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CBL Course Snapshots for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
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Community-Based Learning (CBL) is a high-impact, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers students as agents of social change. It builds skills in collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership by linking classroom learning to real-world issues and lived experience.
For faculty, CBL fosters innovation, reflective teaching, and meaningful community engagement. It draws on student creativity and civic passion while grounding course design in equity and relevance.
As educators, CBL helps us connect academic content to the social realities that shape our students’ lives and communities.
Fall 2024
This (viewable to С»Æ贫ý) includes CBL snapshots of an array of student engagement experiences in Fall 2024, facilitated by instructors in Environmental Studies, Biology, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Multimedia, and Sociology, in collaboration with a wide variety of local community partners. As quotes from student reflections attest, students are eager to make a difference in their communities and enthusiastic about putting course content in action, and these real-world applications, using multiple modes of learning, have transformative effects on student learning, civic participation and future goals.Â
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Courses with community-based learning (CBL) provide students with the opportunity to: explore local, national, and/or global issues; broaden their perspectives and enhance critical thinking skills; and become active citizens through community engagement. There are numerous courses that have CBL projects every term!