Project-Based Learning  Research shows that students learn more, and knowledge sticks better, when they learn by doing. Colby stresses project-based learning in courses throughout the curriculum to engage students in the types of discovery that make learning exciting. In the sciences students synthesize molecules or decode DNA. In the humanities creativity blossoms in studios, concert halls, and on stages. Social scientists engage in the political process, studying campaign finance or creating an economic forecast for the state of Maine. Interdisciplinary projects include GIS mapping work for the state government. Project-based learning underscores the interdisciplinary nature of the world. |
Pre-Professional Programs  Some students arrive at Colby sure of their career plans. Others find their calling along the way. All (including those in the “neither of the above” category) graduate with the knowledge and intellectual tools to adapt to and to succeed in a range of careers and professions. Colby offers structured pre-professional advising programs for students preparing for graduate programs in medicine, dentistry, law, business, and theology. Colby supports the applications of all students applying to medical and dental schools, and the overwhelming majority of those applicants are successful. |
Integrated Studies  Integrated Studies presents clusters of courses designed to explore an era or an aspect of world civilization from the perspective of several disciplines. Imagine the program as a distillation of the liberal arts: team-taught clusters allow for a thorough exploration of a concept through interdisciplinary study and the making of broad connections across subject areas. Recently students in “The Post-War Years” studied the group dynamics that made the Holocaust possible, read In Dubious Battle and discussed “the phalanx” and “the herd mentality” in the American labor movement, listened to Woody Guthrie’s protest music, and examined the physics of nuclear bombs. |
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 One of America’s best college art museums, the Colby College Museum of Art has a strong collection of American art, from 18th-century portraits to contemporary works by Richard Serra and Robert Rauschenberg. It features the John Marin Collection and a wing dedicated to the art of Alex Katz. The permanent collection also includes works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Agnes Martin.
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