CELTS EXPL Courses
The Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship offers a number of engaged learning courses (EXPL courses, formerly UNIV) through the center. Throughout the academic year, staff from the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship teach a number of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses that engage Loyola students in experiential learning opportunities that take them beyond the traditional classroom. All these courses are open to students from all majors at the university's schools and colleges; all of them fulfill the University's "Engaged Learning" Requirement.
Each semester, look for these EXPL courses to be offered potentially:
Detailed information on the various CELTS courses and their instructors can be found in LOCUS or in the details below.
Fall Semester
EXPL 290 - Seminar in Community-Based Service and Leadership
OFFERED: Fall & Spring
Description: This is a seminar course that focuses on community-based service and leadership through service-learning, in which students will complete 40 hours of service over the semester at a non-profit organization.
Outcomes: Students will gain professional experience at an organization while reflecting on their service experience in the context of asset-based community development, civic engagement, social justice, leadership in the community, and service for the common good.
EXPL 390 - Internship Seminar: Organizational Change and Community Leadership
OFFERED: Fall, Spring, & Summer
Description: This seminar course focuses on organizational leadership and change through a 100-hour internship experience with a non-profit organization, government agency, or business organization, arranged by the student and pre-approved by the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship.
Outcomes: Students will gain professional experience at an organization while reflecting on their work experience and applying theories of organizational leadership, civic engagement, community development, and leadership in the community.
Spring Semester
EXPL 290 - Seminar in Community-Based Service and Leadership
OFFERED: Fall & Spring
Description: This is a seminar course focusing on community-based service and leadership through service-learning, in which students will work 40 hours over the semester at a non-profit organization.
Outcomes: Students will gain professional experience at an organization while reflecting on their service experience in the context of asset-based community development, civic engagement, social justice, leadership in the community, and service for the common good.
EXPL 291 - Introduction to Research
OFFERED: Spring Semester
Description: This is a seminar course focused on an introduction to research and community-based research. As an Engaged Learning course, students will work with a community partner on a community-based research project at a non-profit, community-based organization approved by the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS).
Outcomes: Students will reflect on their research plan and community-based research experience in the context of research as a service for the common good. For additional questions, please contact:
EXPL 390 - Internship Seminar: Organizational Change and Community Leadership
OFFERED: Fall, Spring, & Summer
Description: This is a seminar course focusing on organizational leadership and change through a 100-hour internship experience with a non-profit organization, government agency, or business organization, arranged by the student and pre-approved by the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship.
Outcomes: Students will gain professional experience at an organization while reflecting on their work experience and applying theories of organizational leadership, civic engagement, community development, and leadership in the community.
EXPL 391 - Seminar in Undergraduate Research Methods
OFFERED: Spring Semester
Description: This seminar course offers undergraduate students the experiential opportunity to engage in research while building their foundation of research methods. Students may be part of the Loyola Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LUROP) through a funded fellowship, or students may be working independently with a faculty mentor (volunteering in a lab, working on a research team). All students must have a research project with a faculty mentor identified prior to enrolling in this course. As an experiential learning course, students will need to be engaged in research with a faculty mentor concurrently to taking this course. Students must work a minimum of 5 - 10 hours each week over the semester on their research projects (10 - 15 hours per week over the summer session). Students will reflect on research experience in the context of understanding research paradigms, application of research methodologies, understanding the implications of ethical research, and preparing to present research professionally. This course will provide students engaged in research with the opportunity to develop a formal written research paper and poster, as if the students are preparing to present their research in a professional setting, such as the LUROP Symposium.
Summer Semester
EXPL 390 - Internship Seminar: Organizational Change and Community Leadership
OFFERED: Fall, Spring, & Summer Semester
Description: This is a seminar course focusing on organizational leadership and change through a 100-hour internship experience with a non-profit organization, government agency, or business organization, arranged by the student and pre-approved by the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship.
Outcomes: Students will gain professional experience at an organization while reflecting on their work experience and applying theories of organizational leadership, civic engagement, community development, and leadership in the community.
The Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship offers a number of engaged learning courses (EXPL courses, formerly UNIV) through the center. Throughout the academic year, staff from the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship teach a number of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses that engage Loyola students in experiential learning opportunities that take them beyond the traditional classroom. All these courses are open to students from all majors at the university's schools and colleges; all of them fulfill the University's "Engaged Learning" Requirement.
Each semester, look for these EXPL courses to be offered potentially:
Detailed information on the various CELTS courses and their instructors can be found in LOCUS or in the details below.