In our civic engagement program, we want to make sure that students have co-curricular, curricular, and integrative experiences.
- Civic Agency: Students act as an agent of change within a community to pursue social change for the public good.
- Civic Identity: Students can connect their service and learning experience to show they will be civicly involved in the long term.
- Critical Thinking and Perspective Taking: Students understand different perspectives related to difficult topics or opposite positions.
- Communication Skills: Students can talk to other people and listen to others too.
- Diversity and Intercultural Competence: Students can change in their own attitudes and beliefs after getting to know people from different communities.
- Empathy: Students can connect their own feelings and life experiences to those of other people from different backgrounds.
- Integrative Learning: Students connect relevant experience and academic knowledge.
- Leadership: Students who show initiative in leadership roles within civic engagement activities can analyze the purposes and accomplishments made.
- Place- and Issue- Knowledge: Students can show what they know about a community-related issue through their project or role.
- Social Justice: Students can talk with others how to take action against injustices.
