Applied Learning
We offer you Memphis—and the world—as your laboratory.
Integrated learning at Rhodes means taking your classroom skills into the community, where you’ll connect knowledge with practice and learn effective leadership through service, internships, international travel and research. And it means returning to the classroom with the discoveries, problem-solving skills, contextualization, engagement and motivation you have gained through your experiences. Through Rhodes CARES, the Kinney Program, CODA and more, we offer practical opportunities for you to learn about yourself and the broader world.
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What the hospitals and neighborhoods of Memphis taught Latoya Newsom ’06
Her Medical Sociology course introduced Newsom to the Hollywood-Springdale neighborhood, noted for having the highest infant mortality rate in the country. With sorority sister Courtney Jones ’07 she founded “I Am…,” an organization to teach life skills and empower young women from the area. Newsom’s hospital internships helped her prepare for medical school and life. Read more>>
Doug Lensing ’08 wants to be President
More accurately, he wants a lifetime career in public service. As a Summer Service Fellow, Lensing helped to organize neighborhood residents and chartered a non-profit organization. He has interned in the offices of two U.S. Congressmen and traveled to Rwanda as part of a human rights delegation. Read more>>
“Kiwi physics” took Hallie Graves ’07 to the other side of the world
Not wanting to spend all of her college life in a lab, Graves spent a semester at Victoria University in New Zealand living with three other students and studying Maori culture. And when she’s not studying, Graves is one of the Rhodes Singers and a Rhodes Student Associate in the financial aid office. Read more>>
