About Winter Term
How does Winter Term create an experiential learning environment?
DePauw University offers its students a contemporary liberal arts education. Its mission is to provide students an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to critical analysis, problem solving, and the leadership skills required to translate what is learned into effective action and success. DePauw students know how to think, speak and write effectively and within context. These are the touchstones of a good liberal arts education.
Our students will enter and lead a world filled with complicated predicaments related to energy and food resources, health, ideological conflict, the environment, and the economy. There is no better preparation to address these issues within a global community than a liberal arts degree from DePauw.
Participation in Winter Term courses, including courses on campus, allows students to focus intently on a single issue and explore its roots in complicated variables while developing, using, and honing the skills necessary for productive dialogue and action. Combining academic rigor, robust social interaction, and experiential learning helps students become clear thinkers and socially adept citizens who engage and change their personal and professional communities.
Who goes off-campus for Winter Term?
- 95% of graduates have at least one off-campus experience for credit
- 60% have at least one international experience for credit
- 45% complete a Winter Term or semester-long internship
Families
We encourage families to stay involved with us as we work together to support students in their off-campus experiences. Family members are welcome to join our Twitter and Facebook sites and stop in to visit our office in Greencastle.
How We Work with Students
Our location in the lobby of the Union Building allows us to be at the center of student activity. Our advisors, coordinators, and associate director and director level professionals host walk-ins at our advising bar to accommodate student questions.
We also spend time in the campus living units, student organizations and classrooms. Our staff provide the same services at the living units in the evening as we do during the day. We believe that taking away obstacles is the best way to engage students in these issues.
Finally, we know that every student is unique. This work cannot be done wholesale. The path a student chooses in life is uniquely theirs and we wish to be part of helping them make intentional and successful choices that contribute to their transition to life after DePauw.
Our Adherence to Professional Standards
DePauw University is a member of The Forum on Education Abroad, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization for the field of education abroad. We adhere to the Standards of Good Practice and Code of Ethics.