Curriculum Development for the Certificate
Faculty are invited to design courses either in the Civic Engagement Certificate’s core concentration areas or using community engaged pedagogy in your disciplinary or professional courses.
Criteria and learning outcomes for course designation
Core concentration areas:
- Human and Civil Rights
- Community building
- Sustainability
- Public Policy
- Ethics Courses with Community-engaged Learning
How to Have a Course Listed as a Part of the Certificate:
1) Student or faculty member proposes course to the Community Engaged Learning Curriculum Committee (submit to Center for Community Engagement & Learning, Library 211G, engage@uaa.alaska.edu)
2) Committee reviews course using minimum standards (at minimum, the syllabus for that semester must be provided; committee may request more information)
3) Course is approved or denied for that semester
Note: Course proposers are provided feedback on reasons for denial. Denied courses may be resubmitted for review. Courses that have been previously approved do not have to be resubmitted to the committee, however, the Certificate Faculty Advisor will determine that the course still meets the same CEL standards.
Civic Engagement Certificate Program Curriculum Committee Members, 2009-10
Tracey Burke, School of Social Work
Diane Hirshberg, Civic Engagement Certificate and Institute for Social and Economic Research
Tara Smith, College Preparatory and Developmental Studies
Polly Smith, Anchorage Literacy Project
