In service learning courses and practicum courses, you’ll use knowledge and skills acquired in your class to meet genuine community needs.

You must apply to enroll for most of these courses. To receive permission to enroll, you may just need to email the instructor for approval or you may need to submit an application or be interviewed.

Instructions for enrolling in a service-learning course will appear in the description of that course in the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes.

Our current service-learning course:

PSY-X 370 Real-World Program Evaluation: Applying Psychology Research to Service

Enrolled students volunteer at either Middleway House or The Rise (which provide transitional housing and programs). The class will consider the needs of the groups served by Middleway/Rise and evaluate the quality of programs and interventions for those groups.

You can also explore the Service-Learning Program at Indiana University.

We will no longer offer the in house practicum, previously known as X476, Practicum in Psychology as of Summer 2025. However, students can still complete volunteer, community-based experiences and these can still count towards the applied learning requirement in the Clinical Science BS major. All of the previous practicum sites will continue to offer volunteer internship opportunities and will gladly accept PBS students for a semester or longer to shadow, observe, and engage in the same activities that were offered through X476. 

We are currently in the process of setting up our current partners with the Walter Center, so that students can be connected to the same community practicum sites that were previously offered through X476. Students can complete these internships and enroll in the X373 or X374 classes offered through the Walter Center to gain course credit towards the applied learning experience or general course credits required for all majors. More information about these classes, how to set up your internship site to count for credit, and what the class will entail can be found here.