National Collegiate Honors Council
National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters
Date of this Version
2025
Document Type
Book Chapter
Citation
Where Honors Education and Faculty Development Meet [NCHC Monograph Series], John Zubizarreta and Victoria M. Bryan, editors, chapter 8, pages 113-134
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2025
Abstract
Although the collaboration between the University Honors Program (UHP) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and UNL's Center for Transformative Teaching involves several elements, this essay focuses on one element with significant impact: the development of curricular components and co-curricular programming facilitating students’ engagement with experiential learning. Experience-based education is learning that occurs through direct, hands-on experiences such as internships, research, education abroad, and teaching practicums. When UNL moved toward requiring experiential learning for all undergraduate students, the partnership between UHP and CTT was transformational in facilitating UHP’s building on its existing framework for experiential learning and thus serving as a model as the campus developed additional experiential learning opportunities for all students. Through this partnership, UHP revised the existing experiential learning course to combine theory with practice and, building on lessons learned in this process, infused the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) into three additional initiatives grounded in experienced-based learning.
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