“The Philadelphia Center faculty and staff provided me with the steady support I needed to function in a drastically new environment, while simultaneously pushing me to see the world through a wider lens. The confidence I gained through my experiences in Philadelphia allowed me to overcome my fear of the unknown—opening wide the doors of the world.”
Abigail Stonerook, Kalamazoo College
Fall 2004
Women Organized Against Rape, Crisis Intervention Intern
Programmatic Standards
Students will be awarded academic credit only for college-level learning. This learning will demonstrate a conceptual as well as a practical grasp of the knowledge and/or skill acquired in the three learning contexts of field placement, city seminar, and city living, and will be applicable in other learning contexts as well.
Students are expected to achieve the following:
- An understanding of experiential learning and the ability to apply academic subject matter to the field placement and city living experience
- An expanded sense of independence, competence, confidence, and resourcefulness; and a realization and appreciation of one’s proactive role as a citizen-participant in relation to local and global communities
- A critical examination of one’s prior experience, knowledge, attitudes, and values in relation to people who come from backgrounds and experiences different from one’s own
- Knowledge of what an organization does in relation to its mission, how it achieves its goals, and how it functions in its economic, social, and/or political context
- The development and acquisition of work-based, city seminar, and personal skills, values, and knowledge