Community-Based Learning Courses
One special type of social justice course is a “community-based learning” (CBL) course. At Georgetown University, CBL is an academic course-based pedagogy that involves student work with disadvantaged and underserved individuals or groups (or organizations working with and for disadvantaged and underserved individuals or groups) that is structured to meet community-defined needs. Critically, course objectives and student community work are fundamentally integrated. The basic aim of CBL courses is two-fold: first, that students’ experiences in community-based work will heighten their engagement with central academic themes and material in the course; second, that the academic course content will facilitate students’ ability to reflect in deep and constructive ways on their experiences working in the community.
Students can find these courses in registration material; they have “CBL” in the title of the course (or section of the course). That means, in addition, that these courses appear on their academic transcript.
Please contact Jane Kirchner, CBL/PJP Coordinator for lists of these courses.
