Create Your Path,
Live Your Future,
Find Your CALLing

Why the CALL?

The CALL is a unique, customized semester for Georgetown students wanting to experience their future now in real time.

Live downtown immersed in DC culture; create new networks, skills, and memories to last a lifetime; all while bridging your professional goals with your intellectual pursuits.

This opportunity is open to all Georgetown undergraduate students, and to incoming transfer students.

"Participating in the CALL and living downtown was perhaps the most enriching experience in my time at Georgetown... Georgetown teaches students to engage with community members, but the CALL takes that one step further by providing students with unparalleled opportunities to put that in practice and engage with the local DC community.

The CALL is nothing short of a professional kick starter and propeller. Even long after leaving the program, I’ve been able to use the program’s practical skills to advance my connections, character, and career. For students seeking diverse and hands-on experiences that expands education far beyond the classroom, this is for you!

My experience in the pre-law track at the CALL gave me such great insight into the legal profession. Taking classes that integrated both academic and professional learning allowed me to get a sense of my personal and professional values. The experiential learning component of the CALL is great, but my favorite part was living off-campus, building community within the amazing cohort and exploring what D.C. has to offer outside of the Georgetown bubble!"

Fall 2023 Courses

The CALL offers students small class sizes, dedicated faculty, and the whole District of Columbia as its classroom. Take exclusive classes like The District of Possibilities, Mapping the City, or Solidarity Economy: Podcast, or fulfill your general education requirements including Science for All, HALC, and History 099!

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New! Creating an Equitable City

This immersive semester offers innovative courses with professional/design experiences. Engage with community partners, and gain the skills and context necessary to build a more equitable city of the future. This is a partnership with Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Global Cities Initiative.

Pre-Law @ The CALL

Our most popular pathway! Take exclusive courses like U.S. Law: Theory and Practice or Urban Politics, along with small class size Government courses like U.S. Con Law or First Amendment, as you figure out your why to law school. Add in great legal-related internships and special events, and you have the ingredients for future-facing semester.

Humanities @ The CALL

New! Washington D.C. is not only the nation's capital, its the nation's cultural capital. Through the CALL exclusive courses like Public Humanities at Work, D.C. Stories, and Writing & Public Space, students learn how to engage their Humanities interests with multiple career trajectories and opportunities.

NEW! The AWES Program

Advancing Women's Empowerment and Service (AWES), open to all undergraduate Georgetown students, offers downtown-only courses like Women & Leadership and Leadership in Action, mentoring by the AWES Practitioner in Residence and special programming. Did we mention the $3000 stipend for AWES Student Fellows?

In a semester at The CALL, undergraduates view D.C. through a new lens. Professors use the city as their classroom, they bring students to museums, halls of power, communities and neighborhoods. Here, students gain real world experience that builds the professional capital that will shape their future.

The CALL is located at the Capitol Campus, which is the convergence of Georgetown University, community partners, government entities, and the private sector.

The Capitol Applied Learning Labs is Georgetown's signature immersive innovation hub downtown.

The CALL offers a whole new way for students to apply themselves in the world as they develop their authentic selves. Moving off the hilltop for a term to the Capitol Campus, students can experience the fullness of Washington, D.C., engage with local communities, build professional networks, and explore the power of using their education for the common good.

President John DeGioia

The CALL at a Glance

The Capitol Campus

CALL students live downtown, intern in the heart of the District, and take coursework integrated into the fabric of the city - experiencing DC in entirely new and transformative ways.

The Future of Higher Education

As a part of Georgetown's Red House, The CALL exemplifies the next generation of the higher education experience. Click the icon to learn more.

Equity & Access

From insuring educational equity and access to creating diverse and inclusive environments, The CALL offers students high touch programming and financial assistance to propel their potential.

Praxis between Theory and Experience

As an applied learning lab, we create innovative ways for students -- and faculty -- to integrate academic and professional learning and apply knowledge in the context of our nation's capital.

The Innovative Undergraduate Experience

One semester at The CALL will help students to maximize their internship, integrate their personal and professional development, and shape their trajectory after graduation.

Learn more about how The CALL is transforming education.

Create Your Path, Live Your Future, Find Your CALLing