The University of Toledo

Welcome & Mission

The Center for Experiential Learning and Career Development works to connect students to meaningful learning experiences and assist students with major and career exploration.

We assist students who are exploring majors and careers. Our online assessment program, Focus, helps students explore their interests, skills, values, and personality to determine what majors and careers fit those best. Focus also has information about different careers, as well as how majors relate to various career options. We have an advisor on staff to help those students who are having a difficult time deciding.

Experiential learning is defined as formal, supervised learning experiences that rely substantially on students’ applying through direct experience the knowledge and information acquired through reading, simulations or electronic exercises, faculty instruction, or other modes of learning directly within the context and duration of the course. Consequently, experiential learning entails the integration of

• knowledge—the concepts, facts, and information acquired through formal learning and past experience;
• activity—the application of knowledge to a “real world” setting; and
• reflection—the analysis and synthesis of knowledge and activity to create new knowledge.

Experiential learning may occur on campus, in the community, or both. Although many co-curricular student activities can also be categorized as experiential learning, approval for transcript notations applies only to those activities that are linked to students’ academic coursework.