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UC 2600 - Introduction to Ethical Community Engagement

This course introduces students to fundamental principles of ethical community engagement that begin with an understanding of how first to engage with a community through the identification and elevation of its assets. Students are asked to reflect on their perceptions of communities with which they have no previous relationships, encouraged to interrogate the factors that have influenced those perceptions, and challenged to expand their understanding of those communities through research and engagement with community members. Through that process of self-reflection, students also are challenged to consider ways of engagement that are mutually beneficial to themselves and their community partners. In addition, this class explores the tension associated with navigating structural and cultural differences to find common goals and create partnerships that facilitate the achievement of community partners’ missions as well as academic expectations for the students.

Requisites: WARNING: No credit if taken HC 2600
Credit Hours: 1
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
College Credit Plus: Level 1

Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to explain the ethics of asset-based community development.
  • Students will be able to explain such concepts as the “culture of poverty” and articulate critical arguments that address those concepts.
  • Students will be able to identify relevant power differentials in specific cases of community engagement.
  • Students will be able to articulate a personal philosophy of lifelong community engagement.
  • Students will be able to recognize their own ethical core beliefs and understand how these beliefs shape their conduct and thinking when engaging with communities.
  • Students will be able to recognize, evaluate, and connect ethical issues that arise in interactions with diverse communities.
  • Students will be able to apply ethical perspectives, theories, or concepts to decisions about how to engage responsibly and respectfully with community partners.
  • Students will be able to evaluate alternative ethical perspectives when navigating structural and cultural differences in community engagement.


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