Co-curricular should be something that is linking the activity outside the
classroom with something inside the classroom but I envision it as having a core
academic component. So if I invite a speaker to come to McFeely College, use
archaeologists, my students go, we take him or her out to lunch, those are cocurricular
activities.
George Snyder concurred, “well, running alongside the curriculum, um, efforts on the
part of the college to provide experiences and structures for students that complement the
academic curriculum” while Todd Collins spoke about the co-curricular and the
transcendence of learning in the collegiate setting:
To me co-curricular is part of that engaged learning, it’s that learning outside the
classroom, whether it’s through service learning, or seminars on campus, or the
other events that students are experiencing. Because I, while it’s not formal a lot
of times, I do believe a lot of the learning at college takes place well outside the
classroom. You know it’s in the dorms,