Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
Small cohorts
Limited to 15 students with priority given to public health students and AHEC Scholars
Graduate Level
Open to all new and continuing Graduate-level students; Upper level undergraduate students
Meets requirements
Service Learning and Community Engagement
Border Health
Grab your passport and prepare for a binational, bicultural experience. Explore the role of public health advocacy in globalization, migration and health.
Community Engagement
Collaboratively respond to health disparities encountered by disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Learn along side different communities such as urban, rural, homeless, veterans, border region, immigrants, and farmworkers through community-based engagement and experiential learning in collaboration with the Primary Prevention Mobile Health Unit, and Street Medicine.
Climate Health
Through this immersion with community organizations serving the needs of small and rural communities in Southeastern Arizona, students will explore environmental health and the health issues related to climate, agriculture, and mining through an environmental justice perspective.
Family and Child Health in Urban Settings
Explore current health and social policy and programs affecting families and children as you are immersed in the diverse organizations and communities that reflect the US-Mexico borderlands. This course focuses on food access, nutrition, mutual aid, and school and community gardens as challenges and assets to promote well-being.
MILAGRO
Participate in humanitarian response(s) to address migration in the borderlands of Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico. Students will have the opportunity to learn from interprofessional faculty across the health sciences and community partners.
Not offered 2025-2026