Designed to introduce students to shared public challenges and to help them cultivate the knowledge, skills, commitments, partnerships, and imagination required to orient their emerging expertise toward human flourishing and the common good. Scholarship is enriched by learning outside the classroom through engagement activities such as research, service, and reflection. May be repeated a maximum of four times with a different topic each time.

Focuses on pathways to excellence in scholarship and citizenship for students, enabling them to connect their transformational work in the classroom to opportunities for immersion, application, and engagement. Students will work with local nonprofits to learn how to address persistent community needs and challenges.

Examination of the criminal justice system, law enforcement, police, courts, and the corrections system through service-learning, as well as classroom instruction.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Explore concepts of power and privilege relating to global citizenship, service, and community-driven efforts. Students will be assigned leadership roles related to Engaged Learning courses at Baylor and will experience ethical, critical, and decolonial community-based learning and research practices.

Focuses on theory and practice of leading groups toward positive social change locally and globally, emphasizing issues such as poverty, public education, and systemic inequality. Students will participate in community engagement projects and activities on best practices for leading change.

Undergraduate research undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Intensive integration of academic study with service learning opportunities in the community. Course emphasis will vary by semester. Seminar discussions, readings, and personal reflection will enrich the community volunteer experience. A minimum of three hours per week of community service is required.

The role of public and private actors in the making and implementation of public policies directed to address complex problems. Special focus on the collaborative efforts of government and nonprofit entities as they seek solutions that contribute to the public good.

Introduction to legal practice. Contains community service component and required internship in legal offices.

Undergraduate research undertaken under the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.

Develop theoretical and historical frameworks to understand how social and economic innovation can be employed to promote human flourishing. Students participate outside class in social and economic innovation in the community through partner-led projects and interactions.

Develop understanding of how institutions across the public, private, and social sectors can collaborate and innovate to promote human flourishing. Involves partnerships with the City of Waco in which students apply learning to promote community improvement initiatives.

Examines historical, theological, and theoretical frameworks, along with strategies that encourage Christians to build, renew, and transform institutions. Students spend time outside class working with institutions throughout the community to promote human flourishing.

Explores the role of nonprofit organizations and the social sector in a democratic society. Evaluates effective practices in consultation with nonprofit leaders and engages with nonprofit partners to explore new innovations for social impact.

The role of philanthropy and civil society in public problem solving with an introduction to ethics and importance of financial giving and community investments. Students will spend significant time outside class working with foundations and nonprofits.

Advanced study in philanthropy, the social sector, and social innovation, with emphasis on cross-sector collaboration and innovative approaches to pursuing the public good.

Undergraduate research undertaken under the supervision of a faculty member. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours.