Expeditions in Learning: Examples

Potential Expeditions

(A more complete list will be made available weekly during the semester of other current events and activities on campus).

Attend a distinguished lecture series lecture
Attend a job talk from a candidate from another department
Attend a student recital, art opening, or concert
Attend the undergraduate research symposium
Attend multicultural center event
Attend ethnic festival, movie, dinner
Attend GBLT event
Observe a student organization meeting or event
Take a campus orientation tour
Attend any of the multiple lectures on campus everyday
Participate in an international student event
Attend a student rally or protest
Attend a faculty senate meeting or department meeting
Drop-in or self-directed activities
Walk through a building on campus you’ve never been in during class time and listen to the types of things being taught and discussed. Stick around during class change and observe the students as they walk through the hallways.
Visit the campus museums
Stay out late at the student union and observe student life
Campus walkabout
Read the student paper for a week and keep a journal about your reflections from the articles, editorials, and activities
Practice your work with by disabling one of your abilities.

Stay overnight in residence halls
Go on a ride-along with the police Madison metro ride (see where your students live)
Attend a faculty dinner at Chadbourne Residential College
Spend time at McBurney Resource Center and talk with staff
Sit in on a class as an adult student
Inquire with a faculty member if you can sit in on their class from a discipline very different than yours (African Storyteller, Women’s Studies courses, Political Science, etc.)
Arrange to do a peer review, or be peer reviewed with someone from a very different discipline
Interview person from different social class, ethnicity, age, gender, race, sexual orientation, tribal college, etc.
Interview a student or faculty member about their life, profession, and choices.