Brown University

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The Engaged Scholarship Certificate allows students to investigate public, civic, and/or social justice issues that they are passionate about through the integration of academic study with community-based learning, research, and action. Students pursuing the Engaged Scholarship Certificate conduct intensive interdisciplinary inquiry into a topic or issue area of their choice (e.g., criminal justice reform, educational equity, environmental justice), coupled with direct engagement with communities, organizations, and practitioners outside of the academy. The certificate has four requirements - a foundational seminar, a three-course interdisciplinary elective sequence, a community-based practicum, and a capstone - that together advance students’ learning and skills to contribute to the world beyond Brown.

As with all undergraduate certificates, students may only have one declared concentration. and must be enrolled in or have completed at least two courses toward the certificate at the time they declare in ASK, which must be no earlier than the beginning of the fifth semester and no later than the last day of classes of the antepenultimate (typically the sixth) semester, in order to facilitate planning for the experiential learning opportunity (practicum). Students must submit a proposal for their practicum by the end of the sixth semester.

Students in any concentration may pursue the Engaged Scholarship Certificate. No concentrations are excluded.

Certificate Requirements:

Each student will take a required foundational seminar and propose a set of three experiences—a three-course interdisciplinary elective sequence, a community-based practicum, and a capstone—related to their issue area focus.