| Title | From Classroom to Courtroom: Community Based Experiential Learning in the Coordinated Arts Program's Law & Society Stream |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2017 |
| Completion | 04/30/2020 |
| Project Summary | Situated in the Faculty of Arts, the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP) provides an enriched educational experience for first-year students through its cohort learning community. Groups of students take clusters of linked-but-separate courses in one of five research streams (http://cap.arts.ubc.ca/our-streams), are offered frequent interactions with their learning cohort, and are given extensive support from faculty and staff. Our project seeks to develop and integrate community-based experiential learning (CBEL) into CAP’s Law & Society stream, by establishing a long-term relationship between Law & Society students and community organizations working in and attached to the legal nonprofit sector. The Law & Society stream focuses its curriculum on how legal and political forces influence the everyday lives of diverse populations; bringing CBEL into this dynamic curriculum allows students to learn from a community group that works “in partnership with communities affected by poverty and social exclusion to identify priorities and develop solutions to complex human rights issues” (www.pivotlegal.org). |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Heather Latimer |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 40,016 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Heather Latimer, 12 Month Lecturer, Coordinated Arts Program / Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2018/2019 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Evan Mauro |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 9,948 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Evan Mauro, Coordinated Arts Program, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2018-TLEF-Final-Report-Mauro-WEB.pdf |