Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines

Applying Course Content to Community Needs

Edited by Heather K. Evans

Publication date:

22 November 2017

Length of book:

198 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475830729

This book is a reference to administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various best practices across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community engagement in traditional coursework are presented.
This book provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to incorporating the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum. Multiple departments from Art to Statistics, as well as various types of classes (undergraduate, graduate, online, face-to-face) are represented here.

If you are not sure how to integrate community engagement in classes at your university, this book is for you.

Acknowledgements
Introduction- Heather K. Evans
Chapter 1: Planning Academic Community Engagement Courses- Sanjay Mehta and Irfan Ahmed
Chapter 2: Community Engagement in Honors First Year Experience: How to ACE the A’s- Maria Alexander Holmes and Glenn M. Sanford
Chapter 3: Academic Community Engagement Strategies in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Programs at a Texas University- Magdalena Denham
Chapter 4: The Bilingual Workplace Writing Classroom: Meeting Community Literacy Needs- Isabel Baca
Chapter 5: Teaching Research for a Greater Purpose: Incorporating Community Engagement into a Graduate Qualitative Research Methods Course- Sarah Upton and Brenda Luna Bravo
Chapter 6: Connecting with Art: Building and Enhancing Culture through Academic Community Engagement- Michael Henderson
Chapter 7: Beyond Geographic Space: Online Learning and Community Engagement Initiatives- Ricardo Montelongo and Paul William Eaton
Chapter 8: Preparing Undergraduates for Public Service in Local Government- Michael T. Peddle and Eric S. Zeemering
Chapter 9: Civic Engagement as Public Sociology: Considerations for Pedagogy and Practice- Laura O-Toole
Chapter 10: Seeing Community Needs through a Statistical Lens: Undergraduate and graduate Level Consulting with Community Organizations in the El Paso Border Region- Amy Wagler, Craig Field, and Erik Baray
Chapter 11: Project-Based Learning: A Structure to Facilitate Service Learning in an Online, Interdisciplinary Project- Li-Jen Shannon and Marilyn Rice
Appendix A: Honors FYE ACE Course Calendar
Appendix B: Excerpts from Course Syllabus
Appendix C: Agency Profile of Literacy Needs
About the Editor
About the Contributors

Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines: Applying Course Content to Community Needs is a wonderful resource that assists instructors in both planning and implementation of community engagement projects in the classroom. This book provides several practical examples of community engagement in a variety of online and face-to-face environments across many disciplines.