Experience 2024

Join us on Thursday, March 28, 2024!

Live your best Trojan life: attend Experience! This isn’t a typical college preview day — you’ll attend college classes, enjoy campus dining, and tour housing. Food, event t-shirt, and Trojan spirit are FREE! You’re welcome to bring family and friends to experience college life with you: we even offer a parent session, where financial aid, scholarships, and campus life will be discussed.

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024
Time: 1:30-5:00 p.m.
Location: Donaghey Student Center (View on Google Maps)

Attend Experience if you are:

  • New to the college search or just starting to explore UA Little Rock, and
  • Interested in undergraduate programs

Registration closed on March 26 at Midnight. Walk-ins are welcome!


Event Guide

Experience is almost here! Find out where you can park, what you’ll be doing, and how to connect to Guest Wifi.

Sample Classes

ScheduleEvent ParkingGuest WiFi


Sample Classes

Classes are paired together, so your guide can escort you to each classroom. These class groupings may be different when you attend the event.

GROUP: CLASS 1: CLASS 2:
1 Learning Games in the Library

Come play a small library learning game like the lessons you will see in your classes. Learn more about information and how to use it.

Ottenheimer Library

Ethics Bowl

We’ll think through the ethical issues in a real-world problem. Students will get to speak with each other about an ethical ‘case,’ hear multiple perspectives on it, and will leave with a deeper understanding of how to understand and communicate their own ethical views.

Philosophy

2 Hacking the Future: An Inside Look at Cybersecurity

Interested in protecting data & catching cybercriminals? Get an inside look at the exciting career paths in cybersecurity including cybersecurity engineering & management, ethical hacking & cybercrime analysis.

Cybersecurity

Web Design & Development: Building the Internet of Tomorrow

We’ll take a look at new and emerging technologies driving the the next generation of web based tools and services.

Information Science

3 Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice Monopoly

Come join us to learn about the criminal justice system by playing CJ monopoly! Learn about the different stages of the system, case processing decisions, fairness, disparity, and collateral consequences of justice involvement in a dynamic game setting.

Criminal Justice

Women, Race and Capital Punishment in the United States and Arkansas

This interactive class examines the surprising historical role that race and gender play in capital punishment in both the United States and Arkansas.

History

4 Chemistry: What do chemists do?

Why choose chemistry? Why is chemistry Important? What subjects does chemistry go with? What skills will I get from studying chemistry? If you are curious about these questions or you haven’t choosing a career path yet, come to our class we will provide a better understanding of how chemistry works.

Chemistry

Hacking the Future: An Inside Look at Cybersecurity

Interested in protecting data & catching cybercriminals? Get an inside look at the exciting career paths in cybersecurity including cybersecurity engineering & management, ethical hacking & cybercrime analysis.

Cybersecurity

5 Minerals Under The Microscope

Learn how geologists use polarized light microscopes to examine rocks and identify minerals. Each participant will get hands-on experience using a microscope!

Geology

Intro to Piano

Introduction to Piano – we have 14 keyboards. Discuss how to read music easily and begin a lifelong learning of a popular instrument.

Music

6 Spanish for Heritage Speakers

This class is designed for students who grew up speaking Spanish in the home, but have taken little to no formal education in Spanish. The goal is to improve reading, writing, and speaking so that you can use Spanish more effectively in the workplace.

World Languages: Spanish

Learning Games in the Library

Come play a small library learning game like the lessons you will see in your classes. Learn more about information and how to use it.

Ottenheimer Library

7 Forensic Anthropology: Stories in our Skeletons

Forensic Anthropologists are experts in the human skeleton. In this class, you will see some real examples of cases that Forensic Anthropology has helped to solve and learn about the techniques these scientists use.

Anthropology

Exploring Art + Design

Students will attend a class in the Windgate Center of Art + Design, choosing to sit in on either ceramics, drawing, or photography classes, or take a tour of the woodshop.

Art and Design

8 “Meme-orable Rhetoric”: Learning Ethos, Logos, and Pathos through Memes

By the end of this lesson, students will have a better understanding of the rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, and pathos), and how different forms of communication, such as memes, can be used to reach an audience effectively.

Rhetoric and Writing

Exploring Art + Design

Students will attend a class in the Windgate Center of Art + Design, choosing to sit in on either ceramics, drawing, or photography classes, or take a tour of the woodshop.

Art and Design

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Full Schedule

Admissions staff and campus volunteers will be available to point you in the right direction throughout the event

View the Campus Map.

 

TIME: ACTIVITY: LOCATION:
Parking Locations
Parking closest to event

Experience begins in the Donaghey Student Center. Parking is free until 7 p.m.

Use the link to use Google Maps for directions.

West 32nd Street,

Parking Deck

Experience 1:30-5 p.m. Donaghey Student Center (DSC)
Check-in

Admissions staff will be at the lower concourse entrance for check-in—stop by to get your Trojan welcome bag with the event guide, meal ticket, and visitors guide!

DSC Lower Concourse
Information Expo

Representatives from each academic college will be available to answer your questions about their majors.

DSC Upper and Lower Concourse
2 p.m. Welcome to Experience
Welcome Session

Make the most of Experience – win a scholarship!

DSC Ledbetters
2:30 p.m. Students Guided to Classes
Group Leaders will guide students to their classes.

Students will be with an Admissions staff member during the class sessions and will be brought back to Check-out to meet their families.

DSC Ledbetters
Parent Session begins (ends at 4 p.m.)

UA Little Rock student support staff will provide parents with more information about supporting their students as they plan their transition to the University.

DSC Ledbetters
2:45 p.m. Class Sessions begin
Students will take sample classes taught by UA Little Rock faculty.

Check out your class options! Class One begins at 2:45 p.m., and Class Two begins at 3:30 p.m.

Locations Vary
4 p.m. Class and Parent Sessions end
Closes at 5 p.m. Check-out of Experience

Fill out a survey and grab your free t-shirt at the check-out table! You can also grab your school excuse letter if you need one here.

DSC Lower Concourse
Tour Start Times Guided Housing Tours
4:20 p.m. and 4:40 p.m. Campus Tours

Explore campus by taking a guided tour with an Admissions Counselor.

DSC

Lower Concourse

Housing Tours

After your campus tour, stop by the Campus Living table to take a guided tour of the residence halls.

West Hall
After Check-out
Closes at 5 p.m. Application Station

Apply for admission for free during the event!

DSC Lower Concourse
Closes at 7 p.m. Buffet Dinner

Bring your meal ticket to the Trojan Cafe.

DSC Upper Concourse, Trojan Café
7 p.m. Free Parking Ends
The Parking Deck gate will be lowered.

If you leave after 7 p.m., you will need to pay $1 in cash to leave the Parking Deck.

Parking Deck

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Event Parking

Image description: Map of Experience Parking & Check-in Location

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When you arrive, Experience will begin in the Donaghey Student Center. The closest parking will be in the Parking Deck off of West 32nd Street, which will be free to use until 7 p.m.

Google Maps

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Guest Wifi

Network: Experience UA Little Rock
Passphrase: gotrojans2024!

Questions about Experience?

You can email us at admissions@ualr.edu before business closes on Wednesday, March 27, or you can call 501-400-6956 on Thursday, March 28.

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