Center for Experiential Education

Experiential education builds knowledge, develops skills, and clarifies values by engaging students in direct experience, community engagement, and focused reflection.

The Center for Experiential Education includes:

Service-Learning: Service-learning offers students enrolled in certain courses the opportunity to volunteer at relevant not-for-profit organizations as part of the class.
Internships: Internships provide the opportunity to explore career options in a supervised work setting. Students can register for an internship course in one of Normandale’s departments, where they get paired with a faculty member who teaches the internship course. In the internship course students spend approximately 5-10 hours per week at an internship, earning 2-4 credits per semester.
Volunteering: We can provide you with recommendations of where to volunteer that matches your interests and goals.
Leadership Through Service: Students in Leadership Through Service are part of a supportive peer network of students that empowers them to positively impact their community on and off campus. Members volunteer at least 40 hours over the course of the semester and get a scholarship of $500. Students must be first generation college students and/or have unmet financial need.
America Reads and Counts: America Reads and America Counts is a program where Normandale students tutor Bloomington Public School children in reading, math, and after school homework help. Tutors can be a volunteer or if eligible, get paid through work study. Applications are accepted at the start of fall and spring semesters.
Campus Cupboard: The Campus Cupboard is a food pantry for Normandale students aimed at eliminating hunger as a distraction for those experiencing financial hardship. The Campus Cupboard operates in partnership with Good in the ‘Hood, a food shelf in Bloomington. Location: Activities Building (A2503)

For More Information

For more information about any of our experiential education opportunities, visit the Center for Experiential Education, call 952-358-8119, or email servicelearning@normandale.edu. Visit our website at www.normandale.edu/cee.