Why add a community-based learning component to your course?
- Deepens learning/engagement with the academic content.
- Fosters a civic engagement mindset, and personal and social responsibility.
- Encourages students to clarify their purpose and values.
- Provides students with firsthand knowledge of community needs and opportunities to be more involved in collaborating to solve challenges in surrounding communities.
- Leads to new avenues for research and publication.
Three key elements of community-based learning:
- Facilitated by mutually beneficial engagement between community groups, students, and instructors.
- Fosters deeper engagement with learning and builds capacity of the community groups.
- Includes critical reflection which encourages students to examine their purpose while exploring solutions to improve the human condition.
How does CBL support faculty?
- Workshops and communities of practice
- Connections with community organizations
- Customized consultations
- Information on best practices and risk management planning
- Reflection materials for community service activities.
- Tools for understanding how to work effectively with community partners.
- Creating course proposals or community-based learning curriculum.
- Connecting with community partners
CBL team members are eager to help you design your community-based learning classes. Schedule a time with Dr. Sarah Brackmann using this link.
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