Community Engagement and Education at UW-Milwaukee

About

Students explore the causes of inequality in urban communities and learn about strategies for addressing urban challenges. Our students learn leadership, and entrepreneurship skills that support careers in a wide range of community-based nonprofits, government agencies, schools, and other public service areas.

Program offered:
- Fully online
- Face to face
Students can earn college credit for prior professional experience
Credits also awarded for eligible military education and for AAS degrees that would not normally transfer to UWM

Our Students Work In

Community-Based Organizations, as
- Program directors
- Youth workers
- Community leadership facilitators
- Adult community educators
- Youth leadership facilitators
- Community program entrepreneurs
Foster care agencies
Government
Child care centers
Private schools as teachers and leaders
A wide range of community-based change efforts
And many other community-based and community-related settings

Our department offers the only undergraduate focus on Community-Based Organizations in Wisconsin, as well as unique offerings in Child and Family Services (in collaboration with the Department of Social Work), Child Care (programs which satisfy Registry requirements), Community Leadership, Alternative Education, and more. Many students also develop their own focus areas out of our rich course offerings.

Courses Offered

Daytime
Online
Weekends

Credit Awarded for

Prior Professional Educational Experience—up to 42 credits may be earned, and all credits after the first three are free
Military education
Technical college degrees
- Articulation agreements increase credit transferred from Human Services and Child Care degrees earned at MATC and other technical colleges
- The CEED program awards credits for technical college AAS degrees that wouldn’t normally transfer to UWM

Curriculum

CEED BS Requirements

Community Engagement & Education (CEED) Bachelor of Science Degree Requirements

Credit for Prior Professional Experience (PPEE)

The CEED major values the experience you bring to the program. Students with a range of work and community experience may earn up to 42 lower-division credits by taking exams. Students pay for 3 credits, and any additional credits earned through exam are free. CEED is the only major at UWM that offers PPEE credits.

Certificates and Submajors

Most students in CEED build their own program by choosing classes that fit their interests.

CEED also offers a series of transcript-designated certificate programs and submajors designed for students interested in specific careers.

Child Care (Submajor Requirements)
Child and Family Services (Submajor Requirements)
Community Based Organizations: Policy and Leadership (Submajor Requirements)
Community Leadership (Submajor Requirements)
Youth Work (Certificate Requirements)

Minor

The minor in Community Engagement and Education is open to all undergraduate students. With this minor students can learn about local urban communities and how to improve them. This practical knowledge can provide a foundation for building a career in human services.

Community Engagement & Education (CEED) Minor Requirements