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CSCS 600

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PORTFOLIO CAPSTONE

3 credits.

Designed to demonstrate accumulated training and experience in community and nonprofit leadership. Explores how to better conceptualize, engage with, and reflect on social justice and community issues from a human ecology perspective, while also learning from prior practice and experience working with nonprofit, community- and mission-based organizations.

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Requisites: Senior standing Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply human ecological perspectives at discrete levels of analysis – including individual, group, community, and society. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recognize the influence and interconnectedness across the major sectors of society – private, public and civil/nonprofit. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Exhibit a strong capacity for sustained, high impact participation in civic life. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize wellbeing and social justice as relational and positional. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify professional, academic and entrepreneurial options for applying wellbeing and social justice in community organizing and empowerment. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate entry-level knowledge and skills relevant to nonprofit and community organizations. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Exhibit the practices of a lifelong learner through the development (production, completion) and implementation of a portfolio. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Recognize the value of being a reflective, ethical leader who cultivates others’ strengths and leadership capabilities, while exhibiting self-care and care for others. Audience: Undergraduate 9. Create a dynamic professional portfolio, with content and format consistent with personal and vocational passions, interests, skills and strivings – exhibiting perspectives on and understandings of CSCS curricula. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply human ecological perspectives at discrete levels of analysis – including individual, group, community, and society. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Recognize the influence and interconnectedness across the major sectors of society – private, public and civil/nonprofit. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Exhibit a strong capacity for sustained, high impact participation in civic life. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize wellbeing and social justice as relational and positional. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify professional, academic and entrepreneurial options for applying wellbeing and social justice in community organizing and empowerment. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Demonstrate entry-level knowledge and skills relevant to nonprofit and community organizations. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Exhibit the practices of a lifelong learner through the development (production, completion) and implementation of a portfolio. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Recognize the value of being a reflective, ethical leader who cultivates others’ strengths and leadership capabilities, while exhibiting self-care and care for others. Audience: Undergraduate 9. Create a dynamic professional portfolio, with content and format consistent with personal and vocational passions, interests, skills and strivings – exhibiting perspectives on and understandings of CSCS curricula. Audience: Undergraduate

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