HCC recognizes that academic learning can be strengthened through
real-life experiences. The College also believes that students want
to be involved in the community in positive ways.
HCC's Community Service Learning and Cooperative Education programs
offer hands-on learning opportunities. Students get to build their
skills and contribute in personally meaningful ways to the community.
Community
Service Learning
Cooperative Education
Forms
for Community Service Learning Projects
Organization
List by Service
Community Service Learning
is a way for students to apply what they have learned in class while
making a difference in their communities. For example:
• Nursing students created an interactive health fair and taught
health education classes at North Star Academy, a charter high school
in Springfield.
• Psychology students worked with students involved with the
El Arco Iris Community Arts Center on a project documenting the
history of the Puerto Rican experience in Holyoke.
• Early Childhood Education students volunteered as readers
to children at Holyoke Pediatrics’ Reach Out and Read Program.
Each month, the Community Service Learning program compiles a list
of service learning opportunities. For further information, call
(413) 552-2714.
Cooperative Education
Cooperative Education is an opportunity to supplement and enrich a traditional academic
program with work experience related to various fields of study.
This provides students with knowledge and experience useful in making
informed career decisions, setting career goals, and planning further
education. It also allows students the opportunity to put theory
into practice. For additional information, please call (413) 552-2361.
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