The CLAS Voyage

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has committed to ensuring that, beginning in Fall 2025, all undergraduate students are guaranteed five hands-on, career-connected experiences, including the Embarking Experience (a resource-rich first-year-experience course), and an ePortfolio that helps them connect their curricular, extra/co-curricular, and work-based learning. At the core of the Voyage is students leading their own journey, and in support of that, the experiential opportunities take many forms. 

Image of a Black male student using equipment with the professor, Peter Antor, in a jewelry-making workshop. In the background there is more equipment and a young white male student.

In the Classroom

  • Project/problem-based learning

  • Partnerships with community organizations, local employers, and/or global organizations

  • Creation of art

  • Performances

  • Lab work

  • Simulations

Two young white women on a field experience for a Biology course; they are standing by a river, both are wearing wading gear, and one is holding a large binder.

Beyond the Classroom

  • Field work/site work

  • Student teaching

  • Volunteering

  • Internships

  • Apprenticeships

  • Student employment at GVSU

  • Research with faculty

  • Study abroad


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