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Service Learning Designation Request
Faculty who is interested in designating their course as service learning can designate their course as service learning required, optional, or extra credit.
Designate Your Course as Service Learning in PeopleSoft
Make sure your course is designated as a service learning course in PeopleSoft as service learning "required," "optional," or "extra credit". If your course is not designated as a service learning course, fill out the Service Learning Designation Form below. The service learning database (S4) that we use pulls course information from PeopleSoft to generate a copy of your course and class roaster in the S4 database. Once you submit the Service Learning Designation Form, our office will contact the Academic Scheduling to designate your course as service learning. PeopleSoft does not keep a permenant record of courses, and therefore, you need to check PeopleSoft every semester and make sure your course is designated as service learning as required, optional, or extra credit. A course must have the Service Learning designation in PeopleSoft in order to appear in the S4 Database.
Fill out the Service Learning Designation Form
Complete the Community-Engaged Learning Tool (CELT) Survey
If you are teaching a new service learning course OR it has been three years since the course was taught as a service learning course, you also need to complete CSU Community-Engaged Tool (CELT), a form designed for CSU faculty to identify where a course falls along the spectrum of Community Engaged Learning. Filling out the CELT every three years for a course is a mandate from the Chancellor's Office. It allows the Chancellor's Office to track the number of service learning course across the CSUs and it allows Service Learning Office at CSUSM to be able to annually report to the Chancellor's Office the number of service learning courses we sustain over time and new service learning course offerings each year, and whether we are meeting the targeted goals for the CSUS Strategic Planning for Service Learning.
The Community-Engaged Learning Tool (CELT) survey provides a series of questions based on the CSU-CEL Taxonomy: Classifying a Student — Centered Approach to Community-Engaged Learning Courses (.pdf). It is designed for CSU faculty to identify where a course falls along the spectrum of community-engaged learning. Check out the FAQs Faculty Guide.
Note: For each course, this form needs to be completed once every 3 years as long as you are not making significant changes in your approach to Service Learning. You can skip this step IF you have completed this survey within 3 years.