Community-based learning (CBL) courses integrate significant community partnerships to meet actual community goals and advance academic learning. CBL courses at Smith span disciplines, topics and community partnerships as near as Northampton, and as far as India.
The Center for Community Collaboration (CCC) is committed to working with communities in partnerships for shared learning and growth. It is an organizational hub where faculty, students and community members will find support to facilitate their efforts to collaborate. The CCC supports faculty and students in teaching and learning that are engaged and reciprocal with the community.
Apply for Support
The CCC invites proposals from Smith faculty to support the revision of existing courses or the implementation of new courses to incorporate CBL pedagogy.
CBL Courses Offered at Smith College
Art
| LSS/ARS 389 | Broad-scale Design and Planning Studio | Reid Bertone-Johnson |
Education & Child Study
| EDC 200 | Urban Education | Sam Intrator |
| EDC 210 | Literacy in Cross-Cultural Perspective | Lucy Mule |
| EDC 232 | The American Middle School and High School | Carol Berner |
| EDC 342 | Growing up American | Sam Intrator |
| EDC 343 | Multicultural Education | Lucy Mule |
| EDC 336 | Youth Development and Social Entrepreneurship | Sam Intrator, Don Siegel |
| EDC 338 | Children Learning to Read | Susan Etheredge |
Presidential Seminars
| PRS 312 | Weaker Vessels: Women and Violence/Inside and Out | Ellen Kaplan |
Engineering
EGR 205 Science, Technology, and Ethics (Donna Riley)
| EGR 410D | Engineering Design Clinic | Susannah Howe |
First-Year Seminars
FYS 121 The Evolution and Transformaton of the Northampton State Hospital (Thomas Riddell)
Government
| GOV 217 | The Politics of Wealth and Poverty in the U.S. | Martha Ackelsberg |
IDP
| IDP 120 | Community-Based Learning: Ethics and Practice | Lucy Mule |
| IDP 320 | Seminar: Global Learning Women's Health | Les Jaffe |
Landscape Studies
| LSS 200 | Socialized Landscapes: Private Squalor and Public Affluence | Nina Antonetti |
| LSS 220 | Activism by Design | Nina Antonetti |
| LSS 250 | Studio: Landscape and Narrative | Reid Bertone-Johnson |
| LSS 255 | Art and Ecology | Reid Bertone-Johnson |
| LSS 300 | Rethinking Landscape | Nina Antonetti |
| LSS/ARS 389 | Broad-scale Design and Planning Studio | Reid Bertone-Johnson |
Psychology
| PSY 325 | Topics in Mind-Body Medicine | Benita Jackson |
Sociology
| SOC 308/9 | Practicum in Community-Based Research | Ginetta Candelario |
| SOC 214 | Sociology of Hispanic Caribbean Communities | Ginetta Candelario |
Theatre
THE 312 Masters and Movements in Performance: Theatre for Young Audiences (Daniel Kramer)
Mathematics and Statistics
MTH 245 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (Katherine Halvorsen)
Program for the Study of Women & Gender
| SWG 230 | Feminisms and the Fate of the Planet | Lisa Armstrong |
| SWG 238 | Women, Money and Transnational Social Movements | Lisa Armstrong |
Five College Courses
In addition to those Smith courses listed above, there are a number of CBL courses offered through the Five Colleges.
Contact Us
The CCC supports faculty and staff in many ways, helping to make connections with community partners, supporting student placements and more. Please contact us to learn more about how we can support your teaching and research.
