Presenter:
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Geoff Malleck (Economics)
This session explored ‘"non-essential" activities: activities that occur outside the classroom and are not considered essential components of a university education, yet are truly vital to learning critical skills of life.
Examples of these activities include:
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varsity sports
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recreational sports
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living/learning activities
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school clubs and organized activities
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communities (ARBUS-Accounting, etc.)
Learning and development happen when we engage in these extracurricular activities; this is where we play AND learn at the same time. How can we connect these learning experiences to the academic environment? How can we truly integrate the essential learning that happens during these ‘non-essential’ extracurricular activities with the learning that takes place in the classroom so that both types of experiences are considered of equal importance and together become a fundamental part of ‘Waterloo experience’?