Course Description
Theory, methodology, and ethics of university-community engagement. The professional development of graduate students is enhanced through training in engaged teaching, research, and service.
Athena Title
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMNT
Non-Traditional Format
Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 30% of overall instructional time. Course includes applied community engagement experiences allowing students to develop a discipline-specific plan for engaged teaching, research, and/or service.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
In this course, students will: •Gain an understanding of the university’s land- and sea-grant missions. •Discover how the land- and sea-grant missions are met through the Public Service & Outreach units, Cooperative Extension, and community-engaged faculty in the colleges and schools of the university. •Understand the tenets of engaged scholarship. •Learn the theory, methodology and ethics of community engagement in higher education. •Take part in community engagement/service-learning activities and relate them to students’ disciplinary expertise. •Prepare materials suitable for inclusion in UGA’s Graduate Community Engagement Portfolio, including a case study on the development and execution of a current UGA-community partnership and a personal plan for community-engaged scholarship. •Develop relationships with faculty and personnel in Public Service & Outreach and Cooperative Extension at UGA, as well as community-engaged faculty from academic units and community partners.
Topical Outline
•Purpose of the land-grant university, and UGA’s land- and sea-grant history and mission •Background and theoretical approaches to university-community engagement •Best practices for producing and publishing engaged scholarship •UGA’s Graduate Community Engagement Portfolio •Case studies and applied projects with Public Service & Outreach, Cooperative Extension, and departmental/college engagement initiatives