Living Learning Communities (LLCs) and Themed Living Communities (TLCs) bring together first-year students who share interests, goals, and experiences. You’ll live near people you already have something in common with – and have opportunities throughout the year to connect, explore, and get involved.
Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) and Themed Living Communities (TLCs) provide an easier way for students to transition academically and socially into the Drury’s campus. LLCs are organized around themes and coincide with an academic class. All LLC themes will be the same theme of your FUSE 101 course. Students who are accepted into an LLC will attend class together and live on the same wing in their Residence Hall.
Themed Living Communities (TLCs) are not linked to an academic class but are interest based and linked to an established student organization. Students will have the opportunity to live on the same wing with a cohort of students with similar interests and be a part of an organization that offers yearlong programing. Students in the TLCs will be required to officially join the coinciding student organization and be an active member.
A shared FUSE 101 course. A shared residence hall wing. All LLCs are in Sunderland.
Examine humanity and culture through art, music, theatre, and literature. Extracurricular activities include attending art shows, theatre productions, and concerts.
Explore popular music and rock and roll history to cultivate essential intellectual skills like reading, writing, and critical thinking for academic and personal success.
In addition to teaching students about the many unique places you can visit as a future world traveler, this class will give you the skills and confidence to travel throughout your lives as well as the ability to appreciate travel as one of greatest educational experiences in life.
In The Developing Healthcare Professional, we explore the healthcare professions in American culture. We will examine the practicalities on getting admitted to a professional healthcare school in this day and age, as well as multiple explorations into the core competencies that are held in regard in the healthcare field such as commitment to learning and growth, empathy and compassion, diligence, ingenuity, and more.
Shared interests and active membership in a student organization. No linked class.
Sunderland Hall is home to many of Drury’s LLCs and TLCs and is the only first-year residence hall where students are guaranteed a private bedroom.
If you have questions, please contact housing@drury.edu.
Nationally recognized research has consistently shown a correlation between social wellness and academic performance. Students who feel comfortable with their peers are more likely to participate in class, have a higher rate of satisfaction with their class and are more likely to get involved in campus life.
LLCs and TLCs exemplify our commitment to creating an intimate learning experience and we wish that we could enroll all students in the program. However, due to size restrictions, LLCs/TLCs participants are selected through an application process and are capped at 15-20 students per section. Students are not selected on a first-come first-selected basis. Drury selects students based solely on the quality of the applications and short essay answers received. Please read below for a list of this year’s LLC/TLC themes and the online application.
**Please note that themes will be offered based on student interest.
Living Learning Communities encourage strong mentoring relationships between faculty/staff and students, as well as the value of developing communities of shared purpose. Nationally, research has consistently shown benefits of the interaction in Living Learning Communities and Themed Living Communities to include: