Give Yourself an Advantage in College...Join a Learning Community in Fall 2013
What is a learning community?
A learning community is a group of 20-30 first-year students who
share some common interests, take classes together, live on the same
floor and participate in activities together throughout the year. After
launching its first learning community in August 2010, three in 2011, and six in 2012. FHSU is excited to offer nine unique choices for learning communities in Fall 2013:
- BeFit: BeneFit from Wellness - Designed for any freshman in any major who is interested in health, fitness, and nutrition.
- Everybody's Business - The fundamentals of business are universal. They extend beyond traditional for-profit ventures to charitable & governmental organizations. Business is everywhere. This community is for business majors or anyone with an interest in business or entrepreneurship.
- 4C Innovation - This community will explore key components of innovative environments (communication, creativity, curiosity, collaboration) & work together to develop experiences that will help themselves & others create cultures of innovation.
- Global Justice - This community is designed for justice studies majors, minors, or anyone who wants to pursue a career in law enforcement, corrections, or judicial processes.
- Go Global - Great if you are interested in foreign cultures and traveling the world. Open to all majors.
- Heart and Mind: Philosophizing about the Arts - If you care about music, literature or the visual arts, find a home in this community. Experience works of arts and seek to understand how they relate to a life well-lived. Open to all majors.
- L3: Live. Learn. Lead. - This community is for you if you want to be a leader and make a difference in the world. Open to all majors.
- Opportunity Through Education - This community is designed for education majors or those students with an interest in leadership studies, sociology, gender studies, psychology or nursing.
- PIs: Psych Investigators - Ideal if you plan to major/minor in psychology, but open to any student curious about human behavior.
2013-14 Learning Community Booklet
Why should I join?
No matter how prepared you feel, adjusting to college life can be a
challenge. Away from home. Away from friends. College classes that
demand more time and effort than high school. Joining a learning
community can benefit you in any number of ways:
- Get to know a small group of students and faculty really well, starting with your learning community orientation in August
- Have preferential room placement in McMindes Hall with other learning community members.
- Take several classes with your learning community each semester that focus on your community's theme.
- Make studying easier with ready-made study groups.
- Get to know faculty mentors outside the classroom
- Be motivated by other students who share your interests
- Have fun participating in a wide variety of group, campus, and community activities.
It is also important for you to know that learning community students have a much higher GPA average than students who do not participate in a learning community, and they report greater satisfaction with student-faculty interaction, campus support, and collaborative learning opportunities.
Sound interesting? Need more information? Contact us with questions or to sign up to be part of one of the 2013-14 learning communities.
Please note: Priority deadline to sign up for a 2013 learning community is March 15, 2013. Last year there was a waiting
list, so the earlier you sign up, the better.
