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Immersion Experiences

Focus on a single topic or field you love.

Power of Experience Apply to Knox

Jump in the deep end.

Only at Knox–spend an entire term examining a profession, an academic discipline, or an issue that matters to you.

Our immersive experiences are designed to take you deeper into topics that interest you most, combining traditional classroom learning with hands-on experiences on and off campus. 

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Immersive Terms

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Clinical Psychology Term

Spend a term working in the same settings as psychologists, counselors, and social workers.

Clinical Psychology Term
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Green Oaks Term

Live and work out at our 700-acre Green Oaks among a small community of students and professors.

Green Oaks Term
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Open Studio

During Open Studio, you’ll prepare for a senior exhibition of your artwork without other distractions. You’ll meet regularly with your artist mentor and engage in regular critiques as you refine your vision and experience life as a working artist.

Open Studio
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Repertory Theatre Term

It’s the only undergraduate theatre program of its kind. Spend 10 weeks designing, building, rehearsing, and performing two full-length productions as part of a working repertory theatre company.

Repertory Theatre Term
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StartUp Term

You don’t have to be a business major to start your own business. You’ll pitch your business ideas to a panel of faculty and successful entrepreneurs, develop a business plan, analyze markets, and create a product. And your startup doesn’t have to close up shop at the end of term, either.

StartUp Term
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Immersion Summer: Six Weeks of Collaborative Research

Experience the life of a working scientist. Join a team of student and faculty researchers to pursue discoveries in areas from AI to media literacy.

Summer Scholars Program
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Short-Term Immersive Experiences: One, Two, or Three Weeks

Take what you’ve learned in the classroom and put it to work. Teach at a Navajo reservation school. Put your Spanish language skills to work helping immigrants in border communities. Take part in an archaeological dig in Jordan. Or build your network making new professional contacts in Chicago, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and beyond.

Kansas City PIE Trip Chicago Summer Short-Term Immersive Experiences

The Power of Experience

Immersive experiences are a key part of your Knox education. What you learn in the classroom is even more valuable when you see the difference it makes in the real world. In fact, it’s so important we’ll give you up to $2,000 to pay for equipment, travel, or living expenses.

$2,000

Power of Experience Grant

90%

Graduation rate of immersive term participants, 17 points higher than the overall student population.

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Immersion terms focused on a single topic

Prairie Burn at Green Oaks

Have you ever set a prairie on fire? (Don’t worry, it’s for science.) Each spring, students from all academic disciplines come together to protect and nurture the native tallgrass prairie at Green Oaks by conducting a controlled burn. It’s the kind of learning experience you could never get from a textbook.

What Students Say

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    “[Rep Term] is kind of the main reason I decided to go to Knox.”

    —Kamana’okekai Lattig ’25

  • A headshot of Casey smiling at the camera.

    “Green Oaks Term is the most comprehensive field biology I've ever done. I love it!"

    —Casey Stachelski ’16

  • Dianell sitting in a classroom smiling.

    In Clinical Psychology Term, you learn what “you would learn in grad school, which is really awesome.”

    —Dianell Vega '20