Business and Entrepreneurial Studies (BUS)
African American and Ethnic Studies (AAES)
Life, Ecological, and Physical Sciences (LEP)
Literature and Humanities (HUM)
• The mini-courses are 4 weeks long and typically meet at least once per week over the internet. Courses may also include web-based asynchronous informational videos accessed.
• Each course includes a college type syllabus that outlines student requirements, including assignments, goals and objectives, and provided readings. Each course is designed in such a way to minimize interference with students’ regular academic work.
• All courses are designed and taught by higher education faculty, content experts and education specialists.
• ETL Education Foundation is strongly rooted in community service and believes that education is a means of community empowerment. Students have responsibilities to not only use newfound knowledge and insight for personal growth but also in service of others. Therefore, each four-week course is followed by a service component.
• During this period students meet with advisors to explore, and plan ways they can use the concepts, skills, and knowledge gained from the academic component to serve the community and their peers. Students identify major course themes and relate them to problems or community experiences they would like to address. Students select, propose, and plan a project designed to address an identified problem.
• Students develop proposals and apply for monies from the VUI service-learning fund to carry out the project. VUI advisors provide counsel and support throughout all phases of development and implementation of the service project.
