community engagement

Learning Outcomes for CE Classes

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Learning Outcomes for CE Classes

Several courses at UMW have been designated as “community-engaged” or “CE”. These courses require a minimum of 10 hours of work within the community. These courses also require reflection on the service learning or community involvement component. A current list of community-engaged (CE) classes is provided here.

The requirements and learning outcomes of these classes are the following:

UMW students help measure and create a rendering of one of two slave houses at Buffalo Forge, a historic plantation near Glasgow, Virginia.
UMW students help measure and create a rendering of houses of people who were enslaved at Buffalo Forge, a historic plantation near Glasgow, Virginia.
  • All CE courses must involve 10 hours of engagement with the community as well as reflection.
  • All CE courses  must meet the following 3 outcomes:
    • Analysis of Knowledge: Connects and extends knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one’s own academic study/ field/ discipline to community engagement and to one’s own participation in community life, politics, and government.
    • Identity/Commitment: Provides evidence of experience in community-engagement activities and describes what one has learned about oneself as it relates to a reinforced or clarified commitment to public action.
    • Action and Reflection: Demonstrates independent experience, accompanied by reflective insights or analysis about the aims and accomplishments of one’s actions.
  • In addition, CE courses may also seek to incorporate the following additional outcomes:
    • Diversity of Communities/Cultures: Demonstrates evidence of adjustment in own attitudes and beliefs because of working within and learning from diversity of communities and cultures.
    • Communication: Tailors communication strategies to effectively express, listen, and adapt to others to establish relationships to further community action.
    • Contexts/Structures: Demonstrates ability and commitment to collaboratively work across and within community contexts and structures to achieve a community aim.
    • Academic Impact: Uses community engagement experience to inform one’s academic study/field/discipline.

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