The College provides a wide array of Intensive Learning opportunities, including travel courses as well as on-campus courses. The majority of these courses are offered in May, during a three-week term. Dates for each travel course vary. Consult the detailed course descriptions.

Types of courses

  • Campus Courses - These are taught on campus, though some may include half-day or full-day trips off campus.
  • Field trip courses - These are taught mostly on campus but with overnight stays of no more than 5 nights off campus.
  • Travel Courses - These are taught mostly or entirely off-campus. There are two types of IL travel courses - domestic and abroad.

Firsthand Learning

The Intensive Learning Program provides a distinctive learning experience in which students and faculty share academic immersion and full-time engagement with a single course.

IL courses focus on a topic in ways that are not possible during the regular academic year. First and foremost, they emphasize active student participation. How? By moving beyond lecture to involve students in activities like the following:

Beyond Lecture

  • Debate, discussion, presentations, projects.
  • Labs, studio work, demos, case study.
  • Field trips, field work, observation.
  • Interviewing, surveys.
  • Films and videos, interactive media.
  • Guest speakers.
  • Simulations, stagings, reenactments.

The IL Program Director for 2012-2013 is Dr. Gail Steehler.

 

Palau

  

Argentina

  

France



"By going door to door and conducting interviews with the natives, I gained experience and knowledge which cannot be taught. This trip not only changed me as a student, but as a person as well."
- Giulianna Kelleher '14

  



"I was surprised at how well I was actually able to apply my foreign language knowledge in Spanish. I was also amazed at how I was able to learn so much in a short period of time of language immersion."
- Cullen Truett '13

  



"While in Paris, we learned the basics of promotions and all the different approaches, but we also got to relate and compare to promotions in another culture and country. Seeing this difference in advertising between cultures really helped me think about advertising in a more broad perspective."
- Niki Benedetto '13
 

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