L A 113 P: Instructing Males through Peer Advising Course Tracks (IMPACT) - Fall 2015 Syllabus

This course is designed to enhance college student engagement and academic achievement by offering active and experiential learning opportunities through near peer advising and service learning. Servicelearning courses involve reflection as well as action and combines community work with classroom instruction and course requirements (Schutz & Gere, 1998), and to that end we propose to create a service learning course (IMPACT) that will engage and connect undergraduate students who attend the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) to Latino and African American male youth at the middle school and high school levels in the Central Texas community through near peer advising and mentoring (Schmidt & Moust, 1995).