Community Engaged Learning New Designation

This application is for a NEW CEL designation on a course. If you are re-designating a course that has an active CEL attribute, please use this application.

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is an educational approach that involves experiential learning and has several key components:
- Addresses a community-identified need;
- Is mutually beneficial for community and students;
- Intentionally integrates community-engaged work and academic learning objectives;
- Prepares students for engagement, including critical analysis of the structures leading to the community need and best practices for ethical engagement;
- And requires critical reflection on the community engagement.

Community Engaged Learning at the University of Utah strives to help students become civic-minded graduates. We believe taking CEL courses will help students develop their civic competencies: civic societal awareness, civic personal awareness, civic habits, civic skills, and civic values. Each civic competency has three criteria with outcome scales for evaluation. Review the full CEL Learning Outcomes Rubric.

The following are the CEL program learning outcomes. We do not expect these to be the learning outcomes of your individual course, and we do not expect an individual CEL course to meet all the civic competencies and/or criteria within each competency. We hope each CEL course will help students develop at least one or two of their civic competencies.

Please read each civic competency and select all the criteria you believe your course addresses and to which degree: