CBLR Fellows work with faculty on planning and/or implementing specific engaged courses. While fellows’ responsibilities vary, they may serve as important peer mentors for students enrolled in the course to which they’re assigned, as well as liaisons between students, faculty, community partners and Swearer Center staff.
Community-Based Learning and Research Fellowship
Structure
In addition to supporting students' ongoing involvement with community partners or topics that are important to them, this leadership experience should ideally align with the student's academic interests and enhance their communication, partnership-building, organizing, and problem-solving abilities. Although the duties of fellows differ slightly from one course to the next, they all require approximately seven hours per week.
- Curriculum development (e.g., identifying relevant course resources, designing assignments or reflective activities, etc.).
- Facilitating specific class discussions, reflection sessions, and/or holding student office hours.
- Cultivating and coordinating relationships with community partners.
- Mentoring students around community engagement components of a course.
- Documenting and disseminating the results of engaged courses.
- Supporting longer-term engagement with community partners.
More than one fellow can be matched with faculty of larger courses so that each fellow is responsible for no more than 20 students.
Courses with fellows 2020-present
*Some courses are not currently offered.
Anthropology
ANTH 1300: Anthropology of Addiction and Recovery
ANTH 1300: Anthropology of Homelessness
ANTH 1515: Anthropology of Mental Health
Education
EDUC 0540: Language and Education Policy in Multilingual Contexts
EDUC 0560: Cultivating STEM Identities: Teaching for Equity in the STEM Classrooms
EDUC 1190: Family Engagement in Education
EDUC 1320: Turning Hope into Results: The Policy Ecosystem of the Providence Public Schools District
EDUC 1615: Introduction to Community-based Participatory Research
English
ENGL 1180V: Contemporary Asian American Writers
Engineering
ENGN 900: Managerial Decision Making
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 1000: Introduction to American/Ethnic Studies
ETHN 1750A: Immigrant Social Movements
French
FREN 1410: The Refugee Experience: Migrations, Displacements
FREN 1410T: l’Expérience des réfugiés et des immigrés: déplacements, migrations (The Refugee Experience: Migrations, Displacements)
Gender and Sexuality Studies
GNSS 1300: Gender-Based Violence Prevention
GNSS 1510A: Reproductive In/Justice
International and Public Affairs
IAPA 1801F: Prison Abolition as Transformative Justice Policy-A Senior Seminar
Literature
LITR 1152C: Writers-in-the Community Training & Residencies
Public Health
PHP 1550: Substance Use and Vulnerability to Addiction
PHP 1650: Race, Racism, and Health
PHP 1822 Effective Health Communication For Medically Underserved Populations in an Applied Learning Setting
PHP1821 Incarceration, Disparities & Health
Portuguese
POBS 1740: Artful Teaching
Sociology
SOC 1120: Market and Social Surveys
Funding
CBLR Fellows receive a $1475 stipend for each semester.
Students as Colleagues
The Swearer Center understands the work of CBLR Fellows as partners in community-engaged teaching, learning and research, peer mentors and leaders, reflection leaders and engaged scholars.
The CBLR Fellowship is a leadership opportunity where student fellows are colleagues working alongside faculty and community partners; thus, the Swearer Center is intentional about the program being called a fellowship rather than a teaching assistantship. The word “fellow” signifies the more broad-ranging work that a student participates in alongside their faculty partner — with an emphasis on the peer-like connotations of the word “fellowship” (i.e., being a peer mentor and support person for students enrolled in their assigned courses).
In some courses, CBLR Fellows also may be collaborating with a teaching assistant.
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