Faculty members using a Community Based Learning/Reserach pedagogy may apply to have their course tagged in the course catalogue. The description in the catalogue reads: "Community Based Learning (CBL) is experiential education that promotes student learning and meets community needs. Courses with a "CBL" notation include the intention of equipping students with the skills, knowledge and experience to exercise influence toward social, cultural, environmental or civic outcomes that benefit the common good. This applies whether the impact is immediate or deferred. Please contact the faculty member listed to learn more about the CBL component of this course."
Please contact Kira Pasquesi or Sarah Hautzinger to apply. Interested faculty submit a syllabus and short response to how their course meets each of the five criteria for CBL at Colorado College as shown below. This is a rolling application process, but know courses are sent to the Registrar by early March for the following year.
Criteria for Determining a Community Based Learning (CBL)
Tag in the Course Catalogue
- Knowledge from the discipline enhances understanding of the community experience and the community experience enhances understanding of the relevance and applicability of the academic content.
- Academic credit is given for the learning and its relation to the course, not for the community experience/research alone.
- The intent of CBL experiences, while guided by professors, also takes shape through interactions and synthesis with community issues, concerns or needs.
- CBL instruction includes the intention of equipping students with the skills, knowledge and experience to exercise influence toward more social, cultural, environmental or civic outcomes that benefit the common good. This applies whether the impact is immediate or deferred.
- Activities in the class provide methods for students to reflect systematically and with intention about what they learned through the CBL experience, and how that experience relates to the course’s focus.