Bucknell In Northern Ireland -- Community Organization Placements

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Community Organization Placements

Each student in the Program is assigned to work two days per week in a community organization devoted to some aspect of the peace process, including conflict resolution, reconciliation, and the like. This is the service-learning component of the Program, which means that students are expected both to learn about the work of their organizations, and to complete a project that is of some benefit to the organization. These projects can take many forms, including the production of public artworks, consultation about organizational aims, projects, and technical needs, and multimedia productions, just to name a few.

Jack Sheehan and Jennifer Wrigley with Kevin Hasson, William Kelly, and Tom Kelly (Bogside Artists) under the sign they designed and produced, Bogside Artists' Studio, Bogside, Derry, 2002.

Every effort is made to assign students to organizations that fit with their backgrounds, interests, and learning objectives. In order to do this, we ask that you fill out a copy of the Placement Survey, and return it with your other application materials to Prof. Flack.

Meredith Miller and Whitney Nash enjoy beverages at the Verbal Arts Centre's Café, 2003.

A partial list of community organizations in which students were placed during earlier Program:

The Bogside Artists
Columba House
Old Library Trust
The Nerve Centre
Holywell Trust
Peace and Reconciliation Group
Altnagelvin Hospital
Stradreagh Hospital
Oakgrove Integrated School
Ebrington Trust
Verbal Arts Centre

Jake Milofsky and Josh Cuppett working on website construction with staff members at The Nerve Centre, Derry, 2002.