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The Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change 

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The Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change
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Overview

Learn principles and strategies for engaging with U.S.-based and global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning

Duration

17 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

The Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change
 at 
edX 
Highlights

  • Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Requires effort of 2-4 hours per week
  • Developed by a highly interdisciplinary team of U-M content experts and faculty
  • Earn a verified & sharable certificate
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The Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change
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edX 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Key concepts and strategies youll learn:
  • valuing community context and expertise;
  • understanding how social identities, power, and privilege impact your interactions;
  • approaches to collaborative leadership, such as listening effectively, resolving conflicts, and building mutually-beneficial partnerships;
  • reflecting on your work, and transitioning in and out of communities; and
  • effectively managing community-engaged projects
More about this course
  • Now more than ever, people are seeking ways to affect change in their communities both locally and around the world. This course is for anyone from novices to experienced practitioners who wants to work more effectively with community members and organizations, including through, but not limited to:
  • community-academic partnerships
  • social change projects
  • community service and learning
  • education and work abroad
  • traditional and community-based participatory research
  • non-profit internships
  • public scholarship
  • civic performance

The Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change
 at 
edX 
Curriculum

Introduction to Community Engagement

Community Context and Ethical Engagement

Social Identities, Power, and Privilege

Collaborative Leadership

Reflections and Transitions

Community-Engaged Project Management

Conclusion

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