BEST PRACTICES IN COMMUNITY-ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP
Community-engaged scholarship (CES) captures a broad understanding of the possibilities to learn, teach, and do research through academic-community collaboration. CES encompasses the interaction known as "service-learning" or "community-based learning" (CBL) as well as complex models of academic-community engagement known as "community-based research" or "participatory action research." Staff members from the Morgridge Center for Public Service (MCPS) will introduce the concepts and models of CES, discuss the importance of building and maintaining community relationships, identify challenges and solutions in implementing CES, and assist you in creating your own course, project, or proposal.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand and evaluate different models of community-engaged teaching and research Audience: Graduate 2. Apply theoretical models of community-engaged scholarship in practice Audience: Graduate 3. Develop or continue mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships with community partners Audience: Graduate 4. Understand how to evaluate community-based teaching and research Audience: Graduate 5. Develop awareness of resources available to you related to community-engaged scholarship at UW-Madison Audience: Graduate 6. Create actionable ways to integrate community-engaged scholarship into your research, teaching, and/or service portfolio as a graduate student and beyond Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand and evaluate different models of community-engaged teaching and research Audience: Graduate 2. Apply theoretical models of community-engaged scholarship in practice Audience: Graduate 3. Develop or continue mutually beneficial, reciprocal relationships with community partners Audience: Graduate 4. Understand how to evaluate community-based teaching and research Audience: Graduate 5. Develop awareness of resources available to you related to community-engaged scholarship at UW-Madison Audience: Graduate 6. Create actionable ways to integrate community-engaged scholarship into your research, teaching, and/or service portfolio as a graduate student and beyond Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027