This toolkit is intended to help first-year educators design Community-Engaged Learning for their courses. It was completed as part of a UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund project called From Classroom to Courtroom,
and compiled by Kristi Carey, Sartaj Singh, and Evan Mauro. We welcome any suggestions or feedback! Send a note to evan.mauro [at] ubc.ca
About From Classroom to Courtroom:
Our project develops and integrates community engaged learning (CEL) into a first year cohort program’s Academic Writing and Literature course. This course has historically used human rights, anti-oppression, and anti-violence frameworks, and so we planned to enhance our curriculum with social justice-oriented CEL options.
The version of CEL we designed in 2018-19 was made available to approximately 85 students. Our CEL experiences, readings, and discussions focused attention on the ways that communities on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) and elsewhere have organized against state violence and legal abandonment.
CAP’s Law & Society stream by establishing long-term relationships between Law & Society students and multiple community partners, including, Pivot Legal Society, the West Coast Women’s Legal, Education, and Action Fund, No One is Illegal, Karmik, InSite, and others. All are Vancouver-based organizations that working to improve the social and cultural positions of marginalized groups through legal means.
Here’s a poster that summarizes some of what we did:
See some of our students’ work at the link in the top menu.