Abstract

Academic service-learning can be an effective and successful educational tool across many disciplines. The benefits afforded students and the community they serve are reciprocal in nature, thereby providing service to the community and capitalizing on a real-world learning environment for the students. Agricultural communications programs can offer for service-learning opportunities within the academic arena. The Campaign Planning for Agricultural and Natural Resources course at Oklahoma State University captures the essence of service-learning and provides students with an opportunity to use knowledge gained in previous courses to develop usable communications campaigns for small businesses or organizations. This case study should serve as a starting point for service-learning research in agricultural communications.

Keywords: Service, Leaerning, Agricultural, Natural Resources, Communications course, Case Study, research, Undergraduate, students.

How to Cite:

Kelemen, D. B., Cartmell, D. D., II & Sitton, S. P., (2009) “Service Learning: A Case Study in an Agricultural Communications Course”, Journal of Applied Communications 93(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/1051-0834.1195