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Social Care | Youth Services | Youth Worker Programmes
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Welfare
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Program Overview


Saint Louis University's Ignatian service minor empowers students to serve underprivileged schools while exploring Ignatian spirituality, leadership, and vocation. Through project-based engagement, students develop a practical understanding of the connection between theory and practice and contribute to ending poverty in St. Louis. The minor includes required courses in Ignatian tradition, leadership, and vocation, as well as service-learning electives tailored to focus areas.

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Degree Overview:

Saint Louis University’s Ignatian service minor integrates reflection, leadership and professional formation through project-based community engagement. The minor serves under-resourced schools and helps to end the cycle of poverty in St. Louis with innovative after-school programming that exercises students’ minds and bodies. The minor’s three required courses examine the Jesuit tradition, Ignatian spirituality and servant leadership, and professional and vocation discernment.


Objectives:

  • To challenge students to help transform a city while the city transforms their education.
  • To provide students with a practical way to take a theology course.
  • To help students understand that theory and practice go hand-in-hand.

Other:

  • Students can create a custom pathway through the Saint Louis University Undergraduate Core that locates service as the integral component of the entire educational experience.
  • Students can coordinate electives into focus areas by submitting contracts for elective courses so long as the instructor agrees to adopt a syllabus to meet the program requirements.
  • Students participate in The Clavius Project, which brings robotics and STEM enrichment programming into underserved elementary and middle schools across St. Louis.
  • Students complete three required courses:
  • SERV 1000: Ignatian Spirituality and Service
  • SERV 3000: Ignatian Leadership and Service
  • SERV 4960: Ignatian Vocation and Service
  • Students must enroll in a lecture (3-credit LEC) and a service-site "internship" (0-credit INT) for SERV 1000 and SERV 3000.
  • All six courses include service learning.
  • Students must take elective coursework in more than one department to complete the minor.
  • All eligible elective courses must fulfill at least two of the five learning outcomes of the Ignatian service minor and require at least 25 credit hours of service learning as an academic part of the syllabus.
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