Community-Based
Learning
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Participants
in the women's studies seminar Emily Dickinson in Her Times
gather in the poet's bedroom with Emily Dickinson Homestead
Curator Cindy Dickinson.
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Students in
the community-based learning course Nonfiction Writing:
Writing Journalistic Narratives for Magazines and Books
focused on Cape Cod's Monomoy Islands.
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Community-based learning
(CBL) brings together students, faculty, and community organizations
to work on projects that provide intellectually rich experiences
for students and tangible benefits to the community. In a geography
course, for example, students used Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) in a feasibility study for a bike path between South Hadley
and Amherst. In another CBL course, students conducted research
in poet Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst and created a public
exhibition there.
A program of the Weissman
Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, CBL is intended
to broaden students' understanding of public concerns and
develop leadership and advocacy skills.
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