Teaching Fellowship Program

I incorporate experiential learning into my courses by encouraging the carryover of course material with interprofessional communication observed in healthcare environments. Students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences while incorporating concepts and ideas that are discussed in class.   

Benjamin Schneider is Teaching Professor in the Honors College where he leads seminars in the Humanities. He is responsible for two experiential learning programs in Honors: the annual Alternative Spring Break trip to New Orleans and the Community Embedded Experiential Learning program. 

For my internship course, experiential learning and transferable skills have become a core value in the experience. This has already been a very fruitful experience and the students are gaining confidence in their contributions at their internships. I’m also applying this in my studio course by bringing in professionals who are doing technical demonstrations and incorporating time in the schedule to discuss careers and advice on goal setting for post degree employment success.  

In her roles, she supports experiential learning through service-learning and internships. Through the Experiential Teaching Learning Fellowship, she has rethought her internship course in WGS and is working with students to create professional materials including LinkedIn pages, current resumes, and more. In both experiential learning courses she teaches, Morgan focuses on students applying their learning and expanding their knowledge beyond the traditional classroom setting. 

The goal of the program is to impact the career readiness of undergraduate students by fostering greater instructor expertise and practices that can be applied to support the professional development of our students. Experiential Learning Fellows come together to share ideas and to cultivate practices that support infusing professional development into the UWM curriculum. 

Dr. Lentz teaches courses in the Criminal Justice & Criminology department at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His classes include a variety of experiential learning activities to strengthen key interpersonal and decision-making skills that students need for future workplace settings. Students in his classes can expect to work in groups to manage projects and engage in service-learning opportunities where they apply course concepts to help address current community needs and reflect on their experiences.

Professor Benesh will spend her time as Fellow working on ways to incorporate career readiness into courses across the curriculum in Political Science, ensuring students recognize the valuable skills they are building, can readily communicate the value of those skills to potential employers, and have a strong sense of what they’ll be best positioned to do after college.

Leslie J. Harris teaches and researches rhetoric and public culture in the Department of Communication. She will spend her time as a fellow developing an undergraduate course on careers in communication. In this course students will explore different careers in communication, while developing core competencies that are needed for a career in communication.

As a Faculty Fellow, Professor Hannula will develop a career-focused course that provides psychology majors with opportunities to explore their professional options, learn how to clearly describe and capitalize on their skillset, and craft a plan focused on future objectives so that they are well-prepared for what comes next whether that means entering the workforce or applying to graduate school. 

As a faculty fellow, Professor Pitt is developing a World Languages and Cultures course designed for students in any major with skills in a language other than English. Students will explore career opportunities open to graduates with multilingual and intercultural competencies, be able to articulate the transferable skills unique to them as language learners, and learn how to leverage their linguistic and cultural dexterity across a range of career pathways.