Learning Communities

Learning Communities are fun! In a Learning Community, you will have the same classmates for two or more linked classes. This creates a natural “community” of learners. Many students make strong bonds with their Learning Community peers and go on to take more classes together. 

In addition, most Learning Communities emphasize collaborative, interdisciplinary learning. In-class, students work together in small and large groups and often prepare projects, panels, or papers that show their understanding of the connections between the two fields of study.

Learning Communities embrace and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion! 

• Linked Courses: Most Learning Communities are linked courses with one or more overlapping assignments and a variety of possible course structures. In linked Learning Communities, the same student group takes two separate classes together with one instructor in the classroom at a time.
• Team Taught: In addition, some Learning Communities are team-taught with both faculty in the classroom at all times. These are usually longer class periods because you are taking two classes simultaneously. Like linked Learning Communities, team-taught Learning Communities are 10 credit hours.
• Federated: Finally, in other Learning Communities called “federated learning communities,” small groups of students taking several different courses under the same major will co-enroll in one course together and will explore issues related to their major field of study. For instance, students taking a variety of science classes might enroll in an English 102, a research writing class. This Learning Communities would then address argumentative research writing for science majors.

No, they vary in credit value depending on how many courses are being linked. They could be 7 to 15 quarter credits depending on which courses form the learning community.

Finding Learning Communities in the Course Schedule

• Under "More Filters" choose the attribute "Learning Community"
• Registration will be blocked if a student only has a single course involved in a Learning Community in their cart. Both courses must be in the cart at the same time.

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