Students interested in combining academic interests with their on-campus residential experiences should consider applying to live in a Living Learning Community (LLC) next year.
The nine LLCs available on-campus are located in traditional dormitories, but students have the opportunity to live with others who have common interests in a particular subject area.
“The LLCs are built around common academic or personal interests,” said Stacey Parker, assistant director for academic initiatives in the Department of Housing and Residential Education, in an email. “LLCs provide a way for students to bridge classroom learning with the residential living experience.”
Each LLC has a weekly meeting in which residents take part in discussions relevant to their community’s specialization.
All have a service component where students participate in volunteer opportunities on-campus and in the surrounding community, and some have a required class component or guest lectures.
Emily Reckard, a freshman in the Sustainability LLC, which focuses on environmentally sustainable living, said she enjoys the opportunity to gather with others to discuss different ideas rather than take a class in that subject area.
“It’s given me a different perspective on a lot of different things,” she said.
Anne Futterer, a junior who lived in the Women Experiencing Learning and Leadership (WELL) LLC last year, said her community helped her find her passion of working with women and childrens’ issues.
“I don’t think I would have discovered that had I not been in WELL,” she said.