The class meets weekly on Tuesdays, at 1:45-3:45 pm. These sessions are all online, via Elluminate. In addition, there is an oncampus day, Friday, October 16.

The week-by-week schedule below shows the outline for the entire course, organized in terms of Topics, Readings to be completed by the time of the session that week, and Assignments. For most weeks, there will be a brief agenda or link to slides for discussions in class, linked from the topic description. The reading citations are abbreviated, but complete citation information can be found in the Community inquiry bibliography.

Date	Topic	Read	Write
Aug 24	Intro to CE & class	Defining community engagement	—
Sep 1	Civic renewal in relation to LIS	Sirianni & Friedland, The civic renewal movement	Open Discussion -confusing/interesting points, things to know more about & discuss in class -how one of the movements connects to LIS
Sep 8	Roots of civic renewal, Hull House	Addams, Democracy & social ethics Addams, 20 years at Hull-House (1 chapter) Bruce, From Hull-House to Paseo Boricua Hull-House Museum	Open Discussion
Sep 15	Community engagement in libraries; distributed information use environments	McCook, Library education & the mission of the community Milam, Access for all Durrance et al., Community problem-solving Curry, Action research in action	Investigate: Analysis of a civic renewal movement
Sep 22	Community based research	Stoecker, Research for community change §§1, §§3 Durrance, Armed for action Odutola, Participatory use of video Sloane, nutritional resources
Sep 29	general notes LGBT leadership crisis (Phil)	Zemsky & Mann, Building organizations Sousa, ‘Netroots’ revolution Russell, America’s gay leadership crisis Osburn, LGBT Equality [details]
Oct 6	general notes K-12 community engagement (Laura, Marcela) Needs assessment (Jaime)	Fletcher, architecture of ownership Schutz, school-based community engagement what is service learning? [details] Taking the pulse Balaswamy, et al., Stakeholder participatory model [details]
Oct 13	general notes Visioning (Michele, Daylily)	Visioning in your community Organic planning San Jose, CA Bloomingdale Trail
On campus day schedule			Create: A poster for CE
Oct 27	general notes Youth development (Nick, Tim)	Youth development in community settings Positive youth development in the US
Nov 3	general notes Educational equity (Imani, Meadow)	Movement for Equity & Excellence Great Campus Library Media Tech Center	Ask: Case study / asset map
Nov 10	general notes Visioning, asset mapping (Dana, Anna) Elderly education (Naomi, Elyssa)	Asset mapping Re-constructing the urban landscape sustainable jersey aging agenda Information behavior computer training
Nov 17	general notes (Sharon Irish) Community technology centers (Simone, Licia); Youth courts & community justice (Sarah)	CTC’s & digital divide Restorative justice Teen courts
Dec 1	general notes Deliberation in public libraries (Elizabeth)
Dec 8	general notes visitor: Mei-Ling Wang, National ChenChi U, China		Reflect: A plan for CE