Immersions
Specifically, each immersion expands students’ experience with solidarity in the following ways:
- Culturally: students will increase their awareness, engagement, and humility in the culture of their respective immersion.
- Educational: participants will examine the various social factors through a variety of perspectives, histories, and realities.
- Spiritually-driven: participants will explore a culture of spirituality through faith and values conversations with their peers and within the respective immersion communities.
Relevant Social Justice issues: applying Catholic Social Teaching and other social justice theories to examine food justice (Salinas), indigenous peoples (Montana), and homeless youth (Los Angeles).
Here is what previous immersion students have said:
“Service is a way to express the importance of human life. It is never for “saving” someone, but rather meeting someone how they want to be met.”
“I have realized human interaction is solely based on open mindedness and love. It is so human to love…”
“I actually wanted more...”
“Happiest I have been during my time at Saint Mary’s”
“[It was great] talking to people who are exactly like us...but find themselves in different situations with no control over them”