The Office of Civic Engagement supports faculty across disciplines as they integrate community engagement and service into coursework in order to promote student inquiry about specific places and issues, deepen students’ understanding of diverse perspectives, and encourage students’ development as civic agents.
The Office has an extensive list of community partners. Faculty who are interested in integrating community engagement into their teaching or research should reach out to the OCE Director, Amy Patterson to discuss their pedagogical objectives so that the office can help faculty find an appropriate community partner.
The Certificate in Community Engagement for Collaborative Change (CCECC) brings together what students learn in the classroom with real-world applications to make sense of issues of concern to communities. Students work across academic disciplines to gain collaborative skills and reflect on their leadership on and off campus. The certificate welcomes students from across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The Community-Engaged Learning program offers academic courses across the curriculum with a community engagement component. Each course integrates community engagement and service to activate the liberal arts. Students can search the schedule of classes on the registrar's website for courses with "Community Engagement" in the description.
Proposals for Civic Engagement course designation will be reviewed by the Office of Civic Engagement. If you have questions about these criteria for Civic Engagement courses or would like assistance in developing a civic engagement course, please contact Amy Patterson, aspatter@sewanee.edu. Please submit the form linked below, your syllabus (or course outline, if syllabus is not complete), and your proposal to ce@sewanee.edu.
Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows develop courses and research opportunities that enhance students’ learning through community engagement. Fellows participate in workshops and personalized advising to build connections with community partners and craft course offerings that link classroom learning with hands-on experiences that promote social good. Fellows mentor other faculty to offer future community engagement courses.
Here are some additional resources about community-engaged learning courses.
Integrating theory, methods, and analytical tools central to academic approaches to civic engagement and leadership with their concentration coursework, students in this seminar work with faculty and site supervisors to design and complete a semester-long research project to address a specific problem that emerged during the course of their practicum experiences. Restricted to students pursuing the certificate in civic and global leadership.
Why punish? How might one justify it? Is punishment, ultimately, good? This course will begin with the thesis that punishment, as a whole, is good: the rehabilitative and restorative traditions, along with relevant readings from thinkers like Kant and Hegel, articulate the moral and social benefits of punishment. A look to more instrumental utilizations of punishment will follow, including utilitarian and deterrent traditions and readings from Bentham and Machiavelli. Finally, critical historical genealogies of punishment in Nietzsche and Foucault will serve as a bridge to the covering violence inherent in mass incarceration and the alternative of prison abolition.
This seminar considers how psychologists put their skills and training to work in support of transformative futures for individuals, communities, and society. To understand how social change happens, this course draw on theories from community psychology, organizational psychology, and liberation/critical psychology to explore the types of leadership practices and organizational structures needed to create and sustain social change efforts.
Singing from the Sacred Harp hymnal represents an old but still rewarding Southern musical practice, suitable for all amateurs willing to sing loudly. In twice-a-week practices, we cover the fundamentals of shape-note singing and learn to sing in parts. Approximately once a month we travel to Alabama to participate in one of the traditional Sacred Harp singings.
This course provides an introduction to nutrition and focuses on the relationship between diet and health. Topics include physiological requirements and functions of protein, energy, and the major vitamins and minerals that are determinants of health and diseases in human populations. These basic concepts are applied to societal issues, including the role of diet in malnutrition, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Community engagement.
