At the Caples Fine Arts Complex, one can find classrooms and studios for art, sculpture and music. The Environmental Studies Program, located on the historic Caples campus, incorporates a teaching laboratory with an outdoor garden, and students are actively engaged in campus landscaping projects reflecting Florida's natural environment. Social Sciences' students have access to a research laboratory for empirical data analysis, and the Ball Anthropology Lab with a substantial research library on Mesoamerican archaeology, anthropology and history.
At New College, you will discover that learning takes place well beyond the confines of the conventional classroom. Our beautiful campus and warm weather are conducive to bringing the classroom outdoors, which we do on a frequent basis. Students and their professors might gather underneath the giant Camphor tree next to the Sarasota Bay, under the arches in the PepsiCo Arcade at Caples, or at the Four Winds Café. In addition, we conduct field research at the Mote Marine Laboratory, the Carlton Preserve, the Myakka River State Park, and other locations where practical application and observation complement classroom teaching.
Independent Study Projects and summer internships take our students to locations around the globe for in-depth exploration and real-life experience. Our students have traveled to Antarctica on a scientific adventure vessel, conducted forest canopy research in the Amazon rainforest, completed internships at Oxfam and the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, and spent a semester at an Israeli kibbutz. At New College of Florida the world is, indeed, our classroom.
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