Experiential learning

• Commerce and classics student Jacob Farrell, legal assistant at Appleby Picco Law through the Experiential Learning & Career Development Internship Program
• Music and psychology student Amelia Hurst, Independent Media Intern at campus and community media outlet CHMA
• Economics student Alan Kong is completing his second entrepreneurship internship as a videographer and photographer
• International relations student Chloe Duguay working as a Community Engagement and Research Intern at United Way Colchester this summer
• Environmental science student Catherine Minnaar, agriculture intern at small-scale vegetable farm, Willow Farm

• Behavioural ecologist looks at the lives of amphibians and reptiles
• Mount Allison student summer research looking at climate change, planning through different lenses
• Biochemistry student Sam McGaw spending summer studying heart health
• Mount Allison class partnering with Town of Sackville for survey around street names, monuments

Mount Allison's close-knit and engaging community extends across campus and beyond. For a small town, there are big opportunities to immerse yourself.

Our Community Engaged Learning program also offers community partnerships with academic instruction, integrating academic learning with community service.

Examples:

• Mount Allison students partner with Cumberland Restorative Justice Society
• Mount Allison's THRIVE foundation year program receives funding for student community projects
• Building community connections
• International relations student Ainsley Cunningham helps lead Tantramar Youth Network
• Mount Allison introduces new minor in Community Engaged Learning
• Religious studies class helped with design for rooftop garden

Mount Allison allows students to grow through entrepreneurial ventures in both the classroom and through funding opportunities to help you take your ideas and make them a reality.

Our new VentureSpace, an entrepreneurship thinking incubator, will help you build the foundation for a viable venture.

Examples:

• Commerce student Bryden MacDonald partners with Town of Sackville and Experiential Learning to create Maritime Paddle
• Student launches middle-grade novel about stuttering — thanks to Reisman entrepreneurship funding
• Enactus Mount Allison's Enviroot project aims to produce sustainable building materials derived from orange peels
• Fine Arts student establishes rug hooking business through Reisman Entrepreneurship Internship

You and your classmates can take trips to labs, aid organizations, businesses, and even mountaintops around the world and come face-to-face with today's realities. You'll gain a wide perspective and even create valuable professional networks for the future.

Examples:

• Behavioural ecologist looks at the lives of amphibians and reptiles
• The Business of Aviation: New Partnership with WestJet Airlines
• Religious Studies class builds rooftop garden

In your upper years, it is possible, in consultation with your department and with a faculty supervisor, to create your own independent study course on a topic that complements your degree and matches your specific goals.

Examples:

• Mount Allison PPE student turns interest in environmental justice, climate change into independent study
• Psychology student examines employee motivation and well-being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

Many students take advantage of opportunities to work during the academic year as teaching or research assistants, acquiring valuable skills.

Examples:

• Expanding support for first-gen students
• Mount Allison's Writing Centre expands services
• 5 questions with teaching assistant for women's and gender studies student Martha Kerr

Between the Music department (hosting more than 80 student, faculty, and guest concerts each year) and the Drama program (performing in our state-of-the-art Motyer-Fancy Theatre), students are given ample opportunity to perform on a regular basis.

The Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts and other student-run exhibition spaces also give students the opportunity to exhibit a wide range of artwork.

Examples:

• Mount Allison Fine Arts class captures individual COVID-19 experiences through digital photos
• Lassonde Curatorial Internship program delivering life-changing experiences to students
• Audiences return in record numbers to drama production at Mount Allison
• Fine Arts student Libbie Farrell’s artwork featured in LA show

Learn from others and share your own work at student conferences, and even win an award or two.

You can also put your knowledge to work on real-world issues in case competitions.

Examples:

• Mount Allison physics student earns students' choice award at CUPC conference, preparing to speak at international collaboration meeting
• Commerce student pens children’s book, invited to present at international conference on queer and transgender studies in religion
• Mount Allison Aviation student named Atlantic regional winner for Webster Memorial Trophy Competition  

Examples:

• Mount Allison launches two new international field schools in Scotland and Italy
• Mount Allison Global Skills Opportunity programs see four international field schools for 2023
• Mount Allison creates new exchange partnership in Germany