Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HC 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: OHIO Honors Program
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain the basic principles 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.
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