Manchester Magazine Spring 2017 | Page 21

MU| F e a t u r e s immersive experiences. So it may be that in the course of a semester, students are in class all day for two weeks, and then they go out for six weeks to a clinical site. They may come back for a one-week seminar, go back out for another three weeks. “We could do a rotation, for example, on casting, learning to apply casts. They could do a course in phlebotomy where they learn to draw blood. Those types of experiences that are outside of the normal curriculum. So I see a lot of creativity on the horizon with the curriculum.” By Benjamin Smith Photo above, the Master of Athletic Training Class of 2016; (at left) Jarron Jackson, an exercise science major; and (upper left, opposite page) Mark Huntington explains something to Emily Hopkins. VIDEO See the video at magazine.manchester.edu Manchester | 21