Experiential Education Course Categories and Definitions
Clinical Experience-Experiential Learning
Advanced knowledge, skills, and tools applied under supervision in a clinical setting.
Community Engaged Course (CEC)
Integrate community partnerships into course curriculum through projects and activities, providing students with the opportunity to work with community partners, apply knowledge and skills learned throughout their academic career, and solve challenges facing our world today.
Internship
Knowledge, skills, and tools applied in a range of professional work situations with varying levels of independence and intensity. Class activities complement job responsibilities and connect them to the student’s academic and career goals.
Practicum
Introductory practice, knowledge, and skills in pragmatic situations under close supervision.
Study Abroad
A learning experience administered by University of Iowa Study Abroad or taught internationally. Courses take place outside of the U.S. for a portion or entirety of the course. Experiences expand the student’s worldview, provide opportunities to learn about other cultures, build skills for cross-cultural work settings, and/or improve world language skills abroad.
Undergraduate Research
An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline. Please review the Office of Undergraduate Research's guide.
Course Library Report
This report provides a listing of active courses in the MAUI Course Library for the selected session.
The report can be filtered by college, academic unit, subject key, and/or course level.
Use this report to review current course information and category assignments.
Requesting an Experiential Education Category
If you believe that your course meets one or more of the course category definitions, submit the request form.
- Please note that while a course can be approved for more than one category, a separate request form will need to be submitted for each category.
- Community engaged courses are categorized at the section level and must be re-categorized each semester. Use the request form link to re-designate a course with this category.
- Clinical experience, internship, practicum, study abroad, and undergraduate research are categorized at the course level and keep the category for multiple semesters.
Course Category Request Form
Use this link to the workflow form to submit the course information for categorization approval.
Course Category Review and Placement Process
The information you provide on the workflow form will be reviewed by the Office of the Registrar and the offices listed below. If there are any questions, the offices will reach out. If approved, you will be notified once the category has been applied. Your course will then be available in the public search function by category for students on MyUI, will be included when administrators pull data by categories, and will be automatically pulled into engagement records of students who are enrolled in the course.
Questions?
Contact the office listed below that manages the specific course category or the MAUI Course Library team at reg-course-approval@uiowa.edu.
