Living Learning Communities

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The BC F1RST Living Learning Community is an inclusive community dedicated to supporting first-year, first-generation, and low-income students in their transition to college. BC F1RST有限责任公司与Learning to Learn办公室合作，提供各种各样的课程, activities, 以及帮助会员与第一代同胞联系的服务, first-year college students, staff, faculty, and administrators. 鼓励参加者发展支援网络，以促进个人发展, pursue academic excellence, and enhance their collegiate experience. Through group discussions on various topics, 学生将获得更多的知识和信心，这将使他们在BC取得成功. Students who choose the BC F1RST LLC are required to enroll in the Applications of Learning Theory (UNAS 1005) course during the Fall semester. The Applications of Learning Theory course will assist with the academic and intellectual transition to BC and will help students build confidence in their academic abilities.

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The Fr. Rutilio Grande, S.J., Intercultural Experience Living Learning Community provides an opportunity for incoming first year students from diverse backgrounds to reflect on their personal identities and to connect with other individuals in the community who may have shared or similar identities or lived experiences. GIE focuses on diversity in all forms including race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical ability, religion, and more. Students in this community will live in an inclusive community dedicated to promoting the understanding of difference and celebrating diversity. Through group discussions on multiculturalism, diversity, social justice, and exploration of identity, students will gain an expanded worldview, thus creating a safe, welcoming, and fun living space for all.

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The Fr. Rutilio Grande, S.J., Intercultural Experience Living Learning Community for sophomores is a diverse community of students who are dedicated to creating an environment where diversity is celebrated and hope to become agents of social change. 这个社区是为致力于领导力发展的学生而设的, 他们认为领导力是一个促进社会变革的合作过程. 学生们将进一步发展自己的领导能力, explore their passions, 并运用知识对他们的社区产生积极影响.

Open to sophomore students only.

Students who participate in GIE their first year are not guaranteed placement in GIE 2.0.

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The Healthy Living Community (HLC) aims to provide students an opportunity to define what a healthy lifestyle entails for them individually and as a community. HLC还为学生提供在无酒精环境中生活的机会, tobacco and other harmful substances. Residents who live in a Healthy Living Community have access to a variety of social programming and unique partnership with the Center for Student Wellness. All students living in HLC are required to complete a Be Well Health Coaching session through the Center for Student Wellness. 这个社区鼓励成员保持一种有助于学业成功的生活方式, personal development, well-being, and a sense of community. Residents work to promote healthy choices within the hall and throughout the University through a variety of programs.

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The Justice & the Common Good Living Learning Community is a residential community for incoming first-year MCAS students who would like to deepen their interests in social justice, cultural diversity, and the common good. Students in the JCG LLC gain new tools for reflecting on and leading social transformation in pursuit of justice, equity, and universal flourishing. 
The JCG LLC Supplemental Application can be found here.

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The Kostka Women’s Experience Living Learning Community is a community where  residents participate in conversations around women’s issues, empowering women, and women’s leadership. The Kostka Women's Experience LLC通过晚餐和讨论系列提供参与, retreat, 以及在领导岗位上与女性交流的机会.  Through the Kostka Women's Experience, 社区成员加深了他们对个人健康的承诺, explore and develop their identity, and engage in meaningful conversations.

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The Perspectives Living Learning Community is an academic initiative for first year students that possesses a distinct bond between an academic course and a residential living community. Students who live in this community are afforded the opportunity to participate in specialized programming which creates links with the Perspectives curriculum, creates deeper relationships between students, faculty, and administrators, and develops a strong peer cohort. 这个项目的目标是促进真正的友谊的发展，这种友谊既包括智力上的，也包括社交上的. 这种共同的纽带和社会互动增加了学习注意力和与同学的联系.

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The Seacole Scholars program is a living learning community for first-year nursing students that are interested and committed to increasing the diversity of the nursing profession. Students of color, first-generation to college students, 我们强烈鼓励蒙特塞拉特学生申请Seacole学者项目. 学者将被要求参加一门以多样性为重点的1学分课程, equity, and inclusion. In addition to the 1-credit Seacole Scholars Seminar, Seacole学者还将注册透视和所需的护理课程(解剖学和生理学I), life science chemistry, and nursing first-year seminar). 这个特别的观点部分将特别关注关于痛苦主题的问题和主张, care-giving, responsibility for self and for others, 以及它们与上帝存在问题和现代科学兴起的关系, 并将完成哲学和神学的核心要求. 

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The Shaw Leadership Program is a unique Living Learning Community run through the Office of Residential Life. Each summer, 我们将从竞争激烈的申请者中选出20名积极进取的一年级新生 "Shaw Class" for that graduating class. During the first year in the program, students reside in the Shaw House, attend monthly leadership seminars, participate in community service opportunities, 并运用他们所学的技能来创建和完成一个领导力项目. In the monthly seminars, 向学生介绍肖领导模式，该模式基于三个原则:领导教育, service, and community engagement.