Pros and Cons of Service Learning Locations

I think service learning is something that everyone should experience sometime in his or her life, even if it’s only once. There are many different reasons that people may or may not want to incorporate service learning into a college course. Should college classes and professors require a person to do service learning especially when it’s a class like English where the two don’t correspond too much together?
One argument for having service learning in college courses would be that it’s an excellent way to introduce students into volunteer work and guiding them on the way. Most students don’t know much about volunteering and even if they have an idea, they aren’t sure where to start looking. Another argument for service learning would be that when students write papers their topics and main ideas can be on something that’s from their location with first hand experience. Lastly, service learning looks excellent on any resume when you’re trying to find a job and may influence students to do more volunteer work if they want their resume to look outstanding. It could actually be the breaker between choosing you over another person for the job.
A major argument for not including service learning into college courses is that it doesn’t have much to do with the actual course itself, especially an English class. English courses are trying to help students learn how to enhance their writing and a service learning location doesn’t seem to work into that very well. Another argument against service learning is that it can be tough to find a location that’s within a reasonable distance from where the student lives. Most students don’t have cars during school or even if they do it’s pretty expensive for gas, which means they would have to walk. As a final point, a lot of students are very busy as it is and to add in extra time to walk there and do the volunteer work only adds more stress to their life.
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