Peace Corps Prep
如果你有冒险精神,有强烈的个人动力去行动,并寻求沉浸在你自己以外的国家和文化中, 我们的和平队预备项目将帮助你获得跨文化技能,你需要一个改变生活的服务经验.
Peace Corps Prep 一个与学术合作的证书项目是否能帮助你培养作为志愿者产生积极影响所需的技能. 它可以帮助你在和平队或其他服务项目中成为更有力的候选人, and at the same time, you gain skills and a cultural worldview that employers value. 这是一种竞争优势,能让你脱颖而出,拓宽你的机会, no matter what path you choose.
Scroll down to the Student Guide section to learn more. 点击这里获取更多关于你的和平队服务机会的信息. 联系你的大学指导老师或招生代表,了解和平队预科如何适合你的本科学习.
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Immerse in a New Culture
Peace Corps is active in more than 70 countries on five continents.
So many choices!
Any major can take advantage of Peace Corps Prep. 向下滚动到本页的学生指南部分了解更多细节.
About Peace Corps
Peace Corps volunteers serve in more than 60 countries, doing grass-roots work that improves the lives of those they serve, as well as their own.
Peace Corps
Every day, 和平队志愿者——以及我们所有支持他们的人——每天醒来,努力工作,让世界变得更美好. Peace. It's the first word of who we are.
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At. St. Ambrose, your learning experience is focused on service and social justice, 这两个价值观深深融入了我们作为一所大学的使命和愿景. 这些价值观反映了美国和平队的起源和持续的精神, which is why this program is a great fit for many.
和平队预备课程为你提供了一个结构化的途径来磨练你的专业技能, intercultural competence, and foreign language abilities. 这与我们对服务学习和社会正义的关注以及您获得成长和发展服务生活的许多机会相吻合.
As a university, 我们galaxy银河娱乐场app,与和平队合作,认可学生的服务技能,具有巨大的价值, diversity/inclusion, and intercultural competence. 如果你决定提交志愿者申请,完成这个证书课程会有所帮助, but more importantly, it prepares you for a life of service, 以一种能显示你对他人和世界的奉献的方式生活.
为了获得由和平队颁发的证书,你需要参加一些课程来磨练你的跨文化能力, build your foreign language skills, and grow your professional and leadership abilities.
你还将完成某些课程(见下面的学生指南),并完成50小时的服务或工作,这些服务或工作与和平队确定的六个优先领域之一有关:
- Education: Teach lessons that last a lifetime. Education is the Peace Corp's largest program area. Volunteers play an important role in creating links among schools, parents, and communities by working in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools as math, science, conversational English, 和资源教师或作为早期阅读和读写教师培训师. Volunteers also develop libraries and technology resource centers
- Health: Serve on the front lines of global health. 健康志愿者在galaxy银河娱乐场app内开展工作,促进营养等重要议题, maternal and child health, basic hygiene, and water sanitation. 志愿者还参与艾滋病毒/艾滋病教育和预防项目,培训青少年成为同伴教育者, develop appropriate education strategies, provide support to children orphaned by the pandemic, 创建项目,为受疾病影响的家庭和galaxy银河娱乐场app提供情感和经济支持.
- Environment: Help forge a global movement to protect our planet. 志愿者在他们的galaxy银河娱乐场app中领导基层工作,保护环境,加强对环境问题的理解. 他们在中小学、青年团体和galaxy银河娱乐场app组织中教授环境意识, 授权galaxy银河娱乐场app自行决定如何保护和养护当地环境. 志愿者还通过促进自然资源的可持续利用来解决环境退化问题.
- Agriculture: Lead grassroots efforts to fight hunger in a changing world. 农业志愿人员与小农和家庭合作,提高粮食安全和产量,适应气候变化,同时促进环境保护措施. They introduce farmers to techniques that prevent soil erosion, reduce the use of harmful pesticides, and replenish the soil. 他们与农民一起进行综合项目,通常将蔬菜种植结合起来, livestock management, agroforestry, and nutrition education
- Youth In Development: Empower the next generation of change makers. 志愿者与galaxy银河娱乐场app的年轻人一起开展促进参与和积极公民意识的项目, including gender awareness, employability, health and HIV/AIDS education, environmental awareness, sports programs, and info technology.
- Community Economic Development: Harness 21st-century tools to help communities lift themselves. Volunteers work with development banks, nongovernmental organizations, 市政当局加强基础设施建设,鼓励galaxy银河娱乐场app创造经济机会. 他们经常在课堂上授课,并与企业家和企业主合作开发和销售他们的产品. 一些志愿者还教授基本的计算机技能,帮助galaxy银河娱乐场app利用电子商务等技术, distance learning, and more
SAU已经在我们的学术项目中提供了大量符合和平队预备要求的服务活动和课程, so in many cases, you can earn the certificate without adding extra courses. 该项目对所有本科生开放,无论你的专业或研究领域如何.
The Student Guide gives an overview to help with planning, which includes approved Peace Corps Prep courses you can take at SAU. Be sure to contact your faculty advisor, too. 他们将帮助你规划课程,并解释你满足项目要求的选择.
服务他人,让世界变得更美好是我们学生秉持的价值观, and our faculty and staff.
你想了解更多关于和平队服务的奖励、挑战和冒险吗? 证书课程如何帮助你成为一个更强的候选人和专业人士? How can service help you define your future goals?
以下是galaxy银河娱乐场app的教职员工,他们是回国和平队志愿者(RPCV),并在我们的和平队预备咨询委员会任职. 他们可以回答你的问题,告诉你他们改变人生的和平队经历.
Melissa Sharer, PhD
RPCV Armenia
Assistant Professor and Director, Master of Public Health
563-333-5768
SharerMelissaJ@gharsocho.com
Jenny Ferrell
RPCV Ghana
Administrative Assistant
563-333-6008
FerrellJenniferB@gharsocho.com
Argrow Kitnequa "Kit" Evans-Ford, DMin
RPCV St. Christopher and Nevis
Adjunct Professor of Theology
563-333-6442
Evansfordargrow@gharsocho.com
Rebecca Arnold
RPVC Madagascar
Adjunct Professor, MPH
ArnoldRebeccaM@gharsocho.com
So you're ready to get started with Peace Corps Prep? That's great!
You can complete the application on paper (pdf) or online.
如果在纸上完成申请,你还需要下载 Exit Checklist (pdf) and include it with your application.
Contact
Duk Kim
Coordinator, Peace Corps Prep
518 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA 52803
563-333-6169
KimDuk@gharsocho.com