What does " field experiences" means in US university?
Student:
It could be that I have taken 2 basic courses but coupled both of them with field experiences.

Registrar:
What do you mean?

student:
Well, I could only take intro courses because there were no intermediate level courses available for those particular topics. My chair person told me that if I did independent field research in addition to the assigned work in each course; they would count as intermediate level courses. My classmates, well, some of my classmates, did this for an easy way to meet their intermediate course requirement, but I did it to get the kind of depth in those topics I was going for. As it turned out I really enjoyed the field work. It was a nice supplement to just sitting and listening to lectures.

Question

What does " field experiences" means in US university?
Student:
It could be that I have taken 2 basic courses but coupled both of them with field experiences.

Registrar:
What do you mean?

student:
Well, I could only take intro courses because there were no intermediate level courses available for those particular topics. My chair person told me that if I did independent field research in addition to the assigned work in each course; they would count as intermediate level courses. My classmates, well, some of my classmates, did this for an easy way to meet their intermediate course requirement, but I did it to get the kind of depth in those topics I was going for. As it turned out I really enjoyed the field work. It was a nice supplement to just sitting and listening to lectures.

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Field work is actually doing the job or job experience in a scientific field. If I am a biologist then an example of field work is going to a forest and studying a certain type of flowers.

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Field experience is actual experience "doing" what you have been learning. For example, if you were a geologist, field experience would be the actual time you spent outside looking at different rock formations, running test, analyzing structures, etc...

If you were going to school for marketing, an internship or even interviews with marketing professionals could constitute field work (or experience).

In class work (lectures and didactic) is time you spend IN the classroom. Field experience (or field work) is time you spent OUTSIDE the classroom actually putting your learned knowledge to use.

Hope that helps!

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