What: Curated Course Structures and Components
About this PublicationFull Courses & Syllabi
- Course Design Blueprint, created by Maine Campus Compact for the Fusion Course, to “map out how you plan to integrate community-based learning into your online course and will help you design a community-based project.” (pdf in folder)
- Campus Compact hosts a Syllabi Archive for community engaged courses. You can filter this archive by Discipline, Types of Instruction, Institution Type, Service Type, and Issue Area. To filter the archive, you will need to scroll down to see these options in the bar that runs along the left side of this page.
Assignments & Lesson Plans
- Civic Agency Workshops. A “series of experiential workshops…organized into the three themes—Self, Us, and Now—following Marshall Ganz’s public narrative framework.”
- Bonner Program Curriculum “to help students develop knowledge, skills, and values to engage in community well-being and social change efforts. On their 8 Themes Curriculum page, scroll down and click on the underlined topics that interest you.
- Reflection models. (More reflection resources available in the “Linking Academic and Community Learning”)
- Anatomy of an Ally Toolkit. This toolkit can be used with students to explore motivations for community engagement, reflect on them, and use those reflections to inform opportunities for growth. (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
Other Resources
- Curriculum Collaboration Project Proposal. Template for outline mutual understandings and expectations for collaboration on a proposed project in a class.
- Sam Fox Office for Socially Engaged Practice Blue Pages “outline effective practices for working with individuals, communities, and organizations on social engaged projects.” They cover topics like,
- Using Community Capitals to Develop Assets for Positive Community Change
- Building and Maintaining Partnerships. This site covers many different considerations and also provides concrete tools. To start exploring, begin by reading the overview page , but be sure to click on the “Guides” link and anything else that interests you. (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
- A Guide to Reciprocal Community-Campus Partnerships (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
Curated General Resources
The following organizations are engaged in ongoing work on campus and community collaborations, including conferences, online resources, podcasts, and webinars.Read
- Campus Compact
- Bonner Foundation
- AAC&U Civic Prompts: Civic Learning in the Major by Design
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- Imagining America
- International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
Listen
- Campus Compact Podcast https://compact.org/podcast/
Watch
- Campus Compact's YouTube channel has recordings of their 2020 Virtual Conference Sessions and recordings of previous webinars
- Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19
Experience
This page has paths:
- Community Engaged Courses Emily Stenberg
