Bridge Experience Program
Our flagship program, the Bridge Experience Program, enables students to integrate academic knowledge in professional context related to their intended career paths.
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What are bridge experiences?
The Bridge Experience Program will launch Virginia Tech’s plan for all undergraduate students to learn experientially through place-based opportunities and to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities for success in their future endeavors. This student learning initiative empowers disciplinary faculty to implement a bridge experience requirement connecting students’ disciplinary knowledge and skills to an experience aligned with their post-graduation goals using research-based learning processes.
Bridge experiences help prepare students for post-graduation life and develop a professional identity. They offer opportunities to apply specific disciplinary knowledge to contemporary problems and questions, and they often take place in a professional environment, during the final years of a student’s academic journey. Students may be engaged in several intensive experiential learning opportunities during their time at Virginia Tech, but a bridge opportunity is one that a student designates as likely to help them move into specific post-graduation plans. Typical bridge experiences include undergraduate research, internships, and other place-based experiences.
Students engaging in a bridge experience will be able to
- Apply and connect their learning across academic and professional settings
- Demonstrate professional self-awareness by articulating their personal and professional development; and
- Demonstrate a dedication to using their knowledge, skills, and talents in service to others, communities, and/or their field.
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