Service Learning
Key
- Bronze Experience (1 credit hour)
- Silver Experience (3 credit hours)
- Gold Experience (6 credit hours)
Experiences
- participated in Spring Break 2016 Global Brigades Business Brigade trip to Panama
Reflection
This experience was carried out with the organization Global Brigades during Spring Break in 2017 in which I specifically participated with the first ever Business Brigade at UMBC. During this experience, I assisted local communities by assisting in business and financial literacy as well as improving their business by understanding how their communities behave and react to various business models.
This service experience has successfully contributed to the program-wide learning objectives of perspectivism, realistic vision, being a team member, persistence, and flexibility. Regarding perspectivism, this service experience allowed me to fairly consider the ethical perspectives of different cultures by challenging me to make business decisions for a new and foreign culture. Furthermore, this ability also falls under the realm of developing a realistic vision due to the immense presence of diversity in the field of reverse engineering the brain. By further developing this valuable skill, the ability to become a more productive team member increases due to the increase in the ability to fairly consider opinions from all perspectives. Finally, the learning objectives of persistence and flexibility are also affected since working with diverse cultures where the there is often a prominent language barrier increases ones flexibility and persistence in dealing with difficult situations.
This service experience has successfully contributed to the program-wide learning objectives of perspectivism, realistic vision, being a team member, persistence, and flexibility. Regarding perspectivism, this service experience allowed me to fairly consider the ethical perspectives of different cultures by challenging me to make business decisions for a new and foreign culture. Furthermore, this ability also falls under the realm of developing a realistic vision due to the immense presence of diversity in the field of reverse engineering the brain. By further developing this valuable skill, the ability to become a more productive team member increases due to the increase in the ability to fairly consider opinions from all perspectives. Finally, the learning objectives of persistence and flexibility are also affected since working with diverse cultures where the there is often a prominent language barrier increases ones flexibility and persistence in dealing with difficult situations.