Service Learning Across Disciplines and Countries

Abstract- Moving local civic engagement across national borders has evolved into the concept of International Service Learning, which combines academic study, civic involvement and cultural emersion to give students a deeper, more meaningful global experience. A team of four faculty members from engineering, management and marketing disciplines designed an International Service Learning course (ISL) for a multi-disciplinary learning environment to enhance teamwork, critical thinking and real-world problem-solving capabilities of students in a global market involving the U.S.A. and Turkey. Students and their counterparts innovatively identified a defined business need in Manisa, Turkey, and then engaged in a grassroots civi