Overview
What is Community-Engaged Education?
Community-engaged education at McMaster aims to provide students with the opportunity to integrate their academic knowledge with experiences in the community to address social, economic, environmental and health concerns. Community-engaged education is a type of experiential education that enables students to learn from and give to communities. Community-engaged education can occur both within a course as well as through a co-curricular experience.
Community engagement minor
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Community Engagement allows students to deepen and expand their understanding of communities and develop skills for principled and effective engagement. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor allows for a broad knowledge base from which to establish relationships with a range of communities both locally and globally.
COURSES AVAILABLE
CMTYENGA 2A03 - Foundations of Community Engagement
3A03
3MC3
CityLAB
If you’re a student interested in taking any of these courses, speak to your Academic Advisor or reach out to Jay Carter.
How you can participate
Interdisciplinary Minor in Community Engagement Learn More
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Community Engagement allows students to deepen and expand their understanding of communities and develop skills for principled and effective engagement. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor allows for a broad knowledge base from which to establish relationships with a range of communities both locally and globally. Students are required to take CMTYENGA 2A03 and 21 additional units from three course lists that include theory, experiential and capstone courses.
Community-Engaged Education Toolkit Learn More
The Community-Engaged Education Toolkit has been developed to encourage faculty, staff, and students to embed principles of community engagement into their community-engaged teaching and extracurricular partnerships.
CityLAB Hamilton Learn More
CityLAB is an innovation hub that brings together student, academic, and civic leaders to co-create a better Hamilton for all. CityLAB works with city staff members to identify complex challenges related to the theme areas of Healthy Neighbourhoods, Climate Change, and Municipal Excellence, and matches them with faculty and courses from Hamilton’s three post-secondary institutions: Mohawk College, McMaster University, and Redeemer University College.
Research Shop Learn More
The McMaster Research Shop works with public, non-profit, and community organizations in Hamilton to provide plain-language answers to research questions.
Helping organizations make research-informed decisions and do research-grounded advocacy, providing students with experience in collaborative research that responds to practical questions, and fostering a spirit of creativity, mutual learning, openness, and trust.