Students completing the Certificate in Civic Engagement will develop the capacity to:
1. Understand core concepts of civic engagement, civil society, civic agency, engaged citizenship and social action and their relationship to these concepts. (foundational knowledge);
2. Apply theory to practice by engaging with community partners through curricular and co-curricular experiences that develop their capacity to think critically about the context, impacts, challenges and opportunities of civic engagement activities (application);
3. Analyze types of civic actors (from small not-for-profits to transnational advocacy organizations), scopes of activities (local, national or global), and political (liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes) and economic environments (advanced industrial democracies or developing countries) in order to help understand their capacity and that of others to act effectively (contextualization);
4. Reflect on what it means to be an engaged citizen and the ethical implications of civic engagement activities (empathic practice);
5. Conceptualize and integrate applied skills, research, practice, and reflection to develop their own sense of agency, leadership, responsibility, self-confidence and civic skills (learning to lead).
