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 Experiential Learning
Individualized majors participate in a wide array of experiential learning including study abroad, internships, research, and community service. More than one-third of individualized majors study abroad and more than half complete internships. Click on the profiles below to read what recent IMJRs have to say about their study abroad and internship experiences.
- Study abroad helps you build academic and personal strength and challenges you to see the world and your own society from new and varied perspectives.
- Internships offer you insight into a particular career path, give you practical work experience and provide you with an opportunity to network with other people who share your interests.
- Engaging in community service provides you with deeper insights into a range of issues and helps you develop organizational and leadership skills. The Community Outreach office has semester long programs and Alternative Break and Weekend programs with a wide variety of themes including, health and human services, homelessness, LGBTQ activism, hurricane relief and Native American concerns.
- UConn’s Learning Communities can also provide you with experiences that will connect your academic work to the “real” world. There are several Living Learning Communities focused on themes of interest to a significant number of individualized major students, such as Global House, EcoHouse, Public Health/Public Service, and Social Justice in a Global Community.
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The Urban Semester program in Hartford offers internships alongside weekly seminars for students with interests in urban and community affairs such as education, human services, social justice and advocacy, the criminal justice system, and the welfare system.
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