Course introducing graduate students to community engaged scholarship will be offered in Spring 2025.
The introductory 3-credit course, UNIV 679: Introduction to Engaged Scholarship will be offered asynchronously in Spring 2025.
The course, which is required for the Graduate Community Engagement Certificate, will focus on the historical foundations of community engagement, partnerships, research/creative activities, teaching, and service, evaluation and assessment, criticality in community engagement, communication and dissemination.
The Graduate Community Engagement Certificate prepares graduate students to work with the public in ways that respond to community needs and honor community knowledge.
In turn, community engagement helps broaden the impact and improve the quality of research.
The program combines community-focused graduate research or creative work, hands-on experience, and 9 credits of coursework, most of which is completed in the student’s academic discipline.