The immersive learning here means that we are actively putting knowledge into practice and that can happen inside or outside of the classroom. All of our classes are required to have an immersive learning element, but that's a bunch of different fun stuff.
My friend in SGD already gets to do motion capture in our lab, so they get that experience before they move on. Myself, I took a class called Criminal Investigations. Raleigh Police Department came over and did a fake little drug deal, so we used what we learned in the lecture to see how a police officer would respond to that situation.
The experience I've had with immersive learning is mostly most of my professors, they give us a problem, and they put us into groups. So it kind of mirrors like the real world going into like corporate jobs where you work with a team. So immersive learning means that we're getting practical education. I think that's very important, especially in today's employment landscape.
What I'm studying, it's biology and we go out. We've gone out over the last few years to Crabtree Creek, which is a local creek here in Raleigh, and is polluted by PCBs, which is the type of carcinogen. And we've been going out and catching catfish and surveying them, and we've been coordinating with our professors and different universities in the area to talk about how the carcinogens have kind of increased or decreased throughout the years.
This is the place to come for immersive learning. Our faculty are doing cutting-edge research with our students, they're engaged with the students, so much so that other universities are coming to us to learn how to do immersive learning, and you would really enjoy being here because it's going to give you that much more benefit to your education.
