ABSTRACT
Several disciplines use fieldwork as a location for laboratory-style instruction. More and more departments are including internships in their curriculum. Increasingly, colleges include service learning or other forms of experiential learning as part of their degree requirements. Thus, a field classroom can be any location outside of the ordinary classroom buildings. For language learning, it might be a study abroad program. For environmental sciences, it might be a marsh at the edge of the football stadium. For geology, it might require a bus ride to a glacial moraine several miles from campus. For service learning, it might be a cultural center in the heart of an ethnic neighborhood. For a creative nonfiction class, it might be a meeting of the historical preservation commission. For an oral history course, it might be a retirement home. For an internship, it might be the local radio station. Several of the disciplines mentioned even conduct summer field schools whose sole purpose is to permit students to travel greater distances from campus and remain there, undistracted, for longer periods.
