Students enrolled in this program will complete six (6) courses and 270 hours of community service over the next four years. The 30 hours required in the first year program and 100 hours required of all students in the senior year are included in the 270 total hours. The courses included in this Certificate Program include: a Reflective Tutorial in the First Year Learning Community, a service-learning course, a course in domestic poverty, a course in international exposure or study abroad, and a Senior Reflective Tutorial in your major. All these courses will count toward the 36 units needed for graduation.

All students are required to finish 270 hours throughout their 4 years at Wagner College. The hours will be divided as so: 70 hours as a first year student, 100 hours during their Sophomore and Junior year (or summer), and 100 hours as a senior. The students involved in this program will be expected to have developed a leadership role in an organization in the community. In order to obtain the certificate at the point of graduation, students must choose particular courses in the categories below: 

A. Lead in Course:  Psychology/Sociology

    ___ RFT-first year reflective tutorial

    ___ 30 hours of experiential learning (to be completed by the end of the semester)

    ___ 40 hours of experiential learning (to be completed by 2nd semester or summer)

B.  Service Learning Course:

    ___ History/Sociology: Connecting Families Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Service Learning Course

    ___ 40 hours of experiential learning

C. Domestic Poverty; All students are requirement to take one of the following courses that are related to their major/minor courses:

    ___ Economics 313 Labor Economics and Industrial Relations

    ___ Economics 414 Economics of Discrimination

    ___ History 282 Working Stiffs and Welfare Moms: labor in the Modern World

    ___ Sociology 276 Employment, Education, Household and Gender 

    ___ Nursing 351 Dimension of Health Promotion in the Community

    ___ Politics 314 The Politics of Urban Policy Development

    ___ Sociology 103 (D): American Society and Its Social Problems 

    ___ Sociology 302: the Urbanized Society 

    ___ Sociology 315 (D): Social Stratification

D. International Exposure: All students are requirement to take one of the following courses that are related to their major/minor courses. However, students may study abroad as an alternative.

     ___ Study Aboard (I)

     ___ Economic 412 (D): Economic Development -Third World

     ___ English 111 (W)(I):World Literature

     ___ English 314 (I) Post-colonial Literature

     ___ History 330 (I) Imperialism and it's Legacy

     ___ MDS 104: Challenges of a Society - Global Perspective

     ___ Politics 251L International Politics

     ___ Politics 246 (I): Comparative Politics in the Third World

     ___ Politics/History 231 (I): History and the Politics of East Asia

     ___ Politics/history242 (I): African History and Politics

     ___ Politics/History 247 (I): History and the Politics of Latin America

     ___ Politics/History 356 (I): Middle Eastern History and Politics

     ___ Politics/History 350: International Political Economy

     ___ Spanish 113 (D): Hybrid Nations - Hispanic Culture and Civilization

E. Other Experiential Learning -  To be completed during Sophomore and Junior years     

     ___ 100 hours of experiential learning (may be done during the summer)

F. Senior Capstone: Senior Reflective Tutorial (RFT) in the major

    ___ Senior RFT

    ___ 100 hours of experiential learning

    ___ Portfolio is due (maintained during the program documenting your service in the community and linking

           your experience with your course themes