CSL and CBR in your coursework
Community Service Learning (CSL) is a model of learning that combines classroom learning with volunteer work to meet goals identified by community organizations. CSL gets you out into community settings where you can see how your studies relate to real-life issues and learn from the people immersed in those issues every day. When you do CSL as part of a UBC course, you’ll be challenged by your professor to think critically about the connections between what you are studying and what you are experiencing in the community.
Community-Based Research (CBR) is research that responds to a question that a community has identified as important or as an issue requiring further examination. Students doing CBR may do background research to allow a non-profit to advocate for policy change, or survey clients of a social service agency to find out how the agency can improve its services. When you do CBR as part of a course, you see how research methods work in different settings and learn how to analyze information to make it relevant to real-life issues.
Want to learn more? Read our feature stories to find out what other students have learned in the community and to better understand what such an experience would offer you.
