Spring 2027

Community and Social Innovation Lab

Community and Social Innovation Lab involves developing and implementing a social change project with a community partner to address systemic issues through project-based work.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply a deep understanding of community transformation, social innovation, and human ecology knowledge and skills to a complex project

  • Develop and implement project plans, considering scope, timeline, resource allocation, and evaluation, to create and deliver social transformation projects on schedule

  • Demonstrate creative and critical thinking in the synthesis of foundational ideas applied to a social change project

  • Communicate the results of their project to both academic and non-academic audiences, focusing on how the work contributes to positive systemic change

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Prerequisites

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CSCS 255 or 455

CSCS 555

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Student experience

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Develop and implement a social change project in collaboration with a community partner. Explore diverse approaches to changemaking and address systemic issues through project-based work.

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Topics

  • Social change projects and community partnership.
  • Changemaking approaches and systemic issues.
  • Community transformation, social innovation, and human ecology.

Skills

  • Exploring diverse approaches to changemaking and addressing systemic issues.
  • Developing and implementing project plans including scope, timeline, resource allocation, and evaluation.
  • Applying creative and critical thinking to synthesize foundational ideas for social change.
  • Communicating project results to academic and non-academic audiences regarding systemic change.

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CSCS 555 · Spring 2027

Community and Social Innovation Lab

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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