Learn across different fields to develop critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving abilities.
Pursue your interests. Nurture new passions. Discover areas of study you’ve not even thought of. You’ll have a highly personalized academic experience — learning and working closely with your professors, through coursework, in the lab, and in the field.
How it works
Through coursework and high impact practices such as first year intensives, hands-on learning, research, and study abroad, the Clark Experience prioritizes the integration of theory and disciplinary knowledge, with real-world application and ethical action. You’ll work in information and technology rich environments, ensuring your success after graduation.
The Clark Experience in action
Problems of Practice courses
Problems of Practice courses offer opportunities to pursue the solution to a specific problem, address a community need, or organize a cultural event.
Students work collaboratively with faculty, alumni, and experts at local and global organizations.

Students in the class, the National Imagination explore how language forms national identities and how cultural production—such as film, digital products, and literature—represents and, at times, questions national identity.


Students in the PoP course, Designing Just Cities, taught by Geography Professor Asha Best, discuss solutions to urban challenges such as eviction, houselessness, lack of vital infrastructure, and the realities of climate change.
Experiential learning
Your unique Clark journey
With our small class sizes and opportunities for personalized attention through advising, learning is a relational process at Clark. Students learn from and with their professors, as well as from each other.

The Honors Program
Through academic excellence, ingenuity, interdisciplinarity, and community—both in and out of the classroom—students unleash their intellectual curiosity. When they graduate with the honors accolade, they are stand-out candidates for potential employers and graduate schools. Explore the honors program.