Through a self-design plan, students have the opportunity to innovate, explore, and expand their boundaries. This personalized opportunity allows students to design a unique and meaningful Discovery Semester experience that combines their personal, professional, or educational interests.

A self-designed experience is a student-curated opportunity in which students create their own personalized learning platform. Students create three (3) semester-long goals based on personal, professional, or educational interests. Examples include website or application development, foreign language study, or shadowing an industry professional.

Sample of recent self-design plans:

• Build a remote-controlled plan
• Prototype a robot
• Complete and publish a novel

Requirements

• Develop three (3) semester long career orientated goals. 
• Students must satisfactorily complete a mandatory LMS (ILEA 4400) course during their Discovery Semester.

Self-Design Planning and Registration

How to Register Your Experience

Office Contact for Questions and Guidance

• Dawn Cairns-Weaver, Associate Director, Experiential Learning & Cooperative Education
• Emily Nicholson, Assistant Director, Cooperative Education
• Stephanie Perry, Program Coordinator, Experiential Learning & Cooperative Education
• Nicole Doran, Assistant Director, Experiential Learning