Location
MD204, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University
Start Date
29-5-2015 1:30 PM
End Date
29-5-2015 2:40 PM
Description
Since 2007, "Chung-Yuan Advertising and Design Service" has served more than 40 non-profit organizations. It is formed by the students and university faculty from three different departments- Business Administration, Commercial Design and Electronic Engineer in Chung-Yuan Christian University. Working like an advertising company, the students work in groups from different disciplines and provide service of marketing and graphic design, like youtube clip, logo, promotion campaign and tv commercial clip. The program was started by three faculty members who have same vision. The aims of the course include helping the students to apply theories in practice, building up their communication and teamwork skill and learning to pay attention to social issues. The program have faced so many obstacles and difficulties which include the students' communication problems between different discipline, students wrong expectation for the program, students' negative reaction when encountering practical project, the communication problem with NPOs being served, and very limited financial resource available. The experience has also taught the faculty how to help the students and work with the N POs. Moreover, a research has also been done to explore the students' development of resilience in the program. The result has shown that the students have experienced a great deal of difficulties, emotional turmoil and even ideas to withdraw throughout the process of service delivery, as it is similar to working in the real world context. Social support seems to help easing the negative emotions and reluctance while peer encouragements providing comfort to restore confidence. As the results of solving problems and managing stress throughout the process, the students have demonstrated at end of the course their increase of resilience through the following: (1) they were able to internally transform negative emotions to positive learning forces; (2) instead of blaming external factors, they have reflected on themselves and learned from the experience; (3) they have more empathy towards other members of the group; (4) they acquire better communication skills; (5) their self-esteem has boosted.
Recommended Citation
Ting, P.-Y. (2015, May). Working with difference: A model of interdisciplinary service learning program in Taiwan. Paper presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Love Journey: Community Engagement through Service-Learning, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
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Working with difference : a model of interdisciplinary service learning program in Taiwan
MD204, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University
Since 2007, "Chung-Yuan Advertising and Design Service" has served more than 40 non-profit organizations. It is formed by the students and university faculty from three different departments- Business Administration, Commercial Design and Electronic Engineer in Chung-Yuan Christian University. Working like an advertising company, the students work in groups from different disciplines and provide service of marketing and graphic design, like youtube clip, logo, promotion campaign and tv commercial clip. The program was started by three faculty members who have same vision. The aims of the course include helping the students to apply theories in practice, building up their communication and teamwork skill and learning to pay attention to social issues. The program have faced so many obstacles and difficulties which include the students' communication problems between different discipline, students wrong expectation for the program, students' negative reaction when encountering practical project, the communication problem with NPOs being served, and very limited financial resource available. The experience has also taught the faculty how to help the students and work with the N POs. Moreover, a research has also been done to explore the students' development of resilience in the program. The result has shown that the students have experienced a great deal of difficulties, emotional turmoil and even ideas to withdraw throughout the process of service delivery, as it is similar to working in the real world context. Social support seems to help easing the negative emotions and reluctance while peer encouragements providing comfort to restore confidence. As the results of solving problems and managing stress throughout the process, the students have demonstrated at end of the course their increase of resilience through the following: (1) they were able to internally transform negative emotions to positive learning forces; (2) instead of blaming external factors, they have reflected on themselves and learned from the experience; (3) they have more empathy towards other members of the group; (4) they acquire better communication skills; (5) their self-esteem has boosted.