Experiential Learning Archives

February 17, 2023

Future Learning Lab Brings Immersive Environments to Carleton University

On Feb. 10, Carleton University officially launched its Future Learning Lab, a 34,000 square foot space that will uniquely benefit students through hands-on experiences with augmented and virtual realities and will enhance Carleton's leadership in... More

March 4, 2022

Student-Designed Digital Platform Aims to Inspire Girls to Enter STEM

What do a graduate computer science student and an undergraduate economics student have in common? The desire to close the gender gap in STEM. Coming from two different fields and stages in their academic careers,... More

December 20, 2019

Learning in the Field: Extensive Arts and Social Sciences Opportunities

From observing the inner sanctums of the military and RCMP or making an impact on local communities to conducting archaeological digs continents away, there are myriad practical ways Carleton University students in the Faculty of... More

March 27, 2019

A Showcase of Accessible Experiential Learning

During her second year at Carleton University in Engineering Physics, Stephanie Ellis began to lose her sight and went completely blind. Although she slowly got her vision back, no one was ever able to figure... More

January 30, 2019

Lessons from a Changing EU

The French have taken to the streets, and the British are taking to the exits. The great dream of a unified Europe has endured from the time of Charlemagne to the era of Macron, May... More

November 22, 2018

Experiential Learning in Belize

In 2015, after two decades of legal battles, an unprecedented Caribbean Court of Justice ruling reinforced property rights of the Maya people of Belize, enshrining their system of customary land tenure within the country’s constitution... More

October 30, 2018

Learning Through Experience

When Tayler Hernandez chose Carleton University for its unique Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) program, she knew she was in for an experience of a lifetime. Leaving North America for the first time,... More

October 15, 2018

Journalism Students Expand Their Narrative with Stories North

Madeline Lines, a fourth-year Journalism student at Carleton University, knows the golden rule of her craft like the back of her hand. "Objectivity, objectivity, objectivity." That's by no means a bad thing — with mistrust... More

October 1, 2018

International Internship Program Takes Students Across the Globe

Maheep Sandhu was preparing for the final day of his summer job before he returned for his third year in Carleton University's Global and International Studies (BGInS). But he hasn't spent the summer working at... More

March 2, 2018

The World is their Classroom

Tayler Hernandez left North America for the first time in her life and headed to Uganda to fulfill her international experience requirement as a student in the Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS), a... More

July 17, 2017

Stories North

Carleton journalism student Sandrine Murray stood beside a garage and storage facility in Carcross, a tiny Yukon community about an hour south of Whitehorse, talking to a local man named Johnny Johns. She was there... More