In addition to the traditional housing choices offered, we provide several special housing and learning community options. All first year Foundation students are a part of the First Year Experience Living Learning Communities.
First Year Experience (FYE): Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are cohorts of 30 first-year students who share a mix of classes (including their Foundation courses, History of Art and Design HAD111/112 and Humanities and Media Studies HMS101A/C) and live in the same residence hall. Commuter students similarly belong to First Year Experience: Learning Communities (FYE: LCs).
The LLCs/LCs enable students to build community. Learning and living in smaller groups, students can more comfortably find others with whom to work, share ideas, brainstorm and check in with about the myriad aspects of their first year experience. Sharing the same classes, students more ably find relationships across disciplines and media; they not only benefit from more accessible and frequent communication and collaboration with peers but with faculty as well. FYE LLCs receive additional funding for curriculum related trips and community building events.
The goal of FYE: LLCs/LCs is to create in and out of class environments that support student engagement, belonging and success.
The program reflects a collaboration between Foundation, SLAS (Gen Ed and History of Art and Design, and Humanities and Media Studies), Residential Life and Housing, Academic Advising, and Student Involvement.