
City Leadership & Civic Engagement Honors Track
Lead Through Service in Newark - Develop leadership skills and create meaningful community impact through service-learning, coursework, and civic engagement.
Through CLCE, Honors scholars develop leadership skills while using their technical and major area expertise to serve our neighbors in Newark. CLCE offers scholars the opportunity to learn and grow in partnership with our neighbors, while developing valuable life skills. The track aims to develop our scholars as leaders, following a “servant-leadership” model through the following focused courses, community service, leadership colloquia, and project development.
Components of the City Leadership & Civic Engagement Honors Track:
- Coursework
- One research methodology honors course designated as part of CLCE (see below)
- One Newark-based course: History, Environment, Society honors course designated as part of CLCE (see below)
- Four elective honors courses.
- ENGL102 Honors is required for all Dorman Scholars as of Fall 2025 and applies here.
- One major capstone course
- Two service learning enhancement courses
- Service learning project
- Students will design and submit a service learning project proposal addressing a community need.
- Upon completion, students will pitch their project to a panel of faculty and Community Advisory Board members.
- Up to three students with the most applicable proposals will be selected to implement their projects with the service partner.
- Those not selected will collaborate with the chosen students to bring the projects to life.
- Two colloquia per semester (required to attend one CLCE Colloquium per semester
- Appropriate community service (15 internal hours + 15 external hours)
- Optional approved milestone experience: research, service abroad (such as Engineers without Borders, GlobeMed, etc.), co-ops, and internships*
*This counts as a course reduction
City Leadership & Civic Engagement Track Coursework
EPS 202H Society, Technology, and the Environment
STS 205H Introduction to Research Methods
HSS 410H Newark Narratives │ Curley, Jonathan
ARCH 679 Envisioning Newark │ Schuman, Tony
ENG 350H Newsroom │ Ascarelli, Miriam
IS 257H Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality │ Lee, Michael (also has service learning component)
HIST 338H Environmental Justice and Climate Change│Neil Maher
PSY 210H (STS 210H) General Psychology
STS 201H Understanding Technological Society
STS 221H Sociology
STS 363HM Intro to Sustainability Studies │ Cohen, Maurie
STS 308HM Tech & Global Development │ Rothenberg, David
STS 364HM Sustainability Policy & Practice │ Cohen, Maurie
STS 312HM Technology and Policy in Contemporary America │ Holbrook, James
COM 312H Oral Presentations
COM 313H Technical Writing
HIST 213H Twentieth Century World │ Kent, Scott
IS 350H Computers, Society and Ethics
MGMT 390H Principles of Business
BIOL 338H Ecology of Dining Hall │ Stanko, Maria
BIOL 498H Food for a Hot Planet │ Stanko, Maria
HSS 404H History Seminar: Movement of Migrants and Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean
Educational Outcomes:
- Students will understand the history and culture that shapes contemporary Newark (Proficiency)
- Students will be able to apply their academic major area to address a civic, social, or environmental problem (Mastery)
- Students will be able to design, organize and lead a volunteer program (Mastery)