Community Engaged Leadership, Minor
Do meaningful work to improve your communities by earning the Community Engaged Leadership Minor.
About the Community Engaged Leadership Minor
The minor in Community Engaged Leadership (CEL) is an interdisciplinary minor that equips students with the skills to analyze and understand significant problems facing our communities.
- As part of their academic work, students are challenged to explore their relationships with these problems and imagine possible solutions.
- Additionally, students do meaningful, hands-on work to improve our communities through a project co-designed with an off-campus partner.
The minor provides an overview of how students can ethically and effectively partner with community-based organizations. To help them form collaborative partnerships the CEL minor introduces students to different theory of change frameworks and partnership best practices.
The Community Engaged Leadership Minor is available to all students, regardless of their major.
It consists of 19 total credit hours comprised of the following courses:
- CEL 210: Intro to Community Engaged Leadership (4 credit hours)
- CEL 310: Community Engaged Leadership Capstone (3 credit hours)
- 12 credit hours of qualifying courses
- The CEL minor culminates in a capstone project in collaboration with an off-campus community-based organization.
Pro tip: If students think their class should qualify as a credit for the minor, they can petition to have their class included in the qualifying course list.
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Program Information
Program Type
Minor
Area of Study
Social Sciences, Law, and Policy
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Duration
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Required Credit Hours
19 credit hours
Why is a Minor in Community Engaged Leadership Important?
The Community Engaged Leadership minor prepares students to be an active and knowledgeable community member. Once students complete the CEL minor they are prepared to assess, understand, and find solutions to whatever problems their community may face. Students will also have the skills to partner and collaborate with diverse community partners to help ensure that community needs are met.
A student that completes the CEL minor will hone unique core competencies, including:- Civic Literacy. The ability to understand the institutions, structures, ideas, and practices that make up the frameworks for shared life in our society.
- Civic Agency. The knowledge of how to effectively influence and transform the institutions, structures, ideas, and practices that constitute shared life in order to improve equity and justice.
- Civic Imagination. The ability to envision and articulate structures, ideas, and practices to create a shared life grounded in equity and justice.
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