welcome!The mission of the Center for Community Learning and Service is to engage UCLA undergraduates, faculty and community partners in programs that integrate teaching, research and service. We promote citizenship, leadership and social justice through service learning, internships and other community-based learning experiences. By so doing, we fulfill our obligation as a public institution to educate persons who are good global citizens. Our work in Los Angeles, the state, the nation and in the global community connects the research interests of faculty and students with the needs and priorities of our community partners.
In collaboration with academic departments, we offer UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to participate in a variety of structured and rigorous academic courses that link theory and practice. These activities also foster civic skills and knowledge, a service ethic, and an informed perspective on issues of diversity and democracy.
The Center for Community Learning is the undergraduate curricular arm of the Chancellor's "UCLA in LA" Initiative. For more information on this initiative, please visit the Center for Community Partnerships website: http://la.ucla.edu
how do i find an internship/service learning site?
Log-on to "MyUCLA". This will lead you to our searchable database of sites! You may also discuss placement options with our Coordinators here at the Center.
what's new?
Dr. Jennifer Jay from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been selected as a Faculty Fellow for the California Campus Compact - Carnegie Foundation Faculty Fellows: Service-Learning for Political Engagement Program, funded in part by the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America. Selection as a Faculty Fellow is a distinct accomplishment. Only 25 faculty members from public and private universities across the state have been chosen for this honor.
As a Faculty Fellow, she will be working with other colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines over the next two years to create, implement, and reflect on service learning in at least one of your courses with the goal of increasing students’ understanding, skills, and motivation for political participation. This work is important and complex which is why we are bringing together the most thoughtful and committed faculty to develop models of service learning that prepare young people for political engagement.
student spotlight
This section highlights outstanding
work done by UCLA students in the communities of Los Angeles. For more information please
click on the student's name.