ABSTRACT
Currently, the characteristics of social care and hard work among students are in decline. One method that can be used to develop such characteristics in students is Service Learning (SL). SL is a learning method that combines lecture materials with the problems that exist in the community: students apply the knowledge they have acquired in lectures to help solve problems in the community. This method is employed in a Natural Resource Management (NRM) course. This study aims to describe the development of the hard work and social care characteristics through the implementation of SL in this course. This research uses qualitative and quantitative methods, with 76 student participants from the NRM course as subjects. Data is collected using observation, questionnaire, and documentation techniques. The results show that through the application of SL activities in NRM courses, social care and hard work characteristics can be developed in students. This is because students are dealing directly with the problems that exist in the community and they can solve them by direct application of the knowledge they have gained in the classroom.
