Course Announcement: Graduate Work for Professional Development
Note: Marisa Charley from Washington & Lee University enrolled in this course. It may be of interest to other professionals in the Bonner network.
Civic Engagement in Higher Education
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Department of Leadership in Education
Wednesdays, 6:00-8:30 PM
(Class meetings: January 25-May 10, 2017)
Students may attend in person or on-line (15 student limit)
Course Number: HIGHED 622
Faculty: John Saltmarsh, Ph.D.
Course Description
Civic Engagement in Higher Education has had a long and episodic history in the United States; in the past decades, however, interest in civic engagement as a way of fulfilling the democratic purposes of higher education has increased noticeably. This course will critically examine the philosophical, theoretical, historical, and programmatic dimensions of the current civic engagement movement as well as the implications for institutional commitment and culture.
Topics
History of Civic Engagement in American Higher Education
Service-Learning theory and practice
Civic engagement and social justice
Community Engaged Research
The Engaged Campus and institutionalization
The Scholarship of Engagement & Faculty Roles
The Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification
Civic Engagement Course Projects
This course offers an opportunity for students to integrate course material with their own professional interests through an individual project.
Who should take this course?
- Anyone, including non-degree students, interested in community and civic engagement either as a practitioner or researcher.
- AmeriCorp and VISTAs looking to enhance their professional development.
- Anyone involved in preparing their campus application for the 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement designation
- Directors of service-learning and community engagement offices
- Campus Administrators
- Community organizers
- Engaged Educators
- (This course can be taken as elective for students in the Higher Education doctoral program.)
Costs (3 credits):
Massachusetts Resident, Tuition and Fees: $2,152.80
Out-of-State, Tuition and Fees: $4,158.90
New England Region, Tuition and Fees: $3,424.80
Registration: Contact highereducation@umb.edu for assistance in registering for the course. Registration begins November 7, 2016.
Course Faculty:
John Saltmarsh teaches in the Higher Education Doctoral Program of the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development. He is the author, most recently, of a co-edited volume Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education(2016). He also co-edited “To Serve a Larger Purpose:” Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education (2011) and co-authored Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2011). He is also the author of numerous book chapters and articles on civic engagement, service-learning, and experiential education, and the co-author of the Democratic Engagement White Paper(NERCHE, 2009) and Full Participation: Building the Architecture for Diversity and Public Engagement in Higher Education (2011). He is an associate editor for the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Metropolitan Universities Journal, the eJournal of Public Affairs and the advisory board of Diversity and Democracy. He leads the administration of the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification. He also serves on the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, as a member of the board of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), and as a member of Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Coordinating Committee Members of the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Action. For more information, go to http://umboston.academia.edu/JohnSaltmarsh.
