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Participating in experiences like internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, and student employment can help your personal and career development. Experiential learning opportunities can help you:
- test out a potential career path
- learn more about the work tasks and work environments that you prefer
- apply your learning from coursework
- grow your career readiness competencies
- build relationships
- make yourself highly marketable for future opportunities
This site defines experiential learning and provides you actionable next steps to find an experiential learning opportunity. We prioritize highlighting ways you can obtain paid experiential learning opportunities.
What is Experiential Learning (EL)?
Experiential learning (EL) is a process of learning by engaging and reflecting on meaningful experiences in and outside of the classroom. Students practice and expand course-based knowledge, strengthen their career readiness competencies like critical thinking, clarify their personal values, connect and contribute to communities beyond the university, and engage in reflection and metacognitive work. EL can help students find their “why” by understanding how academic learning is informed by the natural and social world.
EL occurs in a wide variety of settings across all disciplines. Some common forms of EL include internships, undergraduate research, service learning, field study, project-based learning, student employment, and study abroad.
Experiential Learning Cycle
EXPERIENCING: Active engagement through a concrete experience.
REFLECTING: Reflect on & process the experience, analyze, and make meaning.
THINKING: Conceptualize ideas and develop new insights. Connect theory and practice. Examine lessons learned.
APPLYING: Act and apply the knowledge gained in future experiences.
FEEDBACK: Continually identify improvement areas, reinforce learning.
Find Jobs, Internships, and Research Opportunities
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Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program
The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program (CUIP) provides full-time students the opportunity to learn valuable professional skills while supporting student resources.
Onboarding for On-Campus Student Employment
Learn more about work-study jobs, international student checklists, onboarding, blue cards, timesheets, and payments.