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Living Learning Experience
What are Living Learning Communities?
All of our residence halls work to provide communities where student learning is enhanced by programming opportunities. Residence Life & Housing has worked with colleagues across the campus to develop opportunities that have even greater potential to increase student success.
Living Learning Communities (LLC) provide the opportunity to become part of a unique experience with programs and facilities to advance the interests of the community members. Each LLC is connected with a specific academic unit or department that provides support to the residents in these communities and direction for developmental activities.
Current Living Learning Communities for Upper-Division students include:
Bridge Experience
- Location: Independence East
This LLC in Independence East is designed for students who have successfully completed the Associate in Arts Program. Bridge Experience programs are designed to connect students to University resources, provide social events, and allow students to explore additional career options.
The following special programming is planned:- • Weekly resource connection programs
- • Activities with academic programs
- • Programs designed with Career Services Center
- • Weekly social events organized by residents
- • Mentoring programs with Residence Life & Housing staff and former Associate in Arts students.
Contact: Sean Watson, Complex Coordinator at spwatson@udel.edu or (302) 831-7079
- Location: Independence East
- International House (iHouse)
- Location: Kent
International House is a global community comprising University of Delaware international and domestic students. Residents of International House experience a rich, cultural exchange as well as participate in extended programming and community building. Conveniently located in Kent Hall on the South Central Green near Morris Library, Student Health Services and classrooms and labs on the Green.
Community members will be provided with many opportunities to interact with people from other cultures both one-on-one and in a group setting.
To apply, select International House in the Living Learning Experience section of the Housing Application. Complete the remainder of the application according to the instructions.
Contact: Cheri Skipworth, Complex Coordinator at cskipwor@udel.edu or (302) 831-3003
- Location: Kent
- Puppy Raisers of UD (PRoUD) and Other Service Animal Raisers
- Location: Christiana Towers and Thomas McKean
The Puppy Raisers of UD (PRoUD) and Other Raisers community allows students the unique opportunity to raise assistance dogs in the residence halls as part of a long-standing community service initiative.
Students may apply to raise a dog through one of the University of Delaware's recognized sight dog programs (The Seeing Eye, Inc., Guiding Eyes, Canine Partners for Independence), which are partnered with Registered Student Organizations.
In order to be a part of this community, students must gain approval through their respective organizations and apply to this community through the housing application. After the application is submitted, students will meet with the Assistant Director for Student and Community Advocacy to gain admittance to the community. This year, the communities will be in select areas of Thomas McKean and the Christiana Towers.
Contact: Katie Morrison, Assistant Director for Student and Community Advocacy at kpifer@udel.edu or (302) 831-4663.
- Location: Christiana Towers and Thomas McKean
Current Living Learning Communities for First-Year students include:
REQUIRED BY MAJOR OR PROGRAM
The following communities are required by major, college or program:
- Biology Living Learning Community
- Required for all Biological Sciences Majors (non-honors)
Location: George Read
Contact: Dr. David Usher, Professor, Biological Sciences
bio-questions@udel.edu
302-831-6977
Description: The Biology LLC was developed by faculty members of the department to encourage success in the classroom by developing programs and support systems.
Students in the Biology LLC will gain knowledge from upper-division student mentors who are advanced Biology and Chemistry majors. These LLC Mentors will foster the development of learning teams by offering team-building social events and organizing study groups. - The ability to study in teams will be invaluable in helping you cope with the new, integrated, introductory biology and chemistry courses being offered in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE) Lab, a new science teaching facility at UD.
The upper-division student mentors will also support activities of Biology majors in your Freshman Year Seminar course and connect community members to opportunities and events in Biology and the greater University environment.
Biological Science faculty members organize an activity each month in the residence hall to help you learn about research opportunities and the expansive career choices for the major. Career activities related to health professions are coordinated with the Pre Health Professionals LLC.
All Biology majors (who are not in the Honors Program) will be assigned to live in the BIO LLC which is located in the George Read Complex, located in the Laird Campus first-year neighborhood.
Due to this requirement, roommate choices may be requested, but cannot be guaranteed.
In addition to the BIO LLC, the George Read Complex also houses the Discover Our World (CEOE) LLC and the other half (approximately) of the complex is intermixed with first-year students from a variety of other majors.
- Required for all Biological Sciences Majors (non-honors)
- Discover our World! College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (CEOE) Living Learning Community
- Required for all majors in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (non-honors)
Location: George Read
Contact: Dr. Nina Buchanan, Acting Assistant Dean, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
jb@udel.edu
Description: The CEOE LLC was developed by the Dean’s office and faculty members of the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment to encourage your success at UD. The LLC accomplishes this by developing a sense of community among the entering cohort of students in the college all of whom share an interest in and passion for the earth and her systems.
Your experiences as a CEOE LLC member will include additional connection with the faculty, Assistant Dean and upper-division Enviro-mentors through formal and informal interactions and ongoing programmatic offerings. The CEOE Enviro-mentors are upper-level students enrolled in majors in CEOE who have been successful academically. They will serve as student mentors and assist students during their first year.
You will be able to participate in study groups, support programs and other activities in order to connect with other LLC members and to maximize your potential for success.
All first-year students who have been admitted to CEOE majors will be housed in the CEOE-LLC. All CEOE majors (who are not in the Honors Program) will be assigned to live in the CEOE LLC, which is located in the George Read Complex, part of the Laird Campus first-year neighborhood.
Due to this requirement, roommate choices may be requested, but cannot be guaranteed.
In addition to the CEOE LLC, the George Read Complex also houses the Biological Sciences (BIO) LLC and the other half (approximately) of the complex is intermixed with first-year students from a variety of other majors.
- Required for all majors in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment (non-honors)
- First-Year Honors
- Required for all first-year honors students
Location: Louis L. Redding
Contact: University of Delaware Honors Program
honorsprogram@udel.edu
302-831-1195
Freshmen admitted to the Honors Program are housed together in Louis L. Redding Hall, located in the East Campus first-year neighborhood. Living in first-year Honors housing is a requirement of the freshman year in Honors, although it is possible to get a waiver of this requirement if you plan to live at home with a parent or guardian and commute to campus.
The Honors freshman community is enhanced by Munson Fellows. Munson Fellows are upper-division Honors peer mentors who assist students with questions or problems, both academic and social. They plan, promote and encourage involvement in social and cultural activities and help with the overall adjustment to college life.
- Required for all first-year honors students
- Visual Art Living Learning Community
- Required for Art majors
Location: Ray Street Complex
Contact: Professor Martha Carothers, Art Advising Coordinator, martha@udel.edu
Professor Jon Cox, Art Ambassador Coordinator, joncox@udel.edu
Art majors thrive in the camaraderie of the studio environment and through interaction with other artists, people and the environment. The Living Learning Community (LLC) for UD first-year art majors ART-BAAS fosters a significant experience for you upon arrival and throughout the year. It's the chance to form a community of artists and good friends.
Advanced art majors live among first-year students as LLC Mentors to offer ongoing support, programming, events and activities to connect you with upper level art majors, graduate students and art professors. All kinds of opportunities open up if you're living among other creatives like yourself with a passion for art.
All first-year students who have been admitted to ART-BAAS majors will be housed in the Visual Art LLC, which is located in the Ray Street Complex, part of the Laird Campus first-year neighborhood.
Due to this requirement, roommate choices may be requested, but cannot be guaranteed.
- Required for Art majors
- Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Living Learning Community
- Location: Eliphalet Gilbert
Contacts: Captain Tim Marriner
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies
marriner@udel.edu
(302) 831-2863
Description: The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Living Learning Community is sponsored by the Air Force ROTC program, Detachment 128. the AFROTC LLC program is only open to first-year AFROTC students (freshmen or sophomores).
Participation is not mandatory, but is highly encouraged for all new cadets. Goals of the AFROTC LLC are to:
- • Build camaraderie among first-year AFROTC cadets
- • Create a community of cadets who have similar goals and career aspirations
- • Provide a mentoring program with AFROTC cadre and current cadets
- • Host teambuilding events organized by the peer mentor
- • Promote excellence in academics, fitness and character.
Interested students should reach out to Captain Marriner as soon as possible.
- Location: Eliphalet Gilbert
- Community Engagement Living Learning Community
- Are you interested in serving the community? Discussing social issues? Becoming a community leader and change agent? Open to any major. Honors students may apply
Location: Louis L. Redding
Contacts: Ms Susan Serra, Office of Service Learning, serra@udel.edu, (302) 831-3188
Dr. Daniel Rich, School of Public Policy and Administration, drich@udel.edu, (302) 831-6835
Peer Mentor: Marisa Trezza, Sophomore Organizational and Community Leadership major, MarisaT@udel.edu
Description:
Who: Freshman of all majors who care about serving their community, learning about social issues, becoming leaders within their community and creating change.
What: We will gather to explore social issues and solutions, becoming a change maker, and working together to execute change!
Where: An East Campus Residence hall. Depending on major, members will be placed in a section of the First Year Seminar (FYS) class where students will have an extended opportunity to get to know their peer mentor, learn how to take action in a community and encourage others to do the same!
When: During the first semester of the school year, we will work closely together to identify our issues and our response. The second semester will be focused on individual action within our communities! Your peer mentor will be there to help you secure the resources you need to make a change!
Why: We do what we do because we care about community and want to see it thrive!
The School of Public Policy and Administration and the Office of Service Learning created this LLC to bring together like-minded students who want to make a difference in the world. The activities we pursue are designed to identify issues and explore sustainable solutions to community problems and situations.
Students live together in the residence halls, learn together in the FYS course and in activities run by the peer mentor and create responses!
This LLC provides a unique opportunity that allows students who care about community to all live together and create a think tank for social issues and community problems.
- Are you interested in serving the community? Discussing social issues? Becoming a community leader and change agent? Open to any major. Honors students may apply
- LGBTQ+ and Racial Justice Activism Living Learning Community
- Optional for students in any major who are passionate about social justice and activism.
Location: Louis L. Redding
Contact: Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Assistant Professor, Director of the Sexualities and Gender Studies Minor, Women and Gender Studies Department
pbh@udel.edu
Description: Interested in social justice and activism?
Would you like support in exploring aspects of your own identity?
Interested in building a better world where all people are valued and appreciated?
The LGBTQ+ and Racial Justice Activism Living Learning Community responds to the growing socio-political awareness and activism of today’s college students. As we’ve seen, many students on campuses across the globe have identified the need to actively transform our world into a more respectful, just and nurturing environment for all. Students are mobilizing to create substantive change.
With a focus on LGBTQIA+ issues as they relate to racial justice issues, this space will support and connect struggles across dis/ability, ethnicity, religion, class status, nationality and more. Based on the premise of an interdependent world in which we must be accountable to each other, this learning community increases exposure to contemporary models of social justice organizing and action.
Additionally, students will learn the importance of intergenerational connections through the marginalized histories of those who came before us and inspire us today. Participants will build a network with others working towards social change on campus and in the community.
- Optional for students in any major who are passionate about social justice and activism.
- Material Culture Living Learning Community
- Optional for students who are accepted into the following majors: Art History, Anthropology, History or Art Conservation – apply via the My Housing Portal.
Location: Harrington B
Contact: Dr. Vicki Cassman, Director of Undergraduate Art Conservation Studies
302-831-8092
vcassman@udel.edu
Description: A passion for material culture is what unites the freshmen admitted as Art History, Anthropology, History or Art Conservation majors, and these students would make up a meaningful Living Learning Community (LLC) at UD.
Incoming freshmen with these four majors are few and distinctive. Incoming material culture freshmen are unique because they have already identified their passion and the LLC will help them make the most of that early and life-changing commitment.
The Material Culture LLC will provide you with a chance to make meaningful connections with your instructors and develop strong friendships with fellow students.
You will have access to special resources, programs and activities, including: seminar; mentoring programs; discussion groups; career development; study groups; and service opportunities. These activities will allow you to connect with the campus community, by integrating classroom learning with the residential experience.
This community will be the place to embrace a sense of adventure, broaden horizons, and make the most of your first year in college.
- Optional for students who are accepted into the following majors: Art History, Anthropology, History or Art Conservation – apply via the My Housing Portal.
- Pre Health Professional LLC (PHP LLC)
- Optional for students in any major who are interested in going into health professions – apply via the My Housing Portal.
Honors students may apply.
Location: Louis L. Redding
Contact: Dr. David Barlow, Director for the Center for Premedical & Health Profession Studies
barlow@udel.edu
302-831-3030
Description: Students who are looking to go into one of the various Health Professions should consider applying to be a part of the University of Delaware’s first-year living learning community for pre-health professions. Located in Louis L. Redding Hall (an all-freshmen building), the Pre-Health Professions Living Learning Community invites student applicants who are interested in pre-med, pre-dental, pre-vet or other health-related professions. - Opportunities available to students living in the PHP LLC include:
- • Living in close proximity to the 25 other freshmen, and one upper-division peer mentor, who are part of the PHP LLC, who have similar career interests and are taking similar courses.
- • Access to extra support from faculty and staff as students pursue career and grad school interests.
- • Access to professionals knowledgeable about standardized tests (e.g. MCAT) and graduate school applications.
- • In-depth and personalized advising from the University’s Center for Pre-Health Professions, in addition to regular academic advising.
- • Programs and events in the residence hall, including exciting speakers from the healthcare industry.
- • Access to extracurricular enrichment, including health-related volunteer experiences.
- Optional for students in any major who are interested in going into health professions – apply via the My Housing Portal.
- U-FIRST LLC
- Optional for first-generation students who are interested in engaged learning (student success social support networks, student leadership, undergraduate research/internships and service learning) – apply via the My Housing Portal. All academic majors and interests are welcomed .(non-honors)
Location: Harrington
Contact: Mr. Matthias Seisay, Program Coordinator, TRIO/McNair Scholars Program
maseisay@udel.edu
302-831-4396
Description: The U-FIRST Living Learning Community is for students who are first in their family to attend a four-year residential college.
The goal of the U-FIRST LLC is to help you take part in forms of engaged social and learning experiences that will help you to benefit, as fully as possible, from your undergraduate experience. A team of committed faculty and staff will assist with fostering your college achievements by mentoring you to prepare to apply and participate in opportunities towards student success; such as, first-generation student services, student organizations, undergraduate research/internships, and service learning.
Community activities and benefits include:- Interactive seminars and activities with TRIO first-generation students and staff
- Membership and participation in the "We're First" Student Organization
- Regular mentoring sessions with an assigned peer mentor
- Exposure to engaged learning opportunities
- Community service project
- Optional for first-generation students who are interested in engaged learning (student success social support networks, student leadership, undergraduate research/internships and service learning) – apply via the My Housing Portal. All academic majors and interests are welcomed .(non-honors)
- World Changers LLC
- Optional for students admitted into the Delaware Innovation Fellows (DIF) program or Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation (ENTI) major. – apply via the My Housing Portal. (non-honors)
Location: Louis L. Redding
Contact: Tricia Monnig, Horn Program in Entrepreneurship
tmonnig@udel.edu
302-831-4619
Description: World Changers LLC, sponsored by the Horn Program in Entrepreneurship, offers first-year students in the Delaware Innovation Fellows (DIF) program or Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation (ENTI) majors the unique opportunity to live, learn and interact with like-minded students from a wide variety of majors who are passionate, creative, innovative and entrepreneurial.
Students will be immersed in a dynamic environment, make valuable connections and strive to create novel solutions to societal, environmental and customer problems.
Students will change the world by putting their ideas for new programs, policies, products, services, organizations and businesses into action.
Participation is voluntary, but highly encouraged. Any student admitted into the DIF or ENTI major is welcome to join World Changers LLC.
- Optional for students admitted into the Delaware Innovation Fellows (DIF) program or Entrepreneurship & Technology Innovation (ENTI) major. – apply via the My Housing Portal. (non-honors)
OPTIONAL COMMUNITIES
The following are optional communities. Students must complete a supplemental application within the First Year Housing Application to be considered for these communities:
Other Housing Opportunity Application
You must specify other housing opportunities in your housing application. Some communities are available only by additional application or registration.
IMPORTANT: A completed Housing Application with Housing Preferences, Supplemental Application or agreement (except Honors), and housing prepayment must be submitted by the application deadline for a student to be considered as a candidate for these communities.
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