Academics can be an exciting adventure at Culver-Stockton College. It all depends on you and the choices you make about educational opportunities and hands-on experience.
EXP@CSC is our innovative four-year program of studies and experiences that prepares you for career success like no other college or university in the nation.
EXP@CSC integrates our innovative curriculum with the college’s outstanding co-curricular programs. Our students are continually learning and growing by living on campus in residence hall or Greek houses, participating on athletic teams, serving as leaders in student organization, performing in musical or theatrical events, exhibiting their visual art in our campus gallery, working on campus … and a host of other student involvement opportunities. Not only does this approach expand the educational experience, it also enhances career possibilities for students who earn a C-SC degree.
EXP@CSC begins your very first days on campus. It includes your freshman year experience, with seminars and foundation courses; the core curriculum; and a senior capstone experience. Every course and every major emphasizes experiential learning; and our 3-week opportunities, which are built into each semester, offer experiential learning options that include:
Immersion courses -- like studying fencing as part of the “History of Honor” or planting an organic garden as part of “Writers and Scientists Confront the Environment”
Internships -- like at companies in Quincy, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, New York or Washington, D.C.
Research -- like one student’s experiments with water from Egypt that reportedly cures skin diseases or our highly selective course in which students participate in a nationwide genomic research project
Travel-related courses -- like trips to the Grand Canyon to learn digital photography, or to the New Mexican pueblos to study Native American performance, or to Turkey, Great Britain, Egypt, the Netherlands, Belize and other exciting places
Students thrive on our welcoming campus, with highly personalized attention, and small class sizes that foster participation, lively discussion, and academic excellence.
From the very beginning, students get their hands on their educational experience. As early as the second semester of the freshmen year, students can take exploratory internships to check out a career field of interest. By the time they know their future career path, students can pursue professional internships at more than 700 companies across the United States – or develop an internship at a company of their choice. Internships can be taken during the 3-week portion of each semester, for a full semester, or over the summer. Students preparing for a future as teachers, nurses or athletic trainers begin their professional rotations early in their college career, completing rigorous preparation programs before commencement.
EXP@CSC has no limits. Courses in both the 12-week and 3-week sessions frequently include travel that augments the coursework. For example, students in Civil War history may visit local battlefields; courses in criminology may meet with local law enforcement or study gangland criminal history in Chicago; science courses may conduct field research at the biological station or the Grand Canyon; business students visit with corporate leaders around the region, in Chicago and in Kansas City; and sport management meets with executives of major sports franchises in St. Louis.
C-SC also brings the outside world to campus through its innovative Academic and Cultural Events (ACE) program. Theatre, music, art, business leaders, and guest speakers are brought to campus for free performances several times each semester.
At least twice a year, 3-week courses are offered that travel abroad. Some focus on the arts and literature (Turkey, Greece, the British Isles; the Netherlands); other focus on business (China, European capitals); and others focus on science (Egypt, Guatemala, Belize). Students in these courses begin research for the course in the previous semester, and then travel with other students and faculty. Most study abroad courses require students to prepare and deliver reports about specific aspects of their study while traveling or back on campus.
Be sure to check out our blogs and Through the Lens on our home page to see what our students are doing!
Students will register twice a year for the full 15-week semester, selecting both their 12-week courses and their 3-week course. To help every student fully participate in EXP@CSC, the college has established a voucher program that allows students to accumulate up to $1,500 to help defray any additional costs. Information is available at myculver.com.
EXP@CSC is part of every major and pre-professional program offered at C-SC. If you are still exploring majors, we have a program to help you select an academic program. If you can’t find a major that’s a perfect fit but you still want to be part of EXP@CSC, we will work with you to combine disciplines into an individualized major that better meets your needs. And because we have a core of Common Experience courses, most students don’t fall behind and can still graduate in four years. Our core of common courses also allows students to more easily change majors or add a second major.
So what’s in it for you?
The experiences you gain at Culver-Stockton through EXP@CSC will build your résumé, prepare you to excel at entry exams for professional and graduate programs, and help you get that first professional job to launch your career. On average, 97.4 percent of students are in graduate school or working within six months of commencement. Some majors have 100 percent placement rates. You can make valuable connections with alumni and other working professionals, and you gain hands-on experience being a leader and making decisions. You develop the skills employers want. While earning a C-SC degree, you strengthen your ability to think critically, communicate clearly, write well, research to find information, solve problems, and understand other cultures.
You can check out possible majors, see the schedule of courses, or find the academic catalog online.
For more information about a Culver-Stockton major or pre-professional program, contact the chairperson of the appropriate academic division:
- Division of Business
Dell Ann Janney, Chairperson, Professor of Accounting
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- Division of Education and Applied Arts
Ann E. Hammer, Chairperson, Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Teacher Education
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- Division of Fine Arts
S. Kent Miller, Chairperson, Professor of Theatre and Technical Director
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- Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Patrick Hotle, Chairperson, Coordinator of Study Abroad Programs, and the John A. Sperry, Jr. Endowed Chair of Humanities
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- Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Indiren Pillay, Chairperson, Associate Professor of Biology
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