Offered by St Michael's College & University of Toronto SMC One: Cornerstone
Integrate your university experience with work in the local community
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The SMC One: Cornerstone program is designed for first year students who want to integrate the pursuit of social justice into their university experience through collective and individual reflective learning.
The Justice, Culture and Community course will help you explore the theory, development and application of social justice from historical, sociological, political, philosophical, theological, artistic and psychological perspectives.
You will work with your classmates to implement service-learning projects in one of four different areas that best meets your personal and academic interests: Life and Health, Environment and the Earth, Politics and Society, or Thought and Culture.
Whether you are serving in a homeless shelter or long-term care facility, doing advocacy work for a local NGO or planting vegetables in a community garden, SMC One will allow you to reflect on major questions of meaning and value in the intersecting contexts of academic study, socially engaged experience and personal growth.
The Cornerstone program is sponsored by St Michael's College. The program and its courses are open to all students in the Faculty of Arts and Science.