Community Engaged Scholarship [SOC*6400]
Summary of CETL Component:
Throughout the course, graduate students developed knowledge, skills and values related to the principles and practices of community-engaged scholarship (CES). Working with one community partner (varies each semester), they applied their knowledge to develop a product to solve a problem brought forward by the community partner.
Department:
Sociology and Anthropology
Instructor:
Mavis Morton
Year Offered:
2017
Number of Students:
9
Academic Level:
Graduate
Level of Engagement:
Community-engaged learning
Sample of Community Partners:
CEL Assignment Structure:
Whole class project
Products:
Evaluation
Fact Sheet
Flyer
Literature Review
Presentation
Report
Toolkit
Course Description:
This graduate course focused on developing knowledge, skills and values related to the principles and practices of CES. Students reviewed, discussed and applied academic literature on CES and the scholarship of engagement in their collaboration with the community partner: Luke’s Place. They examined and applied the principles and best practices of community engagement and work on graduate learning outcomes including communication, critical thinking, collaboration, research and the mobilization of knowledge to issues related to violence against women and family law. They also participated in scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) research on community engaged learning.
CETL Resources Available:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Number of Community Partners:
Single
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