Service Leadership Minor

Service Leadership is feeling that one wants to serve first, before one aspires to lead. Christ is the ultimate example of a servant leader. “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45.

The mission of the Service Leadership minor at Waynesburg University is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge, skills, and abilities so that they may faithfully transform their communities and the world. Students are prepared to be engaged citizens who live a life of servant leadership and purpose of the glory of God.

The mission of the minor program in Service Leadership at Waynesburg University will be fulfilled when our students

• utilize service experiences as laboratories for the learning of courses in their academic major programs;
• engage in substantive research that makes connections between students’ service activities and their vocations;
• think and write critically about the complex network out of which substantial American and international social problems arise (such as poverty, homelessness and/or inadequate housing, hunger, and illiteracy);
• relate these problems to the Biblical theological ethics that mandate a humane response to individual and community symptoms and systemic causes;
• participate in the process of social and political change to alleviate the personal and corporate;
• proposed potential solutions to social issues at the local, national, and/or global scale; effects of these problems at local, regional, national, and /or global levels; and
• develop career interests in the non-profit and public sectors aimed at socio-economic and racial justice.

Mission/Service Courses

Students are required to complete a minimum of 90 service hours. These hours must include a combination of:

At least one (1) credits of:

At least one (1) credits of SLR 155/255/355/455 – one must be at the 355/455 level.

At least one (1) credit capstone project:

Students may elect to take this course for 1 credit only in conjunction with another research or project in their major program. If not taken with another senior research or project course, the Service Leadership Project requires enrollment for 3 credit hours.

Service Leadership Skills

Three (3) credits from the following are required:

Social Change Cognate

Nine (9) credits from the following recommended courses:

Students must take courses from at least two discipline areas. These courses may already be a part of the student’s general education course requirements and/or major.

There are 15-17 credits required for this minor.