Health and Social Services Management Programme (HSSM)
Service-Learning for Integrating Knowledge and Practice
What is Service Learning?
Service Learning@Lingnan celebrates the marriage of rigorous academic study and impactful projects that benefit local and global communities . Through Service Learning, students will gain a deeper understanding of course content , a broader appreciation of the discipline , and an enhanced sense of global citizenship . Service Learning allows liberal arts students to put their interdisciplinary training into practice and sharpen their problem solving skills by tackling the challenges of the 21st century.
Health and Social Service Project (HSM4002)
Health and Social Service Project (HSM4002) provides an opportunity for final year students to apply class room knowledge to a work setting. Students will have a 40-hour work experience in a wide range of health and social service organizations. They will have an academic supervisor and an agency supervisor to support their work placement. Former students had their service-learning in the following organizations for serving young people, older people, immigrants and deprived social groups:
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Social Service-Hong Kong
- Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service
- Caritas-Hong Kong
- International Social Service
- Health in Action
- Urban Peacemaker
- Evangelistic Fellowship
- Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres
- Lingnan University - Chinese Medicine Clinic
- Lingnan University - Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing project
- International Music Therapy Centre (IMTC)
- Yan Oi Tong
- N.T. Women & Juveniles Welfare Association
- Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Identify and analyze a health and social care issue from theoretical and practical perspectives.
- Familiarize with the nature of health and social care institutions and their work.
- Exercise appropriate judgement in planning, designing and implementing relevant research approaches, critically interpret data, and present findings clearly.
- Independently produce a well-organized report with coherent arguments based on either empirical data or current literature.
Positive Comments made by students who completed this course:
- 「可以實際了解到音樂治療對中風病人喺復康及認知上有幫助。」
- 「可以同到阿富汗的同事進行會議，可以了解到其他地方發生的事情，機會很難得；而且ISS是一個國際性組織，規模很大，所以在裏面可以訓練到自己做事或者想事情會用到宏觀看法而非只是用微觀想法。」
- 「學到樂齡科技不同主題的東西，認識不同科技產品如何幫到長者老年生活，以及如何用一個適合的語速去和長者交流。知道更多樂齡科技的趨勢，讓長者可以利用這些科技產品去居家安老。」
- “I am grateful to HSM4002 Health Service Project for providing me with the opportunity to undertake an internship, and Health in Action was willing to recruit me as a result. I am currently employed as a Community Health Officer at Sham Shui Po District Health Centre, which is run by St' James Settlement, and this role is relevant to the internship that I completed.”