COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PORTFOLIO CAPSTONE
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.
Prerequisites & course information
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
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027