Human Development, a course offered at Portland Community College, incorporates service-learning as an option for students to witness and work with the developmental issues that arise for various populations. Professor Gary Lesniak has established relationships with over 100 social service agencies from which students may select, or they may choose their own placement site. Depending on their placement, students may interact with anyone from infants to seniors, giving them new perspective not only on the psychological issues that confront these populations, but on the ways in which social service agencies actually apply psychological theory.
