CENG 1010 What’s Your Why: Understanding the Change You Want to Make in the Future of Health (1 Credit)

You will examine issues related to health innovation and public good from multiple vantage points. As you explore your broad interests, you will begin to identify the specific issues (or problems) that spark your academic interests, career aspirations, and passions. By the end of the quarter, you will answer the question: What matters so much to me that I’m inspired to take action? The first course in a sequence taken by students participating in DU’s What’s Your Why Learning Cohorts, this sprint involves advance assignments to prepare for a one-day class meeting and subsequent experiential activities, such as guest speakers and field trips. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission.

CENG 1011 Here’s Your How: Future of Health (1 Credit)

In the first course in this sequence, you identified an issue that inspires you to take action. Now, you will explore different types of action. After all, students can take many pathways to action, each of which involves a different combination of knowledge, dreams, skills, and talents. For example, DU students can do direct service, policy work, advocacy, innovation, research and more as signature work. By the end of the course, you will map your issue and interests onto an Action Plan. The Action Plan will help you strategically select and connect your academic experiences, build intellectual community, grow mentoring relationships, acquire foundational academic skills, and develop core professional skills on the path to signature work at DU. The second course in a sequence taken by students participating in DU’s What’s Your Why Learning Cohorts, this sprint involves advance assignments ] to prepare for a one-day class meeting and subsequent experiential activities, such as guest speakers and field trips. Prerequisite: Instructor Approval.

CENG 1700 Topics in Community Engagement (1-4 Credits)

CENG 2510 Denver Urban Issues and Policy (1-2 Credits)

This course is part of the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL)’s course series, which equips students with the skills, knowledge, and commitments necessary to collaborate with communities for the public good. As members of the Denver community, we have the responsibility and right to investigate important issues and co-create solutions that center equity and inclusion. There is a wide array of actions that can be taken to create social change, depending on what the issue demands and the strengths, skills, and talents of those working for change. The aim of this course is three-fold. First, you will learn how the history of Denver, including how legacies of violence, displacement, forced migration, and resettlement of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, have shaped the issues we see today. Second, the course will introduce you to some of the most critical issues facing Denver and local efforts to address those issues. Lastly, the course will provide the space for you to explore the variety of social change actions that can be taken, weighing the pros and cons of each and considering how to assess fit for the issue(s) you care about and your own strengths.

CENG 2520 Community Organizing (1,2 Credit)

This course is part of the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL)’s course series, which equips students with the skills, knowledge, and commitments necessary to collaborate with communities for the public good. In this course, you will learn about the history of community organizing in the United States, the role of community organizing in contemporary social movements, and the components of the community organizing process. Students will first learn how to critically examine power, privilege, oppression, and white supremacy in the context of working for social change. Then, you will explore various community organizing practices including identifying self-interests; building relationships; defining issues using an anti-oppression analysis; understanding root causes; centering the experience of the communities most impacted by injustice and systemic oppression; and creating a vision, strategies, tactics to support campaigns for social justice.

CENG 2590 From Public Good Theory to Action (1-2 Credits)

This course is part of the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL)’s course series, which equips students with the skills, knowledge, and commitments necessary to collaborate with communities for the public good. Through this course, you will integrate your personal, professional, and academic goals with a focus on social change. In doing so, you will gain a clear sense of your identity as a public good scholar as well as a personal action plan that you can implement to address a social justice issue of your choosing. You will apply an anti-oppression analysis to your plan including how the I’s of Oppression manifest in your selected topic, ways you center the knowledge/voices of the communities most impacted by the injustice/systemic oppression, and how white supremacy shows up in your issue and how to actively work to address racist and oppressive practices.

CENG 2700 Topics in Community Engagement (1-4 Credits)

CENG 2980 Global Career Accelerator (1-4 Credits)

Built around an innovative model of project-based learning, CENG 2980 provides students with the guidance, resources, and skills to explore multiple career paths with confidence. Students will reflect on their values and interests, while charting a path toward the skills, experiences, and opportunities that advance their progress toward careers and lives of purpose. As part of the course, students will collaborate with leading-edge companies from around the world on pressing real-world projects. With each “micro-internship,” students can earn micro-credentials in key industry tools experience— all without ever leaving campus.

CENG 3980 Internship (1-8 Credits)

Students who complete a special project as part of an internship with a community organization can register for 1-8 Community Engagement Internship credits.

CENG 3991 Independent Study (1-10 Credits)

The Public Good Pathways Independent Study provides academic credit for reflection, integration, and synthesis of a student’s current and previous work that contributes to the University of Denver’s public good vision. This work is overseen by the Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL) and may be completed in collaboration with one or more community partner(s). Public Good Pathways Independent Study opportunities are individually designed as experiences for students who have completed at least one community-engaged class, and they require approval from the Executive Director of CCESL.