BA Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration

The Community Engagement and Social Change concentration connects community work with academic life. Working with the oversight of a faculty adviser, you will combine interdisciplinary coursework and practical work in communities to expand and deepen your understanding of local, national and global issues that affect communities. You'll develop the skills, attitudes and knowledge to engage mindfully with communities as citizens and leaders.You will draw on the rich curricular offerings from all of the Five Colleges, as well as from the breadth of resources and expertise of the Jandon Center for Community Engagement to define a focus of study. Examples of students' areas of interest include immigration and citizenship, public health, education, law and policy, community organizing, community narratives and environmental justice. Depending on your interdisciplinary focus, you are encouraged to link your work to the considerable resources of the college's other centers and of the Smith College School for Social Work.