule speakers and promote a full day conference on topics that fit the parameters of the YWCA National Initiatives.
PHL 110 – Introduction to Ethics
Instructor: Lisa Kemmerer
Community Partners:
- Salvation Army – “Night on the Van”
- Service Learning project: Students ride along with the Salvation Army delivering hot meals to families in need.
- Big Sky Senior Services - “Adopt a Grandparent”
- Service Learning project: Elders in the community will be partnered with students enrolled in the class to spend time interacting with one another.
- The HUB
- Service Learning project: The HUB, a homeless drop-in center will allow students to deliver presentations, take part in group discussions and participate in various activities while they evaluate the ethical treatment of homeless mental health patients.
EDU 397 A & B – Methods: K-8 and 5-12 Social Studies
Instructor: Michael Scarlett
Community Partner:
- Lewis and Clark Middle School
- Service Learning project: Education students will have the opportunity to develop 9/11 lesson plans to assist middle school Social Studies teachers approach the difficult subject in meaningful ways.
M 151 – Precalculus
Instructor: Rick McIntyre
Community Partner:
- Garfield Community Resource Center
- Service Learning project: Students enrolled in Precalculus will use their knowledge of complex mathematics in tutoring efforts focused on providing community members with the skills needed to pass their GED high school equivalency tests.
HHP 201 – Core Concepts in Health
Instructor: Shawn O’Brien
Community Partner:
- Discover Zone
- Service Learning project: The Discover Zone afterschool program will partner with students enrolled in Core Concepts in Health to educate children on nutrition and health.
ASC 294 – First Year Seminar
Instructors: Jeannie McIsaac Tracy, Tracy Mouser, Brent Roberts, Darlene Hert, Matt Redinger, Julie Seedhouse, Tyree Jenks, Jan Fandrich, Jeff Rosenberry, Kathy Kotecki, EileenWright, Megan Thomas, Krista Montague, Dan Carter, Jake Samuelson, Tom Rust, Jessica Smothers, Crystal Svoboda and Brian Kmec
Community Partners:
- Billings Fire Department
- Western Heritage Center
- Big Sky Senior Services
- Mayor’s Office
- Billings Police Department
- Veterans Upward Bound Program
- RSVP
- YWCA
- American Medical Response
- Q2 News
- VFW Post 6774 and Auxiliary
- Native American Development Corporation
- Service Learning project: Approximately 300 students enrolled in ASC 294 will conduct interviews, transcribe and archive findings in partnership with the Montana 9/11 Oral History Project in an effort to create a community learning tool to accompany the World Trade Center Memorial housed at the College of Technology.
