Service Learning
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Social Sciences Camosun College
The list below describes each course we offer, as well as prerequisites (if any) and a few other details.
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SOSC 203 Service Learning and Global Issues
(3 credits) (3 lecture hours per week)
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to service learning and global issues within the broad categories of economic development, social/cultural change, and environmental impacts. In small groups, students will undertake a major service learning activity to address one or more global issues of their choice in partnership with community organizations.
To find where this course transfers, check the BC Transfer Guide
Prerequisites: ENGL 151, or ENGL 161, or ENGL 163, or ENGL 164; or former ENGL 150 or former ENGL 160; and one course from one of the following disciplines: ANTH, ASIA, BUS, ECON, GEOG, GSWS, PSC, PSYC, OR SOC
Professor's Testimonies
The Africa Calling Project testifies to the power and relevance of Sociology to make a positive difference. Africa Calling engages with Charles Wright Mills’ (1959) concept of Sociological Imagination. Specifically, it engages and inspires people to stop being cheerful robots and network with others to harness the power of social relationships to solve social problems and change lives.
Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri
Professor, Sociology
January 26, 2012
Africa Calling is a great project to reduce the digital divide between developed and developing countries. Cell phones collected by Africa Calling will be an important social tool to provide people the opportunity to get connected with their families, access to critical health information, and conduct a wide range of business. It is also an environmentally friendly way to reduce the discarding of these cell phones to the landfill by extending their life cycle. I hope you will be able to join together to support the work of Africa Calling by donating your used cell phones or to help organize collecting cell phones in your work place or city.
Dr. Francis Yee
Instructor of Geography
Camosun College
Victoria, BC
Africa Calling is an ambitious, student led initiative to engage with issues beyond our own backyard. The recognition that discarded cell phones in our community open doors of opportunity for many different African communities is an example of small scale development that promotes sustainability, recycling, and collaboration with members of our global village. As an anthropologist, I am proud that Camosun students are making the effort to be part of positive change in a culturally relative manner.
Nicole Kilburn, MA
Anthropology and Archaeology
Department of Social Sciences
Camosun College, Victoria
