Washington and Lee University
Courses with service-learning components provide students with co-curricular experience at community agencies that complement the academic goals of a course or major. The Shepherd staff assists faculty in the development and facilitation of service-learning components within traditional curricula. Service-learning components ideally require two hours of service per week, maintenance of a journal and a final graded product demonstrating learned skills or student understanding of service work's relation to their academic studies. The Shepherd Program does not endorse ascribing grades for the completion of service as service.