EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION

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Overview

The Experiential Education requirement is designed to encourage students to gain educational experience outside of the traditional classroom. The experience is also designed to insure that the experience is linked to the academic component of the program. For example, the Experiential Education requirement may be satisfied by completing a coop work experience followed by an academic course in which students and faculty reflect on the value of the experience.

Goals

Among the goals of this requirement are:

• to examine the value of a experience outside of the classroom;
• to examine how learning in the classroom can be applied to activities outside the classroom: and
• to explore how the strategies of academic learning can be incorporated into endeavors after college.

Requirements

To achieve these goals, students must:

1. obtain relevant experience outside of the classroom (e.g., coop, research with a faculty member, directed study), followed by a course that helps the student make connections between this experience and academic learning;

2. Participate in a program in which experience outside of the classroom is inherently linked to academic work, for example an honors project, study abroad, or teacher certification.

How to Satisfy the Requirements

1. Take one of the following courses, each of which has as a prerequisite an experiential activity such as coop or directed study:

   BIO 1494 Biology Experiential Education Capstone

   PSY 1375 Clinical Case Study Development

   PSY 1610 Psychology and Personal Values

2. Complete a Junior/Senior Honors Project

3. Participate in the Study Abroad program

4. Complete a minor in Education for teacher certification

5. Complete a Directed Study (4 credits) which is related to a coop experience or which is a continuation of a prior Directed Study. The Directed Study must involve a written report.

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