At Dominican, there are so many opportunities
to get hands-on experience in whatever field you choose
to study that by the time you graduate you already know
what the real world looks like.
So that's something great about Dominican.
As a graphic design major at Dominican University,
I was able to work on Nepantla,
which is an undergraduate journal for my capstone project,
and that eventually led me into a summer long internship,
which was paid and helped me continue my work illustrating
and just doing all of the layout design it needed.
It's definitely really rewarding
just actually having the final product itself in like
literally a physical book form.
The informatics program at Dominican is one
where they really encourage hands-on learning
and they encourage you to ask the hard questions.
They encourage you to work with each other.
It's all about collaboration
and there's always such a culture
of everybody learning together,
everybody asking questions together,
helping each other answer questions,
building projects, and work together.
In the nursing program, we have a simulation lab,
which helps us practice for our clinicals where we deal
with real life patients.
So we go over how to talk to patients, you know,
the proper protocols and precautions
and what to do in certain situations.
And when you all learn these things in simulation lab,
it helps you kind of ease
that anxiety when you're actually in clinicals
with real nurses and doctors
and it just eliminates all the anxiety.
As a fashion merchandise major
I got to work during Chicago Fashion Week
and they had a show here at Dominican
and I got to be a stylist
and I felt like that was a good hands-on experience for me.
As an elementary education major
Being in the classroom with the teachers
and the students, just having like hands-on on
what you're gonna be doing for the rest
of your life really does
give you like a feeling like, yes, this is what I wanna do.
Dominican University
provided me with hands-on experience
through my internship at University
of Chicago shadowing physician assistants.
I think that would help me in the real world when I am a
future PA
because it gave me firsthand experience of
what their day-to-day life is like providing patient care.
I felt more of like, oh yeah, I'm ready for this.
I know I want to do this. This is exactly what I want.