Possibilities
at CPCS: Project-Based Learning
Each
year, the College offers a number of community-based collaborative
learning projects in which students team with faculty from the
College and community partners to work on community-based research
and technical assistance projects. These projects allow you the
opportunity to gain hands on experience in a number of areas while
demonstrating competencies. Some examples of recent projects include:
- Building
Chinatown for Chinatown: A collaborative project with
the Coalition to Protect Chinatown in which students engaged
in conducting environmental impact assessments, traffic studies,
and explored the impact of development on the Chinatown community.
- Teen
Girls Legal Project: A community and legal research
project examining issues facing young women in Massachusetts,
which resulted in a comprehensive guide for teen girls on their
legal rights and resources available to them. Published in June
2001, the college has received requests for thousands of copies
of the Guide from organizations and individuals across the state.
- Access
to Education: A participatory, action research project
in which students work with community partners from the immigrant
and refugee communities in Boston to assess the barriers to
higher education for immigrants and to develop support programs
to overcome those barriers.
- Impacting
Poverty in America: A collaborative project with Action
for Boston Community Development (ABCD). Students will generate
a body of locally-based information and data and develop initiatives
to complement and strengthen Boston 's capacity to impact various
manifestations of poverty.
These
collaborations provide dynamic experiential learning opportunities
for our students and invaluable assistance to our community partners.
Look for Project-Based Learning possibilities in each semester's
Instructional Activites
Book.
