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Critical Community Engagement

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For course descriptions not found in the UC San Diego General Catalog 2024–25, please contact the department for more information.

CCE 1. Critical Approaches in Community Practice (4)

Introduces ethical partnership across complex social, historical, and political positions. The course addresses contested framings of community and participation through practical examples, theoretical conceptions, and empirical studies. Students will give close attention to shared circumstance and negotiation of power relations. Must be taken for a letter grade to count toward Eighth College general-education requirements. Prerequisites: Eighth College students only; completion of UC Entry Level Writing Requirement.

CCE 2. Cultivating Community-Informed Practices (4)

This course introduces students to writing as a community-informed endeavor. Students will develop writing practices to engage in respectful, meaningful, ethical, and reciprocal community partnerships. Using participatory action and community-rooted research, students will develop reading, writing, and thinking practices that recognize, honor, and foster community knowledge. Must be taken for a letter grade to count toward Eighth College general-education requirements. Prerequisites: Eighth College students only; CCE 1.

CCE 3. Elements of Community-Engaged Collaborative Research (4)

This course introduces students to community-engaged collaborative research and community-facing writing. Students develop practices for negotiation, ongoing reflection and revision, and methods for recognizing who is not present and why. This course prepares students to build processes for navigating opportunities and challenges, using research and writing as a foundation for engagement, critical thinking, creative practice, communication, and revision. Prerequisites: Eighth College students only; CCE 2.