Community-Engaged Learning

Applicable for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Community-Engaged Learning Website

Advisor; RADKE

What is Community-Engaged Learning (CEL)?

Most fundamentally, a community-engaged learning (CEL) course promotes student learning and community impact.  Practically, CEL courses include collaborations with community partners* for applied projects, assignments, or experiences that aim to help students learn course content and benefit communities beyond the academy.  Currently, community-engaged learning courses are opportunities for students to enrich their classroom learning experience, rather than a requirement of majors, minors, or the general education curriculum. 

*Partners include mission-centered organizations such as non-profits or grassroots organizations, government agencies, or social enterprises; or community leaders and changemakers.

Why should students take CEL courses?

√ Enhanced Learning: Engaging, applied projects and experiences deepen students' understanding of the subject matter, cultivates skills such as problem-solving and analysis, and helps students learn the public relevance of academic disciplines. 
√ Personal Development: Students learn about themselves, including their identities, capacities and commitments. 
√ Civic Development: Students learn how to translate knowledge into personal, civic, and social action, and gain insight into their own theories of change.
√ Career Development: CEL courses support students' discernment of their career paths, and students gain relevant skills and professional experience.
√ Social Development: Students build relationships with people beyond the campus and have the opportunity to cultivate social skills and skills of engaging across difference.

 

The Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Course Tag

To see upcoming community-engaged learning courses in which you may enroll, log in to Banner and go to "Class Schedule."  Once you have selected a term, you may use the drop-down menu for the "type" of class to search for "community-engaged learning" courses.

You may find more detailed information about CEL classes, including community partners and descriptions of course collaborations, at this community-engaged learning course list on the CCE website. 

 

Questions? Please email CCE Director, Dr. Jordan Travis Radke, at jradke@coloradocollege.edu.

 

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