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Three BYU Marriott ExDM seniors spent their summers gaining valuable experience and practicing the skills they learned in the ExDM program as interns across the country.
As a freshman, Brooke Taylor was searching for more than a major. She wanted to be part of a community that would also develop her personal skills. Then she found the ExDM program.
BYU Marriott ExDM alumna Katie Allred isn't only providing young people in Utah with adventures to experience, but also with skills to help them overcome some of life's biggest challenges.
A unique course offered at BYU Marriott is helping to teach students about the importance of diversity and inclusion.
Two women from BYU Marriott's therapeutic recreation major have teamed up to help adolescent girls strengthen themselves and themselves and their families.
After BYU Marriott ExDM alumna Macie Briggs Duncan went on a trip to Disneyland, she set a goal to help create enjoyable and memorable experiences for others.
A painter, dancer, and designer, Kari Durrant describes herself as a primarily right-brained person. She intended to major in dance at BYU, but after encountering recreational therapy as part of a class assignment, Durrant eventually made the switch to recreation management. Her new major, she discovered, would enable her to use her creative side in ways she hadn’t expected.
Most people would not move by themselves to an island they had never visited in the middle of a global pandemic. BYU Marriott TRM senior Stephanie Janczak is not one of those people.
The Department of Experience Design and Management at BYU Marriott had to get creative this Fall semester when the program welcomed its new cohort during its annual new student orientation.
When Katie Morgan took a social innovation class at BYU last semester, she didn't anticipate joining a research group based on empowering women. Now, she's part of a team researching how to help women find confidence and new opportunities
Walking timidly into the Tanner Building for her first class of her freshman year, Melissa Trautman didn’t know what to expect from the class or from her future BYU experience. She hoped the course title, Creating a Good Life, would come to literal fruition, but she had no idea the significant impact the class would have on her life.
By the time college starts, most students have gotten rid of their childhood toys. But for BYU Marriott's Experience Design and Management (EXDM) program, professors encourage students to play with toys.
Kickboxing, kayaking, and rock climbing are challenging activities, and for those with physical or mental disabilities, they can seem nearly impossible but the No Barriers Summit attendees would tell you otherwise.
Emily Codling accomplishes what she sets her mind to. The secret to living your dreams, she says, is asking for the opportunity to do so.
ExDM student Lindsey Sampson river rafted in Thailand, visited the great mountains of Nepal, and climbed the Great Wall of China all for school credit.
Pointillism can give insightful perspective on a student's academic journey. BYU Marriott ExDM students learned how at the department's first-ever Senior Peak Experience.
What role does emotion play in a transformative experience? That's what BYU Marriott experience design management student researchers will present on in Melbourne, Australia.
The ExDM program fit Stringham's ideal major because she received the business core she needed while her major classes were focused on creative areas.
A team of nine therapeutic recreation students helped conduct research on the travel experiences of individuals with disabilities.
BYU Marriott alum Alena J. Turner quite literally bends over backward to help others. The 2013 therapeutic recreation graduate has influenced many children—including her own—during her successful career as a gymnastics coach.
New experience design and therapeutic recreation students cultivated new relationships with professors and peers during an outdoor adventure.
A BYU Marriott alum combines work and play as she teaches patients how to recover from addiction through mountain biking, canoeing, and rock climbing.
Fencing, paragliding, and rowing gondolas are a few of the once-in-a-lifetime experiences that students had on the Experience Design and Management Study Abroad.
A strong relationship with the Savior and a keen sense of humor have helped Kris Belcher through the hardest trials of her life.