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Active Learning

There’s a powerful dimension of learning that comes from engaging with others, tackling tough problems, and being steeped in real professional environments. B-W will give you access to that dimension through internships, service learning, and other practice-based experiences. Through research projects and study tours, you’ll work side-by-side with your professors, contributing your ideas and benefiting from their experience. You’ll find ample opportunity to put your mind and hands to work.

• Internships. You’ll have your choice of internships in large and small businesses and non-profit and government agencies, both in Cleveland and around the world. While some majors require participation in the internship program, most students choose to participate voluntarily. Last year, B-W students completed approximately four hundred for-credit internships!
• Research opportunities. In addition to being dedicated teachers, B-W professors are passionate scholars and researchers. Best of all, they're eager to share their work with you. You'll find research projects in all fields. Off-campus, You'll have the opportunity to work on research in first-rate institutions and businesses in Cleveland and beyond.
• Service learning. You'll participate in thoughtfully-organized service experiences that are integrated into the curriculum.
• Study abroad and study tours. You'll have the chance to come into direct contact with other cultures through study abroad programs and through seminars that use on-site experience to enhance the classroom curriculum. The USA Study Tour, for example, takes a group of students and two faculty and staff members to points of interest across the country, where they explore various subjects in-depth and perform community service.
•  David Brain Leadership Program. Offered as a multi-disciplinary minor, The Brain Program in Leadership Studies is designed to educate people for and about leadership.  Students gain critical skills in research and presentation while working with a faculty advisor to develop service projects in the area of their major.
• Carmel Living/Learning Center. The newest residence hall on campus, Carmel provides students with a distinctive living and learning experience. Students living in Carmel take at least one common course per semester. These courses combine co-curricular assignments and activities with increased student-faculty interaction to provide students with a collaborative academic environment.
• Business Plan Clinic. At the clinic, you can work with faculty and entrepreneurs-in-residence to craft actual business plans for entrepreneurs looking to grow and/or improve their businesses. Students who participate in the clinic become fully trained in all aspects of business plan development.