The Community Service
The COMMUNITY SERVICE PRACTICE COURSE
The Community Service Practice course is a compulsory course with a total of 3 hours a week and 2 credits, 1 hour of which is theoretical and 2 hours of practice. While the student is at the forefront and active duty in the community service practices course; the instructor observes and guides student work. The course allows students to choose and apply an activity or a study topic that can yield positive results at the end.
THE AIMS OF THE COURSE
- To enable students to become aware of certain emotional gains such as self-confidence, competence, taking responsibility and empathy by dealing with real people, real institutions and real events in an active learning environment. To enable students to develop creative thinking, critical thinking, effective communication, team work and problem solving skills that they will need in the future.
- Community service practices course can be effective in increasing students' sensitivity about social problems. Community service practices increase students' readiness for the profession. In this course, students can gain opportunities to develop these skills that they have to use at every stage of their professional lives such as observation, critical view of events, problem detection, data collection, implementation and management of activities, evaluation and sharing of what they have learned.
- Thanks to the course, students can identify social problems and manage to find solutions for these problems. Thus, they can develop their skills to become individuals sensitive to social problems.
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