We are pleased to announce the Community Engaged Course (CEC) list for Spring 2023. Courses across campus designated as CEC are tagged on MyUI for identification during registration. Students can proactively identify classes that integrate community partnerships into course activities as they register.
Student Information
Learn more about CECs and how they can enhance your learning and provide you an opportunity to make an impact in your community.
Instructor Information
Find information about teaching CECs, the application to designate your course as a CEC, and more resources for engaged teaching.
Spring 2023 CECs
| Course | Section | Name | Description |
| CEE | 4850 | Project Design & Management Civil Engineering | Design of civil engineering systems, individual and team design projects oriented toward the solution of local problems, project management, construction management, contracts, budgeting, bidding. |
| CINE | 2866 | Film/Video Production: Nonfiction | Individual and small group work to create video projects using nonfiction filmmaking techniques, from camera and lighting to postproduction. |
| CPH | 4755 | International Perspectives: Xicotepec | Interdisciplinary service-learning course to enrich understanding of Mexican culture and history; students hone teamwork, leadership, cultural sensitivity, cultural humility, and project management skills while developing and carrying out public health projects that address community-identified needs; coordinated with the support of Rotary International. |
| DSGN | 4000 | Graphic Design V | Critical theory and professional practice of branding and identity design; topics range from icon development to packaging design and prototyping. |
| EDTL | 2073 | Finding Your Comfort Zone: Secrets to Success | Understanding the strengths and challenges of people with special needs; insights into unwritten "rules" of college life; optional practicum involves working hands-on with people who have multiple learning and cognitive disabilities; students with disabilities or those interested in learning more about disabilities are encouraged to enroll. |
| ENTR | 4200 | Entrepreneurship: Business Consulting | Students provide strategic business consulting services to start-up and early-stage companies; exploration of consulting process (i.e., proposal development, data collection and analysis, team dynamics, communications with clients, developing recommendations, final report preparation and presentation); projects involving market research and analysis, financial analysis and projections, and strategic business and operations planning; may include online business consulting services to international companies and organizations or Iowa-based clients. |
| EVNT | 3154 | Foundations of Event Management | Large, major special events, professional meetings, and conferences; development and planning, implementation of events, management and evaluation of events; development requirements of planning events, development strategies, budgeting, staffing requirements, resource allocation, site planning, basic risk management requirements, emergency procedures; event implementation policy and procedures; relationship to elements within development stages; event management and evaluation procedures. |
| EVNT | 3154 | Foundations of Event Management | Large, major special events, professional meetings, and conferences; development and planning, implementation of events, management and evaluation of events; development requirements of planning events, development strategies, budgeting, staffing requirements, resource allocation, site planning, basic risk management requirements, emergency procedures; event implementation policy and procedures; relationship to elements within development stages; event management and evaluation procedures. |
| EVNT | 3260 | Event Management Workshop | Hands-on experience in event planning; working with clients, conceptualizing events, lining up small and large details, promoting events via social media and other means, carrying out events, and reflecting on outcomes; meet with event planning professionals; complete individual and group projects. |
| EVNT | 3185 | Topics in Event Management: Event Marketing | Focus on particular area, issue, approach, or body of knowledge in the world of event planning; topics may include political campaign events, social media events, diversity issues, and risk management. |
| IS | 3012 | Community Engaged Learning with Refugees and Immigrants in Iowa | Using the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) model (see below), this course explores the lives of immigrants and refugees in Iowa and the communities and organizations that welcome them. While we will ground the course in the history of immigration to the state and discuss the charged, national immigration debates of the present, our primary focuses are individuals and their lived experiences. |
| JMC | 3720 | Nonprofit Communications | This course will demonstrate, discuss, and implement best practices for creating nonprofit communications. It is an experiential course where you will work to create several foundational and targeted materials and projects for a nonprofit community partner. |
| JMC | 3700 | Nonprofit Internship | Faculty-supervised professional work experience with a nonprofit organization with associated academic content. |
| JMC | 4315 | Advanced Strategic Communication | Development and presentation of public relations campaigns for client organizations; communication theory and research techniques applied to analyzing and solving public relations problems through objective-based strategic planning. |
| LAW | 8224 | Client Counseling | Immersion in practice skills fundamental to any attorney-client relationship—interviewing and counseling; exploration of critical unseen factors which impact interviewing and counseling (e.g., self-awareness, cultural competence, bias, beliefs about the role of the lawyer in an attorney-client relationship); introduction and critique of three models of representation including traditional or regnant lawyering, client-centered lawyering, and rebellious or democratic lawyering. |
| LAW | 4800 | Undergrad Clinical Law Internship Program | Students learn about law school experience and legal careers through intensive training in a range of lawyering skills and collaboration with teams of law students on actual client matters; students enrolled in the Center for Environmental Law and Policy work with law students representing a nonprofit or other entity using nonlitigation means to advance social or economic justice; students enrolled in the Federal Criminal Defense Clinic work as investigators with law students representing indigent criminal defendants in the Northern District of Iowa; involves weekly seminars and team supervision, biweekly undergraduate supervision meetings. |
| LS | 3002 | Career Leadership Academy | Leadership development and career readiness; application of strengths, building effective teams, motivation, and delegation skills to a service-learning project designed by the class through engagement with a community partner; explore interviewing, personal branding, job searching, professional etiquette, salary negotiation, and transitioning successfully into the workplace; second in a two-course series. |
| MGMT | 3850 | Leadership Academy | Work in small groups to provide strategic management consulting services to Iowa-based companies; experienced entrepreneurs and C-level executives provide mentoring to teams; students independently communicate with their client, learn to employ the latest techniques for assessing competitive markets and identifying growth opportunities, and ultimately develop recommendations and prepare a final report for their client; second in a two-course sequence. |
| MGMT | 4600 | Nonprofit Ethics and Governance | Tools to help identify, understand, and resolve ethical issues in nonprofit sectors; how individual beliefs and societal standards shape ethical decision making; application of ethical frameworks to classic and contemporary ethical dilemmas; how various forms of governance shape ethical behavior in organizations; case studies, readings, lectures, and guest speakers. |
| MKTG | 3702 | Marketing Institute Seminar II | Development of soft skills and professional expertise to succeed in marketing and consulting careers; résumé and interview training, industry presentations, business case assignments, lectures; mentor students in marketing institute seminar. |
| MKTG | 4800 | Marketing Consulting Project | Experience in planning, designing, carrying out, reporting on a marketing research project for a profit or nonprofit client organization; communication with managers, application of marketing research, meeting deadlines, converting research findings into action recommendations for management. |
| PBAF | 6273 | Community Development Through Creative Placemaking | Examination of practices, ideas, and techniques for community development in small to large communities; particular focus on creative placemaking, in which planners and the public strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities; students and faculty apply this approach to a specific community project; for students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and planning and public affairs. |
| PBAF | 6210 | Public Affairs Capstone | Students work on a community, state, federal, or nonprofit-based project with focus on research and development of policy proposals and management action steps. |
| SLIS | 5030 | Information Organization | Introduction to information organization, the systems and standards used in libraries and information centers to describe and organize documents and records for optimal stewardship and retrieval; hands-on experience in creating media (e.g., LibGuides, Omeka galleries) and encoding XML documents; preparation for further practice in cataloging, metadata, preservation, and retrieval. |
| SPST | 1074 | Inequality in American Sport | Cultural meanings of sport in contemporary U.S. culture; sport experiences, inclusion, and exclusion as affected by social class, gender and sexuality, age and ability, race and ethnicity, and religion. |
| SRM | 4197 | Sport and Recreation Field Experience | Educational opportunities involving a small group of students in a unique sport business experience; students serve as consultants for a sport or recreation organization; in-class preparation complements off-campus work with designated industry partner; sport or recreation enterprise vary according to faculty expertise and industry partner availability. |
| THTR | 3615 | Action! Art! Creative Placemaking for the Public Good | Best practices for community projects; students in any discipline partner with artists to make change in the world; topics and activities include how to collaborate with creative partners and be a strong partner, develop ethical community partnerships, cultural competency, how to work for sustainable goals, team leadership skills, prepare social justice skills portfolios, investigate established projects, and develop individual or team projects for future semesters and beyond. |
| URP | 6273 | Community Development Through Creative Placemaking | Examination of practices, ideas, and techniques for community development in small to large communities; particular focus on creative placemaking, in which planners and the public strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities; students and faculty apply this approach to a specific community project; for students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and planning and public affairs. |
| URP | 6210 | Sustainable Communities Lab II | This course meets collectively weekly for 75 minutes. In addition there are weekly meetings with your individual groups. Also, each group meets regularly with their clients. |
| WRIT | 2100 | Writing and Community Outreach | Service-learning course offered in coordination with local community organizations and nonprofits; students critically consider ways in which written content—creative, promotional, and logistical—can help ensure outreach initiatives prioritize inclusivity; assignments include readings and discussions on community outreach and social justice issues, written reflections on relationships between self and community to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives, and volunteering time and energy with a local organization or nonprofit group in meaningful ways. |