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Our Definition of Community Engagement
Community-engaged learning combines the creative capacities of students, faculty, and community partners, equally, in pursuit of the public good. Community engagement experiences for students can range from specific class assignments to volunteering with local organizations to immersive internship experiences and more. Community-engaged scholarship, a closely related concept, provides a framework for creating new scholarly knowledge through co-authorship involving faculty, student, and community partners. The greatest hope for this type of learning is the cultivation of a healthier and more just democracy. For all those involved, it promotes active learning and helps in the development of civic skills rooted in humility, integration, reflection, and impact orientation.
Program Highlight
SEPA focuses on engaging students in community development through grant writing as an entrepreneurial endeavor, teaching technical aspects of grant writing and providing hands-on grant writing experience with a local nonprofit agency over the summer.
Finish in Four*
with the skills to launch your career
Be the change
you want to see in the world knowing that you have honed your communication, critical thinking, quantitative and collaboration skills. As a graduate you will be poised to take on your first job with the knowledge that you can confidently:
- convey through written and oral presentations the pressing issues and solutions for an organization;
- effectively work with peers to address challenges and issues within non-profit organizations that strengthen the organization when resolved; and
- analyze sources of power within public affairs/the policy making process
Explore our Graduate Outcomes to learn more about what our graduates are doing today.
Meet our Faculty
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Popular Courses
- Introduction to Sociology
- Fundamentals of Public Health
- Environmental Psychology
- Intercultural Communication
- Non-Profit Accounting
- Public Policy
- Community Leadership