Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement 101

Facilitated by Dia Penning & Lott Hill, Director, CTE

What are the shared theoretical underpinnings that unite the varied forms of public scholarship? On the Columbia College Campus, Civic Engagement opportunities for students and faculty encompass community-based research, university-community partnerships, experiential learning, and service learning. What is our common language? How do we measure our success? Through dialogue and investigation, we will explore connections to civic engagement that exist in existing classes, enhancing your student learning outcomes and determine how to develop useful assessment rubrics.

Please see our Fall 2009 schedule for times.

Spaces are limited; please RSVP at cte@colum.edu.

Civic Engagement: Tools and Techniques
Facilitated by Dia Penning & Lott Hill, Director, CTE

Building on the tools and discussion from Civic Engagement 101, this workshop will model lessons and techniques useful in building classroom engagement. Example curriculum from civic education, theater pedagogies, and arts integration will be used.

Please see our Fall 2009 schedule for times.

Spaces are limited; please RSVP at cte@colum.edu.

Service Learning Course Conversion

Facilitated by Dia Penning & Lott Hill, CTE

This series is designed for faculty members who think beyond the walls of their classrooms and who wish to develop new ways to engage students by connecting learning to the challenges of our communities. In three sessions, we will build upon the principles and practices of civically engaged pedagogies to consider how the curriculum of a course may be transformed by Service-Learning.

The series will conclude with an opportunity to submit proposals for the Timothy J. Densmore Service-Learning Faculty Fellowships that will provide up to $3,000 support for faculty members to integrate Service-Learning into a pre-existing class.

Community Partnerships

Facilitated by Dia Penning & Lott Hill, CTE, with CCAP

The Center for Community Arts Partnerships encourages the authentic development of public collaborations; with examples of best practices, suggestions for community partners, and tips for sustaining long term partnerships.

Please see our Fall 2009 schedule for times.

Spaces are limited; please RSVP at cte@colum.edu.

Interdisciplinary Education
and Arts Integration

Facilitated by Cynthia Weiss, co-author of AIMPRINT

A workshop exploring the connections between authentic discipline integration and the development of excellent curriculum.

Please see our Fall 2009 schedule for times.

Spaces are limited; please RSVP at cte@colum.edu.

Guest Artist Workshops

Guest artists model teaching practices through exploration of the yearly Critical Encounters focus, encouraging the collective learning of CCC faculty, graduate students and artists in the field.

Pearl of the Snowlands
TBA
In collaboration with the Center for Book and Paper, faculty will examine the development of Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Prints from the Derge Parkhang, delving into the interdisciplinary nature of the exhibition as well as the collaboration of the curatorial team.

Not all programs are offered each semester. Please see our schedule for Fall 2009 programming, times, and locations.