Examples of CSL and CBR in coursework
In past years, Community Based Experiential Learning (CBEL) opportunities, including Community Service Learning (CSL) and Community Based Research (CBR) projects, have challenged students to explore critical social and community issues such as sustainability, social marginalization, poverty, and gender politics.
If you opt to take a course with a CBEL component, you’ll learn more about yourself, your community and how what you learn in class is relevant to life outside the classroom.
Examples of past projects include:
- Faculty of Applied Science: Students in Civil Engineering worked with the Light House Sustainable Building Centre to build an outdoor garden planter made from recycled materials. Once the planters had been constructed, native plants and seasonal vegetables were seeded. Students also designed a rainwater capture system.
- Faculty of Arts: Students in Community Psychology worked with the team at Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC, cataloguing qualitative evaluations, transcribing sensitive material and providing office assistance as needed.
- Faculty of Land and Food Systems: Students contributed to the Vancouver Fruit Tree Project, helping the organization identify social enterprise options to secure a more reliable source of revenue.
- Faculty Sauder School of Business: Students in e-Marketing acted as e-business consultants and provided recommendations on how e-business and the internet could be leveraged for business advantage. This included preparing a web strategy for The Happy Tree Company, an eco-concept store located in Terrace, BC.
See these additional examples of CBEL opportunities. To find a course with a CSL component in your faculty, email CSL Coordinator in the Faculty of Arts Heather Turnbull at heather.turnbull@ubc.ca or phone her at 604.822.1943.
