| Course ID: | GRSC 7970S. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Approaches to Community Engagement |
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. |
| Oasis Title: | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMNT |
| Nontraditional 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 semester every year. |
| Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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| 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 |
| Honor Code Reference: | UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of
my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. Every course syllabus should include
the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity. |