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Living-Learning Communities include a housing component. However, students do not need to live in campus housing to join.
Learning Communities do not include a housing component. No housing activities are included.
Discovery: Writing Exploration Community
Do you want to be a better writer but never get a chance to focus on your own issues of editing and revision? Then this is the community for you! Students in the Writing Exploration LC will take ENGL 299 giving you the time you need to become a better reader of your own writing–including the writing you are going to be doing in your Philosophy class. In Spring semester your community will have the chance to put your enhanced reading and writing skills into practice in a popular general education course, Themes in Multicultural Literature.
Eligibility/Condition: Open to all first-year students. Students planning to major in English will be better served in some of the other communities.
Fall 2023:
- UNIV 150 First-Year Seminar (GE: A3 Critical Thinking or E Lifelong Learning)
- ENGL 299 Writing with Clarity and Power (Support Course: CR/NC)
Spring 2024:
- ENGL 110 Themes in Multicultural Literature for Non-Majors (GE: C2 Humanities)
Islands Community
This collaboration between the Santa Rosa Island Research Station (located in the Channel Islands), the Anthropology program, and Environmental Science & Resource Management program. You will have the opportunity to participate in multiple field trips, including trips out to the Channel Islands. These experiences provide you with unique ways to understand the natural and social processes that shape our world and lives, as well as building essential skills for exploring and expanding your horizons. A peer mentor will be embedded in the UNIV course to help you adjust to college life and find resources you need to succeed.
Eligibility/Condition: Open to All Majors & Undeclared students. Suggested for students studying Anthro and/or ESRM.
Linked Classes and General Education Credits
Fall 2023:
- UNIV 198 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research (GE: A3 Critical Thinking)
- ESRM 100 Introduction to Environmental Science and Resource Management (GE: D Social Science)
Spring 2024:
- ANTH 104 Bioanthropology (GE: B2 Life Science)
- ANTH 104L Bioanthropology Lab (GE: B3 Laboratory Activity)
Understanding Space & Belonging Community
This community will examine how people think about space and identity across disciplines. Students will spend part of the semester examining space as it is depicted in a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. They then will craft a reflective multi-modal project on a space they’re familiar with, either their hometown and/or Ventura County. In this project, they can draw upon information from their linked courses. Both professors will emphasize how different disciplines both analyze and write about the environment and its impact on its inhabitants. Through analysis and writing, first-year students will be able to build a deeper connection to CSUCI – as a physical space, a community and a place of intellectual growth. A peer mentor will be embedded in the ENGL course to help you adjust to college life and find resources you need to succeed.
Eligibility/Condition: Open to all first-year students.
Fall 2023:
- ENGL 102 Strategies of Successful College Writers (GE: Area E Lifelong Learning)
- GEOG 201 Cultural and Historical Geography of the World (GE: Area D Social Sciences)
Spring 2024:
- ENGL 105 Composition and Rhetoric (GE: A-2 Written Communication)
Windows on the World (WOW) Community
This community is focused on international themes in history and today. In the Fall semester you will take two courses together. A World History course that examines world civilizations from both regional and global perspectives and an introductory Philosophy course that will help you learn to use logic in various academic and professional disciplines. Your community will continue the conversations you began in Fall with a Spring World Literature course. The courses in this community introduce students to CI’s interdisciplinary “ways of knowing.” A peer mentor will be embedded in the PHIL course to help you adjust to college life and find resources you need to succeed.
Eligibility/Condition: Open to All Majors. Suggested for students in the History and English majors.
Fall 2023:
- PHIL 130 Logic & Philosophical Reasoning (GE: Area A3 Critical Thinking)
- HIST 212 World Civilization Since 1500 (GE: Area D Social Science)
Spring 2024 options:
- ENGL 210 Themes in World Literature (GE Area C2 Humanities)