Immersive Learning Opportunities

Take an idea and turn it into something with meaning, value, and real-world application—and get credit for it—with immersive learning.

You can have distinctive experiences through numerous English department opportunities and in courses through the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Other programs at Ball State such as Building Better Communities Fellows offer immersive learning opportunities for students from all majors.

Here are a few examples of how students enrich their education and make a difference:

• Students in the Creative Writing in the Community course tell stories on behalf of people who are rarely heard, such as disadvantaged children, the disabled, and the elderly.
• Students get hands-on experience running a literary magazine, The Broken Plate. 
• Kecia McBride, an English professor, led the Virginia Ball Center project that produced Mintonette, a documentary exploring the impact of Title IX.