UNXD 1130 CBL: Social Action
Students collaborating in a classroom exercise around power and privilege.
Students in CBL course “Environmental Peacebuilding” working with neighbors at D.C. community-based organization, Soilful City.
Participants in Environmental Peacebuilding course gathering in community garden.
Registration for UNXD 1130 has closed for Spring 2025. For summer 2025, check out UNXD 1030 Intersections of Social Justice. Registration for UNXD 1130 for Fall 2025 will open in April. Email csjcbl@georgetown.edu with questsions.
Our Model
UNXD 1130 CBL: Social Action is a 1-credit course through Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service (CSJ) that offers students the opportunity to integrate their academic studies with community engagement experience in Washington, DC. Through reflection, UNXD 1130 students link their course of studies with community-based service and social justice work.
The 1-credit course is a substantial commitment that requires concentrated effort and a willingness to analyze one’s self and important social justice issues. Throughout the semester, students discover how knowledge and action can support and advance one another in the promotion of social justice.
Reach out to csjcbl@georgetown.edu for more information about UNXD 1130: Social Action if you:
- are a student looking for more information on connecting to a community partner or a course for UNXD 1130;
- are a professor wishing to promote UNXD 1130 through a course that you teach;
- represent a community-based organization who would like to host a UNXD 1130 student;
- have any inquiries regarding UNXD 1130.
How to Enroll
Program specifics:
- Enrollment in UNXD 1130 is contingent upon acceptance to the program through CSJ.
- UNXD 1130 is open to second-semester first-year students until the last semester of graduation
- Applications for UNXD 1130 are accepted on a rolling basis, ending the last day of add/drop.
Register for UNXD 1130 CBL: Social Action. Interest forms for UNXD 1130: Social Action open on the first day of registration and are accepted until the last day of the add/drop period.
Requirements for community partnerships:
- Community-based work should take place in/with a community-based organization (CBO). For UNXD 1130, a CBO is defined as a: government agency, non-profit organization, non-governmental organization or school that has, in part, a social justice mission.
- Community-based work should meet both the needs of the CBO and the learning outcome goals of the course.
- Community-based work should be in direct service, policy analysis, research, and/or advocacy work.
- Community-based work should engage the student with individuals or communities of need and with issues related to social justice, community development and/or access to basic human needs and resources.
- Community work must be performed over the course of the semester – approximately 3-4 hours per week for 10 weeks, for a semester total between 30 and 40 hours.
Course Components
Over the course of the semester, students in UNXD 1130 will:
- Formalize an agreement to serve approximately 3-4 hours per week for 10 weeks (30-40 hours per semester) with a CBO;
- Create/write and submit 3-4 reflective writing assignments and contribute short reflections weekly to a shared course Discussion Board and comment on your peers’ submissions.
- Submit weekly micro-reflections via CANVAS and comment on your peers’ submissions.
- These requirements are intended to encourage students to consider the connections between the community work and classroom-based learning, as they pertain to social justice and personal development.