Lab, Field, & Studio Activities
STEM Labs: Bootcamp, Hands-on, and Virtual
UF Faculty create learning activities that uniquely meet the teaching and learning goals of each lab. Generally, lab activities for online students fall into three categories shown below - and sometimes all three happen in a single lab!
In 2019 UF Online partnered with the UF Chemistry department to offer the first chemistry lab bootcamp Links to an external site. in Florida. Chemistry 1 and 2 lab courses are designed to be offered online Summer A with a one-week, in-person session hosted in the Chemistry labs located on campus in Gainesville, Florida each summer.
The bootcamp takes place in Joseph Hernandez Hall, UF’s new chemistry building.
Lab partners experiment on a sports drink to find out the amount of food coloring it contains.
At-home Studios
Live participation in art and dance studio coursework also happens online!
In these courses, you might be asked to join a Zoom or similar synchronous (real-time) meeting and will have a chance to work on projects alongside your classmates, participate in critiques, and even perform for a grade.
Fieldwork
Just as instructors sometimes use on-location videos to help you learn about fieldwork, you may be asked to use the world as your classroom. Courses that incorporate fieldwork often involve projects that send you into the local environments where you live or work to collect samples, document your findings, meet with people, and keep a field journal of your activities.