Hartwick college

Students who engage in service as part of their Hartwick experience are able to:

Theory into Practice:

• Puts concepts into concrete form; grounds ideas
• Provides a context for understanding abstract matter
• Allows opportunities to test and refine theories
• Gives opportunities to introduce new theories

 Enhance the Learning Process:

• Increased retention of learning via meaningful connection to content
• Students can become the "real" world experts
• Provides meaningful bases for reports, papers, and assignments
• Improves both the process and products of learning

Integrate Learning:

• Presents challenges requiring more than one set of skills or knowledge
• Provides diverse contexts for linking "real" world with academy
• Gives opportunities to study in depth (immersion)

 Learn How to Learn:

• Collect and evaluate data
• Relate seemingly unrelated matters and ideas
• Self-directed learning, inquiry, logical thinking, and experience
• Transfers learning from one context to another