| There are many opportunities to create a unique academic experience while enrolled in The College. Special research centers and resources allow students to incorporate real-life projects that encourage the entrepreneurial spirit. For information about these opportunities, please select a link below:
First Year Forum
Making the transition from high school to a liberal arts college of a major, student-centered research university is challenging, scary, and exciting--all at the same time. The First Year Forum is designed to help ease this transition.
The College of Arts and Sciences offers first-year students opportunities to work with members of the faculty and other students in small groups. The experience is social and intellectual, designed to help you become active members of The College and the local community.
Learn more about First Year Forum
i-Learn
The popular iLEARN programs help you complement traditional classroom and laboratory work with independent experiential learning opportunities. The following are special programs sponsored and assisted by i-Learn:
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Soling Program
The Soling Program challenges students from all majors to utilize their creative, technical and communication skills to solve "real-world" problems. Working with business, non-profit, University and community sponsors, Soling students collaborate in a non-competitive environment to meet the needs of the professional world.
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Undergraduate Research Program (URP)
In URP you join ongoing faculty projects for academic credit. As an apprentice, you work closely with supervisors while pursuing your own independent line of research, or through innovative team projects with community organizations.
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Allport Project
The Department of Psychology’s Allport Project pairs students majoring in psychology with faculty mentors to build a portfolio based in skill areas. You focus on issues regarding research methodology, communication, and technology.
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Mock Trial
Mock Trial is an excellent opportunity for students who are thinking about law school, or who simply like the idea of working with a motivated group of students on an exhilarating and intellectually based team. Working with this successful and nationally recognized group has a dramatic impact on your research and communication skills.
The Center for Health and Behavior
The Center offers the student the opportunity to explore the behavioral aspects of health through research.
At the Center, we do all of the following:
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Research the behavioral and psychosocial aspects of health;
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Study the health effects of aging, alcohol use, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, smoking, and stress;
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Develop and evaluate programs to promote health in children, adolescents, college students, adults, and families; and
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Include undergraduate and graduate students as well as other trainees in our work.
Contact the Department of Psychology for more details.
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The Honors Program
The College of Arts and Sciences sponsors the Honors Program, which is open to any student in the University. You share classes with students from all undergraduate schools and colleges. Unique classes and seminars focus on intense, in-depth intellectual exploration, special cultural events, and interaction with faculty and other honors students to provide an individually engaging education usually found at very small colleges, without sacrificing the rich diversity of academic opportunities available at a large university.
Honors students enjoy the help of a dedicated office staff; use of an honors suite of offices that includes space for students and faculty members to gather informally, a library, an honors computer cluster, and special honors seminar rooms; participation in the National Collegiate Honors Council; and access to a wide variety of periodicals and newspapers.
SU Abroad
Study abroad for a semester, a summer, or a year through the SU Abroad without interrupting your degree program and without proficiency in a foreign language. Approximately 1,500 students from all colleges within the University and from universities across the United States study abroad through SU Abroad each year. At centers in Beijing, Chile, England, France, Italy, Spain, and Hong Kong, students are taught by distinguished local faculty members or SU faculty members.
SU Abroad offers additional opportunities at foreign universities in many other countries, including Australia, Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Poland, and Russia. Summer sessions abroad are available and vary from year to year at SU centers and other sites in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS)
If you are interested in volunteering, on campus or off, The Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS) helps you choose among a variety of volunteer projects. Some projects qualify for academic credit.
CPCS reflects the University’s heritage and guiding values of Quality, Caring, Diversity, Innovation and Service. Through CPCS endeavors, these values spill over into every aspect of campus culture, thereby enhancing our tradition of service and social responsibility in keeping with the University’s mission to learn through teaching, research, scholarship and creative accomplishment.
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