Community Based Learning (CBL)

At Georgetown University, community-based learning (CBL) is an academic course-based pedagogy that involves student work with disadvantaged and underserved individuals or groups, or organizations working with and for disadvantaged and underserved individuals or groups, that is structured to meet community-defined needs. Critically, course objectives and student community work are fundamentally integrated. The basic aim of CBL courses is two-fold: first, that students’ experiences in community-based work will heighten their engagement with central academic themes and material in the course; second, that the academic course content will facilitate students’ ability to reflect in deep and constructive ways on their experiences working in the community.
Learn more about community-based learning on the CSJ Website
Fall 2017
CBL: Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Social Change
Spring 2014
CBL: Philanthropy and Social Change
CBL: Social Justice Analysis: Theory and Practice
CBL: Sociology Senior Seminar
Fall 2014
CBL: Global Inequalities/Social Justice
CBL: DC: Neighborhoods, Poverty & Inequality
CBL: Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Social Change
Spring 2013
CBL: Social Justice Analysis: Theoretical and Practical
CBL: Philanthropy and Social Change
CBL: Sociology Senior Seminar
Fall 2013
CBL: Global Inequalities/Social Justice
CBL: DC: Neighborhoods, Poverty & Inequality
Spring 2012
CBL: Global Inequalities/Social Justice
CBL: Philanthropy/Social Change
CBL: Project DC II: Urban Resident Intern
CBL: Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Social Change
Fall 2012
CBL: DC: Neighborhoods, Poverty & Inequality
CBL: Women and Development
Spring 2011
CBL: Philanthropy & Social Change
CBL: Project DC: Urban Research II
CBL: Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Social Change
CBL: Social Justice Analysis: Theory/Practice
Fall 2011
CBL: Project DC: Urban Research I
CBL: Social Justice Analysis: Theory/Practice