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Go beyond the classroom

Get ready for some adventure for January Term—our four-week immersive program during Spring Session A focusing on three core areas:

  1. Citizenship: Enhance the community and make an impact on issues like homelessness, environmental sustainability and urban renewal.
  2. Language and culture: Learn the way of life, cuisine and language of other countries through interactive exploration.
  3. Career preparation: Build your resume, learn new interviewing skills, land an internship and get prepared for your future career.

Immerse yourself

Begin your first year with the Citizenship Project, then take language and culture courses in year two and finish with career preparation in year three or four. You may have the opportunity to:

  • Perform an off-Broadway production in New York City
  • Attend the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C.
  • Intern with the ESPN X Games in Aspen, Colorado
  • Start a business on a shoestring budget
  • Study the connections between humans and the Atlantic Ocean
  • Discover what's it's like to be a public school teacher
Mark Luttio
English has only one word for “knowing.” Other languages make a distinction between theoretical knowledge and embodied, experiential knowledge. J-Term allows students to gain embodied knowledge.
Mark Luttio, College of Arts and Sciences, adjunct professor

Citizenship Project

Your first introduction to Citizenship Project is during Lynn 101, a required class for first-year students. You and your classmates can choose your impact project for the spring semester.

During Spring Session A, seek solutions for a civic issue, problem or topic. Plus, help with our annual Comfort Cases project and package donated goods for children in foster care.

Small acts can lead to big changes

Students help out at the Tri-County Humane Society.
Students deliver handmade toys to animals at Tri-County Humane Society.
Students pack comfort cases
Students pack Comfort Cases for foster children.
Students load a van with comfort cases
Students load up a van to deliver hundreds of Comfort Cases to foster children.
Monti Washington speaks at Lynn during J-Term.
Monti Washington speaks to students about standing up to adversity.
Students paint with their hands at J-Term event.
Students paint shirts with their hands.
Students clean up the beach at Gumbo Limbo during J-term.
Students work together to clean up the beach at Gumbo Limbo.
Beach Cleanup during J-Term 2019.
Darren Allen and students work together at a beach clean-up day.
Students work on an archeological project during J-Term.
Students work on an archeological project during J-Term.
J-term students learn hands-on the importance of recycling.
J-term students learn hands-on the importance of recycling.
We picked up approximately 2,500 pounds of trash in just a couple of hours. Even the smallest piece, every piece is important.
Anna Krift, professor, international relations director, Citizenship Project

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