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Community-Engaged Learning
Work with local leaders and residents on local issues. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Engage in activities that address justice issues, strengthen communities, and enhance your civic competencies and values. Use what you learn to help change the world.
Make the City Your Classroom
Contribute to local organizations, reflect on justice issues, and explore your civic identity in courses that inspire you to be an agent of change. As an undergraduate, you are required to complete one community-engaged learning course in order to graduate.
Join a Living-Learning Community
Live with others while taking a common set of courses that integrate core requirements into the curriculum. Living-learning communities include a year-long community-engaged learning initiative that enables you to build relationships with the community and maximize contributions to social change efforts.
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Contribute to Social Justice
Take community-engaged learning beyond your coursework and join initiatives and programs that advance the common good while also developing your academic, professional, and civic skills.
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Pursue Public Service
Fashion a more humane and just world. Cultivate authentic community partnerships while pursuing a life of ethical public service.
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Confront Injustice
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.
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Support Your Neighbors
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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