Community-Engaged Learning
Work with local leaders and residents on local issues. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Use what you learn to contribute to changing the world.
Engage in activities that address justice issues, strengthen our communities, and foster personal development of civic competencies and values. Community-engaged learning courses are an integral part of the university’s undergraduate curriculum, providing you with academic coursework and community-based lessons about social justice issues and your potential to be an agent of change.
As an undergraduate, you are required to complete a community-engaged learning course in order to graduate. But for many students, one isn’t enough. Our students average 1.5 community-engaged learning courses during their academic careers.
Make the City Your Classroom
Contribute to local organizations, reflect on justice issues, and explore your civic identity in courses that will inspire you to be an agent of change.
Pollination Biology
Work with an organization focused on pollinator conservation, habitat restoration, or food production. Take excursions to natural history museums and urban gardens, and collect data in natural, urban, and agricultural areas. This course will guide you as a scientist and as an advocate for practices and policies that mitigate the ecological and social impacts of human disruptions to pollination.
Professional Power and Influence
Examine how concepts and theories of power and influence play out in a community setting while developing both the skill and commitment to participate effectively in civic life, address community-identified priorities, and contribute to the advancement of the public good.
Organizational Communication
Observe a specific organization and analyze the cultures and structures within it — through lecture, discussion, case studies, written assignments, exams, and a community engaged learning project in which you will actively contribute to the operations of the organization.
Engaging Faith and Nonviolence
Encounter and reflect on the reality of violence and learn from community members engaged in nonviolence through activism, empowerment, and service. Partnerships might include faith-based community organizers, faith-based multi-service providers and congregations, as well as non-faith based community organizations that address aspects of nonviolence.
Community Organizing
Engage with the community and campus partners to address societal needs not currently being met. Through ongoing reflection and critical analysis, you'll examine public issues and explore your civic identity.
Join a Living-Learning Community
Live with others in a designated residential setting while taking a common set of courses that integrate core requirements into the curriculum. Living-learning communities integrate a year-long community-engaged learning initiative that allows students to build authentic relationships with the community and maximize their contributions to positive social change efforts.
Contribute to Social Justice
Take community-engaged learning beyond your coursework and join initiatives and programs dedicated to advancing the common good while also developing academic, professional, and civic skills.
Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
Fashion and more humane and just world. Cultivate authentic community partnerships while pursuing a life of ethical public service.
Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Confront injustice and inhumanity in all forms. Study the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Work to address social problems in our communities, across the nation, and around the world.
Engage San Francisco
Support children, youth, and families in the Western Addition to achieve their full potential in education, health, career development, and housing.
Become an Agent for Change
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