Prior Teaching Experience:
Successful teaching related to field at college or university level
Prior experience working with and instructing graduate students is an asset.
Required competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content:
This course reviews the conceptual aspects of community engagement, and provides students with a sound understanding of the practical and professional aspects of designing and delivering public engagement processes. The goal of this engagement is to secure, document and utilize public input in the pursuit of better public decisions and outcomes. This often occurs in the context of contentious public debates.
Experience in this context will be essential in helping students to develop an appropriate skill set and prepare for the eventuality of their own professional practice. Specifically, candidates must demonstrate the competence, capability, and skills to: (1) discuss and consider a broad range of community engagement processes and their application in a variety of contexts; (2) consider diverse community engagement strategies based on the experience of practitioners; (3) critique the relevance and effectiveness of community engagement processes.