Free Intro. to Community Engagement Course Materials from VCU

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is proud to share a new open-access Introduction to Community Engagement course curriculum. The curriculum materials are free to use at your own college or university — please share widely with your education colleagues. The curriculum materials are licensed under a Creative Commons-NonCommercial license.

This 15-week curriculum was originally developed by the VCU Division of Community Engagement for the VCU Honors College to be offered to first-year undergraduates as a 1-credit required course.

The online materials include:

• course syllabus,
• weekly lessons (including week-by-week learning objectives, lecture materials, readings, media resources, and assignments),
• reflection prompts, and a
• portfolio action plan

VCU hopes you will find this community engagement course curriculum useful in your own context. You can view student and faculty testimonials about the course here.

Note: The full and direct URL for the curriculum is https://rampages.us/intro-to-community-engagement/