Community-Engaged Learning Course Tag
The CCE manages the CC community-engaged learning course tag, which tracks which courses offered at Colorado College use community-engaged learning pedagogy.
What is Community-Engaged Learning (CEL)?
Community-Engaged Learning is experiential education that simultaneously and equitably promotes student learning and addresses community needs. These courses aim to benefit both students and communities through:
- directing education toward the pursuit of co-creating solutions to complex social challenges and in so doing impacting the public good; and
- actively developing engaged citizenship knowledge, skills, and motivation to empower students to build the worlds they imagine.
Tag Your Course
If you teach or plan to teach a community-engaged learning course at CC, please apply for a course tag so that we can tag your course in the course schedule.
The application link below will take you to the CC Summit site. Please use your CC ID to log in. Questions about the tag or application? Email Dr. Jordan Travis Radke, CCE Director, at jradke@coloradocollege.edu.
Frequently Asked Questions
The following criteria are the core, essential aspects of community-engaged learning pedgagy.
- The course incorporates an experience or project that interacts with, and benefits, communities beyond the campus. This community component might include an experience that seeks to address a mutually-defined community need and/or a research project that seeks to co-create solutions to complex social challenges. Please see the "Types of Community Engaged Learning on the Block" for additional ideas.
- Community-engaged work is an integral component of the course, enhancing and enhanced by knowledge from the curriculum. The course provides structured opportunities for students to learn from the experience, and academic assessment incorporates learning from community experience.
Tagging your course enables the CCE to:
- Promote engaged teaching through publicizing CEL courses to students in addition to institutionalizing incentives for students to enroll in CEL courses.
- Honor and celebrate engaged teaching by sharing course models and outcomes through CCE networks as well as campus-wide and off-campus publications.
- Share CEL courses as models to targeted, interested faculty to promote and enhance the use of the CEL pedagogy.
- Enable us to gather data on faculty interests, partnerships, and projects so that we can share opportunities and resources (conferences, articles, awards) as well as make connections (between faculty, staff, students, and partners) in a targeted fashion.
- Gather data on existing partnerships in an effort to inform a strategic process of partnership development - deepening existing partnerships and identifying gaps.
- Gather more input on how we can better support faculty moving forward.
- Community-engaged experiences are co-created, designed, and implemented by professors and community partners, co-guided by both learning goals and community-driven needs.
- The coursework and experience aim to equip students with engaged citizenship skills, knowledge and identity development to build their capacity to influence the common good - both during their undergraduate experience and throughout their lives.
- If you need a thought partner in designing your course or applied assignment, please reach out to CCE Director Dr. Jordan Travis Radke at jradke@coloradocollege.edu.
- If you need support in brainstorming and connecting to community partners for your course, please reach out to CCE Community Partnerships Coordinator Niki Sosa Gallegos at nsosa@coloradocollege.edu.
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Interested, but not sure how to do it on the block plan?
True, community-engaged learning does look a little different on the block plan. But, luckily we have many resident experts (CC faculty) who have creatively imagined ways to adapt the pedagogy to a condensed-format, immersive curriculum.
Below, you'll find seven forms of community-engaged learning that work on the block!
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