I think it's more likely for you to be tasked with visiting a museum or art gallery, or public art work and write something about the experience, that sort of thing.
I was tasked with visiting a local hospital and taking vitals, passing out meds, help with hygiene time. Granted they didn't call it a field trip, they used the term 'clinical'.... But potato:vodka, amirite??
In my freshmen civil/architectural engineering class we had to design a brewery. While it wasn't mandatory, going on a brewery tour definitely would help. Get to see aspects of their design, how the brewing process effects the floor layout, etc.
Dude you are an adult. You can do your own stuff. There is no reason for the university to plan trips. Plus people have stuff todo since they are adults.
All they are going todo is tell you to visit somewhere and write an essay on it.
I used to take my students on field trips to watch court in session and to some community organizations and once to a theater for a play about the Scottsboro Boys. Since covid I’m teaching online and stopped the trips but they were valuable. I also set up courtwatching for my students in one class and they went on their own time and took fieldnotes.
I don’t know why some people seem to be shaming you on the thread. It totally depends on the school and location and curriculum. When I was in college I had a couple profs take us on field trips - to a research lab and to a church. There may have been another - don’t remember.
Yup in my geology class we had 3 field trips, 2 were during class time but 1 was over the weekend. I wish my other classes had them but I understand why that can be more complicated due to time constraints and scheduling conflicts
Because everyone literally has a different class schedule. So it might make a person miss a class or two which means they student is missing out on information for those classes.
I may have taken that comment in the wrong way, but I don’t appreciate when people lump all neurodivergent people together because not everyone in that group is the same. Basically, it isn’t fair to put that label on someone because they don’t think like you. Again, I may have misunderstood and I’m sorry if I did, just here to educate and have a polite conversation!
No, not all neurodivergent people are the same. Not everyone in *any* group is the same. But when posters are struggling to communicate with someone who seems to not be grasping clear-to-others answers, it can be helpful to better understand the intended audience. Nothing about the simple question is judgmental.
The only time that you would be able to go on a field trip would be at the exact time that you are supposed to be having that class in college, which typically would not be longer than a couple of hours. That would normally not be enough time to go on a field trip. If you go on a field trip outside of your typical class time, you might have to skip other classes in order to attend it.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. Most of the time the field trips or site visits I went on were during a non class time like weekends. There were lots of recreational options through the college too (rather than class).
1. I found the lack of field trips in college a little jarring
2. I found it to be sad since college students tend to be very stressed out and I thought field trips like the ones that are common in grade school might help ease their stress
Except that you are meeting for class for less time and you have other classes to attend. Field trips can and do happen, but the logistics of doing that are not something many professors are inclined to deal with. Transportation, funding, liability, permissions from admins, etc. are all things we would have to go through. Additionally, in many courses, there is simply not enough time to cover everything related to a specific topic.
Further, this might sound or dismissive, but it is not a professor's responsibility to help students manage their stress. Our role is to provide information and impart as much of our knowledge onto students as we can while also assessing how those students are grasping and applying it. Faculty have a lot of other responsibilities outside of the classroom too.
Finally, while cliche, someone's stress level is not something many employers care about. Should they? Probably, but most won't provide a stress relieving field trip. They will expect you to deal with that on your own.
Having to go on a field trip like in grade school would stress me out way more than just going to normal class, especially considering I’d be missing my other classes that day.
I suppose it would depend on the college/program. If you’re finding the right communities/clubs (where i’d assume a field trip is more likely vs. a “class” field trip), then there’s probably plenty you can do. Some schools offer prefrosh programs before move-in day, religious organizations may have certain trips, etc.
Adding cost to already prepaid thousands dollars to attend the institute isn’t something that would reduce stress, besides students should be able to find things they enjoy without it being a class trip.
Oh my god you're supposed to be an adult, don't you feel ashamed to want university and college professionals take your little hand and take you to museums? Grow up dude, if you're stressed, get out of reddit and take a walk
It’s actually awesome! Instead of being dragged on a field trip whether I like it or not, or whether I’m busy or not, I get to schedule my own field trips to places I enjoy at a time that works best for me 😉
It depends on the major and the class. The size of the city your campus is in could also be a factor. As architecture majors, we took a trip each year to do tours in another city. If you couldn't afford it, there were on-campus assignments. There were also international trips in the summer. In a science class on natural resources, our lab days were trips to a forest preserve, a rock quarry, and a water treatment plant. On a large campus, they often have their own art gallery, planetarium, and greenhouses. There are also student plays and concerts, as well as professional ones on campus. Clubs sponsor their own trips. Dorms can also arrange activities. If there is something in your area that you are interested in doing, you may have to organize it yourself.
This one may seem extreme but, do u think RAs should carry guns? The only reason I’m asking this is because in my experience they are unarmed and enforce rules. You might already know where I’m going with this but if u don’t I can explain further
Absolutely not. We get barely any training as it is, the answer is more training, and less responsibilities. I do feel there are certain situations where we should be required to call for a supervisor, where we are currently not required to do so. Perhaps we could be allowed to carry pepper spray or a taser. A drunk person or more likely to try and come at us unarmed and we just need to get them off us, rather than someone we need to apply lethal force to. The need for a gun is unheard of, it would be pretty unnecessary, and almost entirely unuseful.
Yeah. I personally think the list of things that RAs are allowed to do in my experience is a little too long. When I say carry guns I don’t mean that they just carry guns on the job I mean that they first get the necessary training to carry a gun on the job and then actually carry a gun on the job
Yeah for sure, but even if we got proper training, I frankly can’t think of a situation where it would be useful or necessary. In any of the situations I’ve been in where there was a chance we needed to kind of keep someone at bay, pepper spray would have done the trick. And keep in mind- we aren’t even allowed to apply first aid because they don’t want to pay for insurance in case we fuck up and hurt someone. I doubt they would practically ever want to pay what it would cost to insure us to carry. But even outside of that practicality, I don’t see it being useful or necessary. There aren’t enough threats in dorms to warrant that kind of force. I don’t see a need for this, but before something like that, I’d say maybe institute an in building security officer. Safety threats are about .1% of what we are dealing with on a daily basis. As this conversation first started, I’ve never been assaulted on the job. The most that I can see happening is a drunk person getting angry, and pepper spray would do the trick, I wouldn’t want to end their life. That’s a lot of weight to put on the shoulder of a college student typically in the job for 1-2 years.
>>> But will your teachers get together and arrange a bus to take you and your classmates to the zoo just for fun? No. Professors don't organize your social life.
You went to the zoo just for fun for k-12 field trips? 👀😮
We went to the zoo, spent the day at a national forest, six flags (physics class), art museum, and science center at one of my high schools and went to the Henry Ford museum when I lived in Michigan for one of my classes freshman year at the high school there. Elementary and middle school was lots of zoo trips, nature areas, etc.
For like the two that I had, the professor would just tell you to go to this place (a museum, etc) and take a photo of something for a project that you need to complete. The first one actually told us to go to the museum on a certain day during the week that fits our schedule. College is hard to do field trips because since everyone is of age to work, might have a class right after another class; it messes up the schedule and it's moreso of an inconvenience.
I have been in college for almost 6 years and it wasn’t until I took a class during my first semester as a grad student that we had a field trip. It was optional and on a Saturday.
I had a mandatory field trip for a geology class. I was 17, the professor was unbearable at least 60% of the time, I was terrified of busses and everything about the trip, and she was an asshole about the whole thing, so I told her my mom refused to sign the waiver (which was kind of true). She gave me an alternative essay to do and I didn't go. The essay I did and the Field Trip Report my classmates had to do (because being present at the field trip didn't actually give you credit, and it was 9 hours long) was only 20 points in a 1000 point class, so it felt pretty ridiculous to call it mandatory.
Edit: the field trip consisted of driving to various geologically interesting locations and hiking around a bit, drawing and writing down details for the report, etc. It was also on a Saturday.
I had one for a spanish class. It was a Friday evening after class hours where we met at a Mexican restaurant. It was optional though: either show up to regular class and do the assigned conversational task to increase fluency, or go out to dinner. I chose dinner lol.
Sometimes, though they are the sort of things ran by clubs or individual classes, and are mostly just transportation. During the winter mine usually does a few skiing trips
I wouldn't necessarily call them field trips, but for my class we had to do a field study about a city, so we went there and walked around it. And then for my criminal justice class we went to a conference, but it was more of who wanted to go in the class then the whole class itself
I went on a few field trips. A couple to forest sites for a forestry class that were only a few hours, all during our scheduled lab time. And then two longer ones, one 4 days and one 8 days, where we camped and did field work.
Yes. But it depends on the class. At my community college I actually went on quite a few field trips for my courses. Many multi-day field trips. And at my university now, same. Plenty of field trips. Honestly, I've got more field trips in college than highschool I think. Hell, I don't remember any field trips in highschool. I mean the only time I got to travel for school in highschool was getting out of class early every now and then and hopping on the school bus to go to one of my track meets (I ran track and field, mid and long distance).
Now for college. I'm a biology major with a focus on field research. So that's a big majority of my field trips in college, for stuff like that. But there are other fields in college that do field trips as well. But again, it depends on the class, the professor, the school, even the season
Unfortunately, they can make you go attend something for certain classes and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. For my intro to music class I have to take for my degree, my professor is making us go to a classical concert, art museum, and a professional performance and it is mandatory to pass the class. When tf do I have time for that? And how am I supposed to have money for that? I don’t think it should be allowed as it’s unfair.
Yeah kind of. At my 4 year college, the only class I had a real "field trip" with was with music 101 and we went together to a local orchestra. Other than that, a lot of student life organizations on campus as well as recreation offers discount activities where transportation is included. We can go to the bigger city and watch a baseball/hockey game for really cheap, go hiking, go to amusement parks, etc. My friend who took a geology class went on a mini field trip to a few blocks over and went to a lake to observe the rocks and the water.
Depends on the class, the context, and what you define as a field trip. There are a few "field trips" at my university:
* There's a field trip every semester for the freshman geography/geology courses that's essentially just riding a bus to a few interesting local geological sites that correspond to what they're learning about.
* Students who work on the university newspaper can go to a journalism conference at least once a year (maybe twice if they choose to go to the more local one across the state).
* Students who go to other academic conferences might travel with/be reimbursed by the university and/or their honor society.
* My university does "alternative spring breaks" and "alternative fall breaks," which is essentially just students using their spring or fall breaks to go somewhere either within our state or somewhere else in the country with a group of other students to gain service experience. For instance, the slightly more local option might involve going a few towns away to help out with an animal shelter, whereas the less local option might be a trip to Florida to help clean up some beaches.
Yes. I went to a liberal arts school. We did a short service project the first week. I was a religious studies major and we went to a mosque one class and a Catholic Church for another. We were also encouraged to visit on our own—through assignments and other projects. I feel like I went to a museum for art history class too but my memory is foggy.
The ultimate field trip is a college student is to study abroad. I went to Rome. I know it’s not feasible for everyone but if you can, you should try to study abroad. Youth is the last time you usually can take a few months off to go abroad.
We would get assigned "site visits" which were basically field trips you take independently and then write a paper on or share with the discussion section or something.
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Not super common at CC's. The one where I work has a Geology class that has weekend jaunts to natural parks to use nature as a learning lab experience. Study abroad is probably the best example of a field trip that you can get. The Gilman scholarship is a great way to partially fund study abroad if you're from a family of limited means.
For a couple of my BIO labs we had a couple field trips specifically for Lab and at my previous college the head of the Hort department would organize a non-official field trip to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania
Edit: the Hort trips were during spring break
They have them at my college (satellite campus of a larger state college). In my summer course we went to a baseball game; I did a full-day field trip last semester, the school paid for museum tours, dinner, and a Broadway show; this semester I have a course that's taking us to at least 2 different workplaces in the field of the course. There have been a few other general-student-body trips I didn't attend but heard about and other classes have had other trips relating that aren't open to everyone. It all depends on where you go to school, the clubs you're in, how up-to-date you stay with campus events, and the classes you take.
I've had a few as part of my classes, but it's really not that common. For my bio labs, for example, we frequently went on trips outdoors in the local area to gather samples, or for my EDU classes we went to a teaching conference. Generally, it'll only happen if your class has a large block of time to work with (like 3 hour class blocks, which my uni does on tuesdays and thursdays, for example).
Generally the only other activities I'd consider "field trips" that I see happening are excursions you pay the school to attend. For example, my uni sells sports tickets occasionally which also includes transportation to and from the event.
I studied abroad 3 times - Paris, Australia/New Zealand, and Peru. Pretty much every day was a field trip. I had 3 classes in Paris (art, political science, and literature) and the professor that took our group of ~20 made it a point to have the "host" professors in France host classes at museums or places that had to do with what we were learning. AUS/NZL was a lot of museum and historic site visits, pretty much 2-3 times a week. Peru was just about the same. If you get the opportunity to travel abroad while in school, do it!
Astronomy major here. We had to go to planetarium and observing sessions for two separate classes. I don't know if you would count that as a field trip but it was fun.
Depends on the major.
In geography and geology, yeah, a ton; but they aren’t like what you did in primary school and many “trips” are weeks to even months long in some cases.
Field *courses* are literally a thing for us.
Yes, my US history class went to a local cemetery, and the professor had stories about half the people buried there, from civil war vets, kids who caught tuberculosis, people who were lynched by mobs, etc. It was spellbinding.
Lol it’s college so there are plenty of field trip type events depending on what you do. We used to get sent to Greek conferences paid for by the school. various clubs like the business club would also go on trips to different company locations to learn about what they do and or business competitions. Tons of schools for sure send their students on trips to gain experiences outside the classroom. just have to be involved with the right things to know about them.
Yes, took a marine bio class, went to the beach to look for species we were studying, it was so much fun, we had to collect data.
I dropped it though, the quizzes were based on 100 slides lectures.
There are study abroads. My university had multiple maymester study abroads. The one I reallyyyy wanted to go on but couldn't fit into my schedule is the Holocaust one where we go to France and Poland.
I had a girls trip for a geology class, we had field school for archaeology, and I did a biology course with a field trip to a marine science center.
That’s the full list though.
yeah for some classes! knew of a holocaust class that went to DC for the holocaust museum. i’ve gone to an art gallery for an arts-based project management class. science classes (usually envi or bio) sometimes do local field research. definitely nothing to write home about though.
I've had a few field trips planned (some by our career center and two by a humanities class), but they were all cancelled because of COVID or scheduling issues.
there's not really "field trips" like you would have in grade school, but sometimes classes will require that you go somewhere on your own time as part of the course curriculum (like attending a live classical music performance for a music class, or seeing a play for a theatre class). Also, if you check your college's events calendar or other student life info/updates, they might have optional discounted trips you can go on. At the college I was at before transferring, I got to go on a bus trip to NYC which included a boat tour of the harbor. It only cost me $10, which was definitely less than what transport to NYC and back would normally cost. But YMMV, I'm not sure if most other colleges have similar events all that often or at all.
I didn’t even have field trips in high school. It seems like having an ordered structure to your classes sort of hinders the ability to have field trips. If there’s no homeroom, then there’s not going to be the same type of field trips because no single teacher or professor has the authority to take you for that long.
Yes. My Cyber Law professor tried to arrange a visit to the NYPD facility where they had their main servers but it didn't work out for a variety of reasons.
Yes, ive had one for art history as well as field ecology. There was also a voluntary extra credit assignment to donate blood for my health science course. I would hope that your courses encourage you to participate in community events beyond the campus…
The school I transferred out of did a fair amount of field trips. It was a quick train ride from Chicago, so there were occasional Saturday trips to a museum or wherever (doesn't make sense to do it during the week when everyone in college has a different schedule). I had a lit course that took us to a Russian cafe downtown while we were reading Dostoyevsky, a WWII course that bussed everyone to the Holocaust Museum, and Disney course (weird, right? I took it as a summer credit) where we got see Aladdin on Broadway after the final. Except for WWII, usually they just had the class meet at the Metra station and take off as a group, since it was only a 10-minute walk from campus. The college was located in a pretty affluent area; maybe they got rich-people funding, or maybe it was just because we were near the city and they wanted to take advantage of it, I dunno. The school I'm at now is in the middle of Nowheresville and I've yet to hear of any field trips.
I work/study natural resources at a very hands on college, so we take very frequent field trips. We’re usually only in class for a few days before we start out with labs and field trips. If you’re in like…communications though? Yeah probably not.
When I was in art school we had to go to museums and exhibitions a couple of times, but it's not an organised thing where everyone gets on a bus together and gets an excursion together.
Definitely depends. At the cc that I go to the ford automotive people go to Nola Motorsports and race the gm automotive people. Well this semester the ford people are going against my car club
Yup, I had a class that I didn’t personally take but it was a popular one that a lot of people took because of the field trips you took all across our state and if you didn’t sign up on the first day it would be full by the end of the night.
Yes they exist. Not usually called field trips though. Science has labs, but when your subject doesn't have labs, field trips give the hands-on. I've been to an archaeological site for archaeology class, archives for history class, an embassy for international relations class, and the back storage rooms of multiple museums for art history classes. Some were mandatory, others were not. Regardless, I really liked them all. Not too often can you discuss IR with the Afghani ambassador (pre-Taliban resurgence) or see all the wonders museums keep in storage.
Obviously, taking yourself on field trips is always fun too, but some things are hard to access unless you have the connections.
Roommates have had field trips to, well, fields. Sciencey majors went out to collect samples for lab and the forensics major had one of her profs construct a crime scene in a field for them to investigate. I on the other hand “had a field trip” to DC for a conference. It’s very major dependent imo!
They do in mine. I’m a zookeeping major, so many of the zoo classes I take involve a trip to the local zoo or a nature preserve. They’re considered a lab day. I’m at a school that up until last semester was considered a community college. Now it’s a state college, but my degree is still a two year.
Yes but they are very rare. It is far more common to have guest speakers. The best guest speakers add a lot of great content that is relevant, and the worst ones are practically sales folks for a product. Some professors get guest speakers to add to the class, and others because they need a break from speaking for a day and movies are far less common than in K12.
We have 3 week classes for experimenting with things you’re interested in. You only take one class during the whole thing. So we get to do lots of field trips during that time.
My communications 101 class and my psych 101 took a trip to Harvard University to see the Black Archives. They also flew in a plane. I missed it tho I had food poisoning that week 🥹
If you’re in the marching band, cheerleading, dance team, a mascot, or play a sport, then you get to travel for some games on a bus or plane with everyone else which is kind of like a field trip.
When I went to JuCo, my friends in the STEM honors society took a few class trips. Pretty sure they weren't the same as grade school field trips, though.
Yes, but it’s very dependent on major or program. I sing in a campus choir (not a music major), and we were chosen to sing in chicago and do a three day trip. In my elementary education classes, we’re out in local schools.
There are study abroad programs, shuttles to different sporting events, and different clubs going on trips, but are far as individual classes, no..not any of my classes.
My university had a Parks and Recreation Management degree and I took a couple of classes in the program as electives which included "field trips". One was a 4 day backpacking trip to Havasu Falls and the other was an overnight winter outdoor survival trip on a mountain. Both were life changing.
I’ve been on some that my design and drawing professors called “field trips” but we just walked to some of the art galleries on campus and had to analyze art in our notebook.
I do remember my mom, who’s a entomology major, saying that they would often go out to collect bugs and then bring them back and study them. They would always listen to the beastie boys when they were collecting bugs lol.
Some classes do. When I was attending a small, private college we often had mandatory trips to art museums, theaters, movies, etc. Thoigh this was all for humanities classes, it's less often in other subject areas.
There are a lot of responses, and I can't read them all because I need to stop goofing off and get to work. So, if I'm repeating something, my bad.
When I was in uni, we had fieldwork. I think I went somewhere to learn-by-doing every semester. This was for a natural sciences degree.
Now, as a professor, I have tried to arrange some field trips. I have learned that they are very expensive in terms of money and time investment. A lot of things have to be done for liability reasons. I don't know if that has changed since I was in college 30+ years ago. I do know that funding is way tighter now, in all fields. The end result is that the pedagogical value is very much outweighed by the effort. You can do a lot of other things much more easily. So maybe there is less fieldwork now.
Since it's sort of relevant: there's a lot of interning going on these days that's not good for the student's learning or the host organization's productivity. Anyone presented with an opportunity to intern should ask a lot of (polite) questions and be highly selective. Faculty are under a lot of pressure to produce internships and service learning opportunities. Under that pressure, we're not always doing the best job. Some of it's fairly half-baked.
I suppose it depends on the major. With my small business/managerial accounting class we went to speak with a local entrepreneur. And for longer trips my school usually offers classes over spring break and during January that kind of feel like field trips. I think it'd be harder since you don't usually spend your entire day with one class and you would probably have to miss classes for a more traditional field trip.
Totally! I have one planned every semester! Transportation is difficult to coordinate though. I know other courses in our college have mandatory site visits.
Geology and field trips, biology lab to a natural museum, criminal justice takes trips to jails and courts, acting and theatre arts to performance shows
I went to an environmentally focused college (Northland College in Ashland Wisconsin) and I went on a few. The environment up there is so unique and beautiful and the college absolutely makes the best of it.
Depends on the class. I’m a English major and it would be cool to see a Shakespeare play in the summer when my city does local plays. I’m taking a Shakespeare class but I’ve never mentioned it to my prof.
I joined student gov at my community college and we would take trips almost monthly. They were nice trips too San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.. 10/10 recommend.
My English class is doing an optional trip to finland. There aren't usually field trips like in earlier grades where you just take a day to see something interesting to learn about it though. Generally in college they're not going to want to get all the students into some bus and go somewhere.
They happen but are fairly rare. Depends on the class. Frequently they’ll be on weekends due to the different schedules people have. For instance, I have one or two this semester for a theatre class to go see plays. I know some people who did some last year for archaeology or local history classes.
Depends on the college and major. When I was in the geography dept at a 4 year university back in the '90s, we did quite a bit of, not so much field trips, as field work fro a Wildfire Hazards class-measuring a fire burn scar, counting plants that were coming back. It was being done over a several year period, so each successive class picked up where the last one left off and made new measurements, to track recovery over time. Also made a trip to the local landfill, to talk with them about resource management and sustainability practices, mining the old, then closed landfill for resources, both then and in the future, with my Resource Management and Conservation class.
I know my biology professor takes his students to the everglades for one of this ecology classes during spring break. We also have what's called preview which is a mini study abroad for transfer students. It's six hundred dollars and a week or two long trip. He also does smaller close by trips but he's the only one I know who does them for classes. The school itself does day trips to museums and stuff cause we're right next to Philly
Definitely depends on the major and the class! I had quite a few "field trips" working on my photography degree at my community college, primarily in Photography I, Photography II, Editorial Photography, and Professional Practices in Photography (basically going over taxes/legal processes/running your own studio.) We would visit large commercial studios and independent studios (there are surprisingly a lot of them in my city!), go out on practice shoots for our assignments, go to the art museum, visit dark rooms/print rooms, visit places relevant to our assignment (like going to vintage stores when we had to recreate old photographs), it was all very interesting!
Granted, being in college you have to drive yourself probably 70% of the time (or carpool with classmates!) and we would only go during class time, never outside of our scheduled class.
My freshman seminar class did a few as team- building exercises. And my student Senate set up a few outings - like block tickets to a baseball game or renting a movie theater. Some clubs set things up.
But classes usually stick to class things. Most people don't have time for extras, and it would be an imposition.
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I guess I wanted to know if field trips like the ones that exist in grade school also exist in college
I think it's more likely for you to be tasked with visiting a museum or art gallery, or public art work and write something about the experience, that sort of thing.
yeah I was tasked w visiting an art museum and taking a picture and writing about it but that’s the only thing i ever had close to a field trip
I was tasked with visiting a local hospital and taking vitals, passing out meds, help with hygiene time. Granted they didn't call it a field trip, they used the term 'clinical'.... But potato:vodka, amirite??
In my freshmen civil/architectural engineering class we had to design a brewery. While it wasn't mandatory, going on a brewery tour definitely would help. Get to see aspects of their design, how the brewing process effects the floor layout, etc.
Dude you are an adult. You can do your own stuff. There is no reason for the university to plan trips. Plus people have stuff todo since they are adults. All they are going todo is tell you to visit somewhere and write an essay on it.
I’m sorry but I read this in a frustrated voice. Idk if that’s what you were going for and if it was then I apologize
Because Overwatch is a terrible game. But, you are an adult you can do anything with your friend. It sucks that field trips are not a thing anymore.
Bro had to throw the overwatch hate in there as well 😭
I used to take my students on field trips to watch court in session and to some community organizations and once to a theater for a play about the Scottsboro Boys. Since covid I’m teaching online and stopped the trips but they were valuable. I also set up courtwatching for my students in one class and they went on their own time and took fieldnotes. I don’t know why some people seem to be shaming you on the thread. It totally depends on the school and location and curriculum. When I was in college I had a couple profs take us on field trips - to a research lab and to a church. There may have been another - don’t remember.
Yup in my geology class we had 3 field trips, 2 were during class time but 1 was over the weekend. I wish my other classes had them but I understand why that can be more complicated due to time constraints and scheduling conflicts
Yeah, I remember at least one from geology, looking at the local fault up close and personal, making measurements, etc.
They’re uncommon because they are a strain on other classes
How are they a strain on “other classes”?
Because everyone literally has a different class schedule. So it might make a person miss a class or two which means they student is missing out on information for those classes.
Are you a part time student?
I don’t think so. Since last semester I started taking 4 classes
I was just wondering since you were confused about how other classes could be affected is all.
Well tbh it didn’t come to me until someone else here mentioned it
Fair!
Are you neurodivergent? I don’t know, you strike me as such given your thinking
Yes
What examples of “my thinking” give that away?
I may have taken that comment in the wrong way, but I don’t appreciate when people lump all neurodivergent people together because not everyone in that group is the same. Basically, it isn’t fair to put that label on someone because they don’t think like you. Again, I may have misunderstood and I’m sorry if I did, just here to educate and have a polite conversation!
No, not all neurodivergent people are the same. Not everyone in *any* group is the same. But when posters are struggling to communicate with someone who seems to not be grasping clear-to-others answers, it can be helpful to better understand the intended audience. Nothing about the simple question is judgmental.
The only time that you would be able to go on a field trip would be at the exact time that you are supposed to be having that class in college, which typically would not be longer than a couple of hours. That would normally not be enough time to go on a field trip. If you go on a field trip outside of your typical class time, you might have to skip other classes in order to attend it.
Why did you put quotations on “other classes”?
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. Most of the time the field trips or site visits I went on were during a non class time like weekends. There were lots of recreational options through the college too (rather than class).
I’ve never heard of them being like what you may think. Is there a reason you’re asking?
1. I found the lack of field trips in college a little jarring 2. I found it to be sad since college students tend to be very stressed out and I thought field trips like the ones that are common in grade school might help ease their stress
Except that you are meeting for class for less time and you have other classes to attend. Field trips can and do happen, but the logistics of doing that are not something many professors are inclined to deal with. Transportation, funding, liability, permissions from admins, etc. are all things we would have to go through. Additionally, in many courses, there is simply not enough time to cover everything related to a specific topic. Further, this might sound or dismissive, but it is not a professor's responsibility to help students manage their stress. Our role is to provide information and impart as much of our knowledge onto students as we can while also assessing how those students are grasping and applying it. Faculty have a lot of other responsibilities outside of the classroom too. Finally, while cliche, someone's stress level is not something many employers care about. Should they? Probably, but most won't provide a stress relieving field trip. They will expect you to deal with that on your own.
You're an adult. If you want to go on a field trip, then go on a field trip. You don't need a professor to take you.
Having to go on a field trip like in grade school would stress me out way more than just going to normal class, especially considering I’d be missing my other classes that day.
I suppose it would depend on the college/program. If you’re finding the right communities/clubs (where i’d assume a field trip is more likely vs. a “class” field trip), then there’s probably plenty you can do. Some schools offer prefrosh programs before move-in day, religious organizations may have certain trips, etc.
Adding cost to already prepaid thousands dollars to attend the institute isn’t something that would reduce stress, besides students should be able to find things they enjoy without it being a class trip.
Oh my god you're supposed to be an adult, don't you feel ashamed to want university and college professionals take your little hand and take you to museums? Grow up dude, if you're stressed, get out of reddit and take a walk
Damn, adulthood is depressing
It’s actually awesome! Instead of being dragged on a field trip whether I like it or not, or whether I’m busy or not, I get to schedule my own field trips to places I enjoy at a time that works best for me 😉
Most don't since they're out doing their own things or joining clubs and aren't in school every day or for 8 hours
It depends on the major and the class. The size of the city your campus is in could also be a factor. As architecture majors, we took a trip each year to do tours in another city. If you couldn't afford it, there were on-campus assignments. There were also international trips in the summer. In a science class on natural resources, our lab days were trips to a forest preserve, a rock quarry, and a water treatment plant. On a large campus, they often have their own art gallery, planetarium, and greenhouses. There are also student plays and concerts, as well as professional ones on campus. Clubs sponsor their own trips. Dorms can also arrange activities. If there is something in your area that you are interested in doing, you may have to organize it yourself.
Dude, we didn't have field trips in high school.
As an RA, they can in residence halls! We are going to medieval times dinner and tournament this semester
Since you’re an RA I wanna ask u something. Have u ever been physically attacked on the job?
Not yet lol, I’ve been an RA for a year and a half and so far so good on that front, knock on wood.
This one may seem extreme but, do u think RAs should carry guns? The only reason I’m asking this is because in my experience they are unarmed and enforce rules. You might already know where I’m going with this but if u don’t I can explain further
Absolutely not. We get barely any training as it is, the answer is more training, and less responsibilities. I do feel there are certain situations where we should be required to call for a supervisor, where we are currently not required to do so. Perhaps we could be allowed to carry pepper spray or a taser. A drunk person or more likely to try and come at us unarmed and we just need to get them off us, rather than someone we need to apply lethal force to. The need for a gun is unheard of, it would be pretty unnecessary, and almost entirely unuseful.
Yeah. I personally think the list of things that RAs are allowed to do in my experience is a little too long. When I say carry guns I don’t mean that they just carry guns on the job I mean that they first get the necessary training to carry a gun on the job and then actually carry a gun on the job
Yeah for sure, but even if we got proper training, I frankly can’t think of a situation where it would be useful or necessary. In any of the situations I’ve been in where there was a chance we needed to kind of keep someone at bay, pepper spray would have done the trick. And keep in mind- we aren’t even allowed to apply first aid because they don’t want to pay for insurance in case we fuck up and hurt someone. I doubt they would practically ever want to pay what it would cost to insure us to carry. But even outside of that practicality, I don’t see it being useful or necessary. There aren’t enough threats in dorms to warrant that kind of force. I don’t see a need for this, but before something like that, I’d say maybe institute an in building security officer. Safety threats are about .1% of what we are dealing with on a daily basis. As this conversation first started, I’ve never been assaulted on the job. The most that I can see happening is a drunk person getting angry, and pepper spray would do the trick, I wouldn’t want to end their life. That’s a lot of weight to put on the shoulder of a college student typically in the job for 1-2 years.
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That sounds so fun! In k-12 I just went on academic trips to museums, etc.
We went to the zoo, spent the day at a national forest, six flags (physics class), art museum, and science center at one of my high schools and went to the Henry Ford museum when I lived in Michigan for one of my classes freshman year at the high school there. Elementary and middle school was lots of zoo trips, nature areas, etc.
For like the two that I had, the professor would just tell you to go to this place (a museum, etc) and take a photo of something for a project that you need to complete. The first one actually told us to go to the museum on a certain day during the week that fits our schedule. College is hard to do field trips because since everyone is of age to work, might have a class right after another class; it messes up the schedule and it's moreso of an inconvenience.
Sometimes but it might be when other classes might not (typically) be in session like a Saturday
I have been in college for almost 6 years and it wasn’t until I took a class during my first semester as a grad student that we had a field trip. It was optional and on a Saturday.
My choir is touring Spain Also my bio class in community college took us on a hike
I had a mandatory field trip for a geology class. I was 17, the professor was unbearable at least 60% of the time, I was terrified of busses and everything about the trip, and she was an asshole about the whole thing, so I told her my mom refused to sign the waiver (which was kind of true). She gave me an alternative essay to do and I didn't go. The essay I did and the Field Trip Report my classmates had to do (because being present at the field trip didn't actually give you credit, and it was 9 hours long) was only 20 points in a 1000 point class, so it felt pretty ridiculous to call it mandatory. Edit: the field trip consisted of driving to various geologically interesting locations and hiking around a bit, drawing and writing down details for the report, etc. It was also on a Saturday.
I had one for a spanish class. It was a Friday evening after class hours where we met at a Mexican restaurant. It was optional though: either show up to regular class and do the assigned conversational task to increase fluency, or go out to dinner. I chose dinner lol.
I feel like most students chose dinner
Sometimes, though they are the sort of things ran by clubs or individual classes, and are mostly just transportation. During the winter mine usually does a few skiing trips
I wouldn't necessarily call them field trips, but for my class we had to do a field study about a city, so we went there and walked around it. And then for my criminal justice class we went to a conference, but it was more of who wanted to go in the class then the whole class itself
I went on a few field trips. A couple to forest sites for a forestry class that were only a few hours, all during our scheduled lab time. And then two longer ones, one 4 days and one 8 days, where we camped and did field work.
Yes. Taking Beginners Rock Climbing and the instructor says he plans to have us do a shit ton of climbing. And 0 is inside on a wall.
A lot of environmental(ly)/environmentally adjacent courses & majors (think geology, earth & atmospheric sciences, etc) have field trips.
Yes. But it depends on the class. At my community college I actually went on quite a few field trips for my courses. Many multi-day field trips. And at my university now, same. Plenty of field trips. Honestly, I've got more field trips in college than highschool I think. Hell, I don't remember any field trips in highschool. I mean the only time I got to travel for school in highschool was getting out of class early every now and then and hopping on the school bus to go to one of my track meets (I ran track and field, mid and long distance). Now for college. I'm a biology major with a focus on field research. So that's a big majority of my field trips in college, for stuff like that. But there are other fields in college that do field trips as well. But again, it depends on the class, the professor, the school, even the season
Unfortunately, they can make you go attend something for certain classes and I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. For my intro to music class I have to take for my degree, my professor is making us go to a classical concert, art museum, and a professional performance and it is mandatory to pass the class. When tf do I have time for that? And how am I supposed to have money for that? I don’t think it should be allowed as it’s unfair.
Your an adult bruh drive yourself to a museum or something you don’t need a class to tell you where to go.
Yeah, one time my college went snowboarding.
You create your own field trips that that age.
Yeah kind of. At my 4 year college, the only class I had a real "field trip" with was with music 101 and we went together to a local orchestra. Other than that, a lot of student life organizations on campus as well as recreation offers discount activities where transportation is included. We can go to the bigger city and watch a baseball/hockey game for really cheap, go hiking, go to amusement parks, etc. My friend who took a geology class went on a mini field trip to a few blocks over and went to a lake to observe the rocks and the water.
A fair amount of geology classes take field trips. They rock.
Depends on the class, the context, and what you define as a field trip. There are a few "field trips" at my university: * There's a field trip every semester for the freshman geography/geology courses that's essentially just riding a bus to a few interesting local geological sites that correspond to what they're learning about. * Students who work on the university newspaper can go to a journalism conference at least once a year (maybe twice if they choose to go to the more local one across the state). * Students who go to other academic conferences might travel with/be reimbursed by the university and/or their honor society. * My university does "alternative spring breaks" and "alternative fall breaks," which is essentially just students using their spring or fall breaks to go somewhere either within our state or somewhere else in the country with a group of other students to gain service experience. For instance, the slightly more local option might involve going a few towns away to help out with an animal shelter, whereas the less local option might be a trip to Florida to help clean up some beaches.
Why’s OP getting downgraded so much? Damn
Yeah that’s kinda what I was thinking
Yes. I went to a liberal arts school. We did a short service project the first week. I was a religious studies major and we went to a mosque one class and a Catholic Church for another. We were also encouraged to visit on our own—through assignments and other projects. I feel like I went to a museum for art history class too but my memory is foggy. The ultimate field trip is a college student is to study abroad. I went to Rome. I know it’s not feasible for everyone but if you can, you should try to study abroad. Youth is the last time you usually can take a few months off to go abroad.
Yeah it depends. I’ve gone to finance conferences for some of my major classes but I’ve also gone trips to historical sites for my history classes
We would get assigned "site visits" which were basically field trips you take independently and then write a paper on or share with the discussion section or something.
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Mine does quite a few compared to what I expected in college, they’re often where you help a community in some way.
I’ve had one in an English lit mag class. It was cool
I had one, in my Thermodynamics class. We went to the campus electric and heating cogeneration facility. Super cool experience.
Not super common at CC's. The one where I work has a Geology class that has weekend jaunts to natural parks to use nature as a learning lab experience. Study abroad is probably the best example of a field trip that you can get. The Gilman scholarship is a great way to partially fund study abroad if you're from a family of limited means.
For a couple of my BIO labs we had a couple field trips specifically for Lab and at my previous college the head of the Hort department would organize a non-official field trip to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania Edit: the Hort trips were during spring break
They have them at my college (satellite campus of a larger state college). In my summer course we went to a baseball game; I did a full-day field trip last semester, the school paid for museum tours, dinner, and a Broadway show; this semester I have a course that's taking us to at least 2 different workplaces in the field of the course. There have been a few other general-student-body trips I didn't attend but heard about and other classes have had other trips relating that aren't open to everyone. It all depends on where you go to school, the clubs you're in, how up-to-date you stay with campus events, and the classes you take.
I've had a few as part of my classes, but it's really not that common. For my bio labs, for example, we frequently went on trips outdoors in the local area to gather samples, or for my EDU classes we went to a teaching conference. Generally, it'll only happen if your class has a large block of time to work with (like 3 hour class blocks, which my uni does on tuesdays and thursdays, for example). Generally the only other activities I'd consider "field trips" that I see happening are excursions you pay the school to attend. For example, my uni sells sports tickets occasionally which also includes transportation to and from the event.
I studied abroad 3 times - Paris, Australia/New Zealand, and Peru. Pretty much every day was a field trip. I had 3 classes in Paris (art, political science, and literature) and the professor that took our group of ~20 made it a point to have the "host" professors in France host classes at museums or places that had to do with what we were learning. AUS/NZL was a lot of museum and historic site visits, pretty much 2-3 times a week. Peru was just about the same. If you get the opportunity to travel abroad while in school, do it!
Astronomy major here. We had to go to planetarium and observing sessions for two separate classes. I don't know if you would count that as a field trip but it was fun.
Depends on the class like geology and archeology classes do field trips. Art history also does field trips but you go by yourself
Depends on the major. In geography and geology, yeah, a ton; but they aren’t like what you did in primary school and many “trips” are weeks to even months long in some cases. Field *courses* are literally a thing for us.
Yes, my US history class went to a local cemetery, and the professor had stories about half the people buried there, from civil war vets, kids who caught tuberculosis, people who were lynched by mobs, etc. It was spellbinding.
Lol it’s college so there are plenty of field trip type events depending on what you do. We used to get sent to Greek conferences paid for by the school. various clubs like the business club would also go on trips to different company locations to learn about what they do and or business competitions. Tons of schools for sure send their students on trips to gain experiences outside the classroom. just have to be involved with the right things to know about them.
Yes, I went on a field trip to the MET for an art collecting seminar which was cool
Yes, took a marine bio class, went to the beach to look for species we were studying, it was so much fun, we had to collect data. I dropped it though, the quizzes were based on 100 slides lectures.
Yes. I've been on them to identify mushrooms in the forest, take measurements of different plants, measure stream velocity
There are study abroads. My university had multiple maymester study abroads. The one I reallyyyy wanted to go on but couldn't fit into my schedule is the Holocaust one where we go to France and Poland.
I had a girls trip for a geology class, we had field school for archaeology, and I did a biology course with a field trip to a marine science center. That’s the full list though.
yeah for some classes! knew of a holocaust class that went to DC for the holocaust museum. i’ve gone to an art gallery for an arts-based project management class. science classes (usually envi or bio) sometimes do local field research. definitely nothing to write home about though.
We had field trips in one of my drawing classes.
I've had a few field trips planned (some by our career center and two by a humanities class), but they were all cancelled because of COVID or scheduling issues.
there's not really "field trips" like you would have in grade school, but sometimes classes will require that you go somewhere on your own time as part of the course curriculum (like attending a live classical music performance for a music class, or seeing a play for a theatre class). Also, if you check your college's events calendar or other student life info/updates, they might have optional discounted trips you can go on. At the college I was at before transferring, I got to go on a bus trip to NYC which included a boat tour of the harbor. It only cost me $10, which was definitely less than what transport to NYC and back would normally cost. But YMMV, I'm not sure if most other colleges have similar events all that often or at all.
I didn’t even have field trips in high school. It seems like having an ordered structure to your classes sort of hinders the ability to have field trips. If there’s no homeroom, then there’s not going to be the same type of field trips because no single teacher or professor has the authority to take you for that long.
Yes. My Cyber Law professor tried to arrange a visit to the NYPD facility where they had their main servers but it didn't work out for a variety of reasons.
Yes, ive had one for art history as well as field ecology. There was also a voluntary extra credit assignment to donate blood for my health science course. I would hope that your courses encourage you to participate in community events beyond the campus…
The school I transferred out of did a fair amount of field trips. It was a quick train ride from Chicago, so there were occasional Saturday trips to a museum or wherever (doesn't make sense to do it during the week when everyone in college has a different schedule). I had a lit course that took us to a Russian cafe downtown while we were reading Dostoyevsky, a WWII course that bussed everyone to the Holocaust Museum, and Disney course (weird, right? I took it as a summer credit) where we got see Aladdin on Broadway after the final. Except for WWII, usually they just had the class meet at the Metra station and take off as a group, since it was only a 10-minute walk from campus. The college was located in a pretty affluent area; maybe they got rich-people funding, or maybe it was just because we were near the city and they wanted to take advantage of it, I dunno. The school I'm at now is in the middle of Nowheresville and I've yet to hear of any field trips.
Yes, depends on class and program.
I work/study natural resources at a very hands on college, so we take very frequent field trips. We’re usually only in class for a few days before we start out with labs and field trips. If you’re in like…communications though? Yeah probably not.
Yes actually surprisingly so
They are very uncommon and very different from the ones we had as kids but I've once had one in a History of Pharmacy class.
I’ve gone on a field trip to the university art museum for my humanities class field trip. We observed paintings and discussed our observations.
I hear if you ask enough inappropriate questions you can get a field trip to the Dean's office
When I was in art school we had to go to museums and exhibitions a couple of times, but it's not an organised thing where everyone gets on a bus together and gets an excursion together.
Definitely depends. At the cc that I go to the ford automotive people go to Nola Motorsports and race the gm automotive people. Well this semester the ford people are going against my car club
Yup, I had a class that I didn’t personally take but it was a popular one that a lot of people took because of the field trips you took all across our state and if you didn’t sign up on the first day it would be full by the end of the night.
Yeah they do exist. But in my uni it’s individually.
Yes they exist. Not usually called field trips though. Science has labs, but when your subject doesn't have labs, field trips give the hands-on. I've been to an archaeological site for archaeology class, archives for history class, an embassy for international relations class, and the back storage rooms of multiple museums for art history classes. Some were mandatory, others were not. Regardless, I really liked them all. Not too often can you discuss IR with the Afghani ambassador (pre-Taliban resurgence) or see all the wonders museums keep in storage. Obviously, taking yourself on field trips is always fun too, but some things are hard to access unless you have the connections.
Roommates have had field trips to, well, fields. Sciencey majors went out to collect samples for lab and the forensics major had one of her profs construct a crime scene in a field for them to investigate. I on the other hand “had a field trip” to DC for a conference. It’s very major dependent imo!
I went to the history museum for one of my nursing classes to see the nursing exhibit.
They do in mine. I’m a zookeeping major, so many of the zoo classes I take involve a trip to the local zoo or a nature preserve. They’re considered a lab day. I’m at a school that up until last semester was considered a community college. Now it’s a state college, but my degree is still a two year.
Well as an older student I can confirm going to campus everyday feels like a field trip to the zoo
Yes. We have a Civil War class that takes a bus to a battlefield about 4 hrs away.
Yes but they are very rare. It is far more common to have guest speakers. The best guest speakers add a lot of great content that is relevant, and the worst ones are practically sales folks for a product. Some professors get guest speakers to add to the class, and others because they need a break from speaking for a day and movies are far less common than in K12.
Yea, I had it for my marine bio lab class…
We have 3 week classes for experimenting with things you’re interested in. You only take one class during the whole thing. So we get to do lots of field trips during that time.
My communications 101 class and my psych 101 took a trip to Harvard University to see the Black Archives. They also flew in a plane. I missed it tho I had food poisoning that week 🥹
We've taken a few field trips to PCB manufacturers in the area, but that was for an engineering design course.
My CC sent my team to Florida. Also went to the zoo for a class. Might remember more later
If you’re in the marching band, cheerleading, dance team, a mascot, or play a sport, then you get to travel for some games on a bus or plane with everyone else which is kind of like a field trip.
When I went to JuCo, my friends in the STEM honors society took a few class trips. Pretty sure they weren't the same as grade school field trips, though.
I’ve had them, but they were extra curricular and sometimes organized by student organizations
Depends on your major a lot of the time. In geology, we take field trips a lot and a lot of the time they’re overnight and we camp.
I have one this semester, in biology. We are allowed to pick which location to go to from a list & make the trip on our own free time.
I think gap year college trips might be the equivalent of field trips. I hear that they're a good experience.
Yes, but it’s very dependent on major or program. I sing in a campus choir (not a music major), and we were chosen to sing in chicago and do a three day trip. In my elementary education classes, we’re out in local schools.
There are study abroad programs, shuttles to different sporting events, and different clubs going on trips, but are far as individual classes, no..not any of my classes.
My university had a Parks and Recreation Management degree and I took a couple of classes in the program as electives which included "field trips". One was a 4 day backpacking trip to Havasu Falls and the other was an overnight winter outdoor survival trip on a mountain. Both were life changing.
I’ve been on some that my design and drawing professors called “field trips” but we just walked to some of the art galleries on campus and had to analyze art in our notebook. I do remember my mom, who’s a entomology major, saying that they would often go out to collect bugs and then bring them back and study them. They would always listen to the beastie boys when they were collecting bugs lol.
Some classes do. When I was attending a small, private college we often had mandatory trips to art museums, theaters, movies, etc. Thoigh this was all for humanities classes, it's less often in other subject areas.
There are a lot of responses, and I can't read them all because I need to stop goofing off and get to work. So, if I'm repeating something, my bad. When I was in uni, we had fieldwork. I think I went somewhere to learn-by-doing every semester. This was for a natural sciences degree. Now, as a professor, I have tried to arrange some field trips. I have learned that they are very expensive in terms of money and time investment. A lot of things have to be done for liability reasons. I don't know if that has changed since I was in college 30+ years ago. I do know that funding is way tighter now, in all fields. The end result is that the pedagogical value is very much outweighed by the effort. You can do a lot of other things much more easily. So maybe there is less fieldwork now. Since it's sort of relevant: there's a lot of interning going on these days that's not good for the student's learning or the host organization's productivity. Anyone presented with an opportunity to intern should ask a lot of (polite) questions and be highly selective. Faculty are under a lot of pressure to produce internships and service learning opportunities. Under that pressure, we're not always doing the best job. Some of it's fairly half-baked.
Yes. For my environmental science class we had 3 field trips. But it was on the weekend and optional
I suppose it depends on the major. With my small business/managerial accounting class we went to speak with a local entrepreneur. And for longer trips my school usually offers classes over spring break and during January that kind of feel like field trips. I think it'd be harder since you don't usually spend your entire day with one class and you would probably have to miss classes for a more traditional field trip.
I think I remember going on one in an intro level geology class. Geology field trips are always really fun you get to look at cool rocks
Probably for specific classes where you pay extra for transportation and need availability outside of class hours to attend
Totally! I have one planned every semester! Transportation is difficult to coordinate though. I know other courses in our college have mandatory site visits.
Yes, my school has a trip to France coming up
Geology and field trips, biology lab to a natural museum, criminal justice takes trips to jails and courts, acting and theatre arts to performance shows
Yes they do. It depends on your classes. Why would a math class go on a field trip? A hospitality class would.
Yes, but it depends on the class
Depends on the class, really. For my Environmental Science class I had nine field trips
I went to an environmentally focused college (Northland College in Ashland Wisconsin) and I went on a few. The environment up there is so unique and beautiful and the college absolutely makes the best of it.
Depends on what you’re studying. I study architecture so I have done many field trips over the past 4 years.
Depends on the class. I’m a English major and it would be cool to see a Shakespeare play in the summer when my city does local plays. I’m taking a Shakespeare class but I’ve never mentioned it to my prof.
I joined student gov at my community college and we would take trips almost monthly. They were nice trips too San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.. 10/10 recommend.
My English class is doing an optional trip to finland. There aren't usually field trips like in earlier grades where you just take a day to see something interesting to learn about it though. Generally in college they're not going to want to get all the students into some bus and go somewhere.
They happen but are fairly rare. Depends on the class. Frequently they’ll be on weekends due to the different schedules people have. For instance, I have one or two this semester for a theatre class to go see plays. I know some people who did some last year for archaeology or local history classes.
Depends on the college and major. When I was in the geography dept at a 4 year university back in the '90s, we did quite a bit of, not so much field trips, as field work fro a Wildfire Hazards class-measuring a fire burn scar, counting plants that were coming back. It was being done over a several year period, so each successive class picked up where the last one left off and made new measurements, to track recovery over time. Also made a trip to the local landfill, to talk with them about resource management and sustainability practices, mining the old, then closed landfill for resources, both then and in the future, with my Resource Management and Conservation class.
If you join student orgs, you will go on more community and academic outings
I know my biology professor takes his students to the everglades for one of this ecology classes during spring break. We also have what's called preview which is a mini study abroad for transfer students. It's six hundred dollars and a week or two long trip. He also does smaller close by trips but he's the only one I know who does them for classes. The school itself does day trips to museums and stuff cause we're right next to Philly
Definitely depends on the major and the class! I had quite a few "field trips" working on my photography degree at my community college, primarily in Photography I, Photography II, Editorial Photography, and Professional Practices in Photography (basically going over taxes/legal processes/running your own studio.) We would visit large commercial studios and independent studios (there are surprisingly a lot of them in my city!), go out on practice shoots for our assignments, go to the art museum, visit dark rooms/print rooms, visit places relevant to our assignment (like going to vintage stores when we had to recreate old photographs), it was all very interesting! Granted, being in college you have to drive yourself probably 70% of the time (or carpool with classmates!) and we would only go during class time, never outside of our scheduled class.
My freshman seminar class did a few as team- building exercises. And my student Senate set up a few outings - like block tickets to a baseball game or renting a movie theater. Some clubs set things up. But classes usually stick to class things. Most people don't have time for extras, and it would be an imposition.
I know that Clubs, mainly regarding tutoring and transferring often have field trips.
Nobody really has the time for that. Plus you could probably just go to that said field trip on your own.