Below table shows examples of learning and service objectives of specific disciplines:
Discipline | Service-Learning Activities | Service Objectives | Learning Objectives |
Marketing / Business Administration | Students make plans and strategies to help an organic farming NGO incorporate its local community-building efforts into its larger brand identity | Branding Strategies, effective use of social and traditional media | Increase awareness of the challenges of local small business and community building resources |
Medicine / Nursing / Pharmacy | Students organize medication safety workshops in community elderly service center and provide simple drug consultation service | Gain and improve presentation skills, and patient communication skills. | Improve the elders’ awareness toward medication safety, and using medication as instructed by doctor and pharmacist. |
Communication / Public Relation | Students create a promotion campaign for adopting stray dogs and cats | Practicing writing, presentation, and research skills, applying public theories and concepts | Increasing the awareness and adoptions of stray dogs and cats |
Cultural Management / History | Student interview and document the life story of former Gurkhas and present the history of Nepalese in Hong Kong, and the contributions of ethnic minority in Hong Kong. | The course can address how to investigate and represent local community history and stories through the methodologies of SL, participant observation, ethnographic research, and oral history. | Address the past contribution and increase the awareness of ethnic minority groups in Hong Kong and ease the stereotype of them being a burden in society. |