There are many ways in which USC students can get involved in JEP:
- Enrollment in a course(s) offering service-learning community assignments
- Participation as a non-credit volunteer
- Involvement through the Trojan Health Volunteers
- Employment as a Program Assistant
- Employment as a Graduate Student
- Employment with USC ReadersPlus as a Readers Coordinator
- Workstudy position with USC ReadersPlus
- Employment as a Summer Public Service Intern
- Collaboration for research and thesis papers based on the urban community or education, like the Immigrant Project (pdf)
Service-Learning Options
Participation in ALL JEP service-learning options require:
- Eight week time commitment
- Two hours per week
- Two mandatory training sessions
- Weekly reflective journals/responses (and lesson plans for mini teams)
- A final analytical paper (if not required by professor)
All JEP asignments enable university students to deepen their understanding of course related content or skills. Students from the social sciences often work in assignments that allow them to observe in the community even while they are working with children and/or professionals in the community. Students from the natural sciences and some of the social sciences learn through planning and presenting a "mini-course" which mirror some of the primary concepts taught in their university classroom. And some students practice newly aquired skills such as Spanish while working in the community. Our primary assignments include: