By Cindy Baker, Staff Writer

Some students find it hard to get the credit they deserve.

For students in certain social and behavioral science courses, City College offers service-learning classes in addition to its normal array of courses, that allow students to fulfill many transfer requirements and provide a record of community service to universities, scholarship panels and future employers.

Service Learning Coordinator and sociology/ community studies professor Pam Flaherty eagerly encourages students to add service-learning units to their collegiate pursuits. With nearly half of all service-learning staff reporting, 90 students have already signed up for the program Flaherty calls a civic engagement.

Service learning is an opportunity for students to link a course with a community service, according to the City College service learning site. Some of the courses one may take would be: Sociology 375- online Intro to Community Development with Hilligoss, Sociology 310- online Sociology of Marriage with Block, and Math 334 with Lambert.

“Whether it be a concept, an idea, knowledge or a skill,” Flaherty says, “what you’re doing when you’re volunteering is intended to relate back to what you’re learning in class.”

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However, in the last four semesters of service learning, well over 50 percent of students who complete the program continue to volunteer. “It’s nice, I can do some good at the Sacramento Food Bank, write a ‘reflection essay’ about my experience and then get it all put onto my transcripts,” says City College student Kristina Baber. “I didn’t know my Race, Ethnicity and Inequality class could let me do that.”

Many students say that the service-learning program offers insights and is vastly applicable to their courses — and fun.

There are more than 3,000 non-profit organizations in the Sacramento region that welcome service learning students in a diverse array of volunteer placements – nonprofit dental assisting, GED tutoring, Web design and children’s art groups.

Community partners call student participation “rewarding” and credit their own thriving success directly to student help. Some even say that without the students of City College, their programs would not be able to survive.

Although official sign-ups for service learning are closed for the semester, many organizations are still continuing student orientations throughout the greater Sacramento area and there are still many volunteer placements available. Service Learning student information is easily accessible online at http://web.scc.losrios.edu/servicelearning/studentinfo.