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