The following resources offer guidelines for faculty and tips for students in courses that include field experience.

LAS Task Force Report: Guidelines to facilitate student field activity

Community conduct & safety tips (A handout for students prepared by the Steans Center)

Resources and Further Reading

Incorporating Field Experience in the sciences. While this page was created for geoscience, it remains relevant to all subject areas offering pedagogical foundations for structuring field labs, managing time in the field, and supporting students with special needs.
The site also offers a large collection of geoscience field work posters, describing learning outcomes, locations surveyed, lesson plans, and review points.

Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning

• Supports faculty in the development, administration, and teaching of courses that integrate service-learning pedagogy
• Identifies project opportunities at non-profit organizations
• Provides ongoing logistical support for faculty teaching a service learning course
• Offers workshops on reflective practice for service-learning integration

University Internship & Co-op Program

• Supports faculty throughout DePaul in developing, enhancing and maintaining high-quality academic internship programs
• Advises faculty in the development and teaching of academic internship courses

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