EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

BE HANDS-ON

Though BUA students get plenty of opportunities to discuss intangible concepts, they also get to explore ideas empirically through lab work, demonstrations, and active involvement. You might examine angular momentum by spinning your lab partner on a stool or create a dramatic, fast-growing tower by dehydrating sugar with sulfuric acid. AT BUA, YOU

PREDICT, OBSERVE, EXPLORE, QUESTION, MEASURE, AND TEST THEORIES YOURSELF.

Ninth- and Tenth-Grade Seminars give you opportunities for fun, hands-on learning without the added pressures of grades or homework. These meet once a week and rotate through various topics of study: Health and Wellness; Cultural Competency; Computer Science; Design Thinking at the Boston University Innovate and BUiLD Lab; Engineering at BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC); and Foundations in Language and Logic. With our Boston location and access to a major research university, experiential learning opportunities abound. Interested in auditory neuroscience? You could write your senior thesis with a leading expert in the field of biomedical engineering. Fascinated by biochemistry? Consider spending your summer researching x-ray crystallography in the lab of a BU chemistry professor. Ardent about art? Maybe you’d like to dive into the work of a historic painter you admire or collaborate with a contemporary studio artist.

WHATEVER YOUR PASSION, THERE’S A PATH TO EXPLORATION.