Please join your UConn colleagues for two one-hour virtual CETL workshops in April on:

 

The Environment Corps: an engaged scholarship model that combines classroom instruction, service learning and Extension (an act in two parts)

 

Workshop Description:

A partnership at UConn that reaches across college and departmental lines is engaged in a project that seeks to enhance, expand, institutionalize, and study a new model for experiential learning and community engagement. The model, called the Environment Corps (“E-Corps”), combines familiar elements of classroom instruction, service learning, and extension outreach to create a method of engagement that aims to benefit students, faculty, surrounding communities, and the university community itself. This two-part series will review E-Corps structure, operation, results, and early lessons learned. 

Þ Part One will focus on course design, faculty development, and pedagogical strategies for engaged student learning; attendees will hear from instructors and students of the three current E-Corps courses.

Friday, April 9, 2:00 – 3:00 pm           Focus on the Classroom

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2000

 

Þ Part Two will focus on building community partnerships and designing appropriate student projects, including several examples; attendees will hear from additional instructors and our municipal “clients.” Both sessions will set aside ample time for discussion.

Friday, April 23, 2:00 – 3:00 pm         Focus on Community Projects

Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2001

 

 

 

https://ecorps.initiative.uconn.edu/

For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu