Experiential Learning
Learn through experience and exploration
MUWCI’s experiential learning programme
Education beyond traditional classroom boundaries
Our experiential learning programme is central to our educational philosophy and encompasses diverse activities and initiatives. These encourage students to actively engage with their surroundings, fostering personal growth and a deeper understanding of the world.
Learn through experience and exploration. Engage in an active learning process that involves hands-on work, problem-solving, and critical thinking. The focus is on having real-life experiences that enable you to test concepts, theories, and principles learnt in the classroom and reflect on those experiences for deliberate action.
Relational education
We believe that effective education is relational and active
Learning happens in relation to the ideas, places, and cultures that surround you. You will learn about India both on- and off-campus by engaging with her the languages, the neighbouring community, and travelling farther afield. You will travel through India, undertake challenging expeditions, and tackle the issues surrounding social, political, and economic inequity in India. It’s a unique opportunity to make an impact that being in a developing country affords you.
Experience India Week
Experience India Week gives newly arrived first years an opportunity to get off campus and engage with this vast, dynamic, and diverse country we call home. The trips help you get acquainted with India, bringing back thoughtful stories of your adventures as you explore themes such as history, culture, development, nature, and politics. Experience India Week helps individual growth so you can expand your comfort zone. You won’t just be a passive tourist — all our trips require you to be proactively engaged in contributing to your experience.
This course gives you an overview of India — her history, geography, politics, religions, democracy, diversity, caste, development, and much more. Students are encouraged to maintain an open-minded and thoughtful attitude towards a culture that might be foreign to them. You will study through films, art, texts, and discussion while undertaking critical analysis, research, reflection, and evaluation.
Project Week
Project Week serves as an extension of student’s existing Service Learning and Community Engagement. It creates a bond with every students regular service, upskills individual, and learns from the best practice in that field. During Project Week, the ‘process’ is as important as the ‘product’, wherein the learning that will happen while researching, planning, proposing, and implementing a Project Week is as important as the ‘work’ done at the project location. The Project Week should follow the IPARD cycle like regular Triveni activities, which includes Investigation, Planning, Action, Reflection, and Demonstration.
Every year, our first-year students embark on a student-led and faculty-mentored project week wherein students work with leading non-profit organisations across India. Students initiate, reserach, plan and pitch their own projects with clear deliverables and participate in a public showcase to share what you have learned. We have NGO partners across causes, including children’s rights, biodiversity, human rights, sustainable living, and even Hindustani classical music preservation
Triveni Programme: Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS)
The Triveni Programme is at the heart of MUWCI, and goes beyond fulfilling the IB’s requirements.
The Triveni Programme is unique to MUWCI and consists of:
- An IB CAS+ Programme, with an enhanced emphasis on Service Learning
- Multiple experiential learning weeks, both on campus and across India
- A rich year-round calendar of campus events, including Regional Weeks, Seminar Series, Experts-in-Residence, and more
Experiences and projects focused on CAS are part of the IB Diploma Core. We don’t organise activities for you — our co-curricular activities are all initiated and led by students, with student participation and faculty mentorship.
Putting you in charge of your co-curricular activities allows you to customise your Triveni experience in a way that will help you learn best. You can be involved as a participant or as a leader, work independently or in a collaborative fashion, whether in sports, the arts, or discussion groups. And if there’s an activity you’d love to do but don’t see on campus, there’s a simple solution — make it happen!
Creativity and the arts
Exploring creativity across media and disciplines
MUWCI is all about imagination and innovation. Engaging with creative pursuits isn’t a luxury here but an essential way of learning from and responding to the world. You will develop your creative thinking skills through a variety of student activities focused on the arts, culture, language, identity, and innovation. You can explore creativity through different artistic media (e.g. Experimental Dance or Improv Club) or explicitly solve problems through technological means (e.g. Robotics Tech Raiders or Paper Making & Upcycling) or train people in different forms of negotiation (e.g. Chess Club or Debate club) or find ways of reimagining the world through discursive spaces (e.g. Race Space or LGBTQ+ Club). The offerings may change depending on student interests, but one thing is certain: you will.
A sampling of the creativities offered over the years:
Art
- Artsoc
- Upcycled Fashion
- Hairy Styles
Dance
- K-Dance
- Improv Dance Triveni
- Improvisational Theatre
Problem Solving
- MUWCI Tech Raiders
- Stonks
- MUWCI-preneurs
Discussion
- Rhetorix
- Race Space
- Humans of MUWCI
- Writer’s Lab
- Spectrum
Music
- Music ensemble 101
Immersive learning through exploration & engagement
Experiencing diverse cultures and communities for a holistic education
Service Learning
Service learning is part of our Triveni Programme that focuses on building a communitarian ethic — helping students understand the common good in different contexts and so that they can work towards it as they move forward in life.
Ecological & Outdoor Learning
Learning should be through doing things and lived experiences rather than by mere lectures. At MUWCI, we offer a variety of choice in how you engage with the outdoors and create your own learning at skill levels ranging from beginner to advanced.
Project-based Learning
Our commitment to project-based learning comes from a recognition that the student drives learning. Project-based learning delivers authentic challenges while allowing students to be proactive and take charge of their education.
Active doing and sports
Fostering physical and mental well-being through active engagement
Activity at MUWCI takes many forms, be it intensive individual sports, team-based physical recreations, dancing, martial arts, yoga, or workout and physical fitness. With up to 20 activities students can pick from, sports and physical activities bring the community together, bolster physical and mental well-being, and teach people to be team players. The sporting activities on campus are about spirit and inclusivity — but sometimes we do throw in a little competition!
Aside from our year-round Triveni activities, you can also participate in some inter-school competitions and intra-school competitive events like the Football World Cup played by nationality or the MUWCI Premier League played between students, faculty, and campus staff. Every winter, all students celebrate the power of physical and mental fitness by building a better community through “MUWCIlympics”. There are points for the widest participation, playing in the right spirit, practising new and unfamiliar sports, and games from different parts of the world.
A glimpse of the various activities offered over the past few years:
Field Sports
- Yoga & Mindfulness
- Football
- Badminton
- Cricket
- Frisbee
Court Sports
- Volleyball
- Basketball
- Football
- Badminton Triveni
- Tennis
Indoor Activities
- Bollywood
- Martial Arts
- K-Dance
- Afro Latin
- Improv Dance Triveni
Endurance Sports
Outdoor Activites
Taking public transport helps students get a glimpse of daily life in a metropolitan city
A game of cards is an excellent way to pass time while waiting for a train
Train journeys let students explore the variety of India's landscape
Students experience India beyond our local community during travel week
Students help with the preparation and serving of food in the langar at the Golden Temple during travel week
Students celebrating Ganpati festival with the locals
The homestay experience convinced me that sometimes, a language barrier can result in more meaningful conversation, as we had to use the entirety of our body to communicate. The short phrases, the wiggle of the eyebrows and the classic Indian head nod go a long-enough way!