Determining which learning community is best for you depends on several things, including your class year, your interests, and your academic program.  Faculty involvement with your education is a key ingredient in all of SU’s learning communities. Depending on the community you choose, you may have a faculty member on your floor helping you with a research paper or participating in a discussion, take courses taught in your residence hall classroom, discuss ideas across classes with other students, or go on a fun and challenging leadership development retreat with other students and faculty. Through these activities, and others like them, you will enhance your learning and form lifelong friendships with students from many diverse backgrounds who share similar interests and goals.

 Here are a few quick steps to discover more about specific learning communities and help you narrow down the options.

1. Find out more about the mission and goals of the Syracuse University learning community program.
   
   
2. Learn the lingo: residential LCs, non-residential LCs, interest housing.
   
   
3. Take the learning community quiz (adapted from Indiana University's Connect with Learning Communities at IU, Spring 2004).
   
   
4. Review the different learning community choices to learn more about your options and the specific requirements (you can also search for a specific learning community).  Note:  All locations are subject to change!
   
   
5. Call or email us with questions.  You may also want to speak with an academic advisor.
   
   
6. Thinking about a roommate request?  Talk to your roommate about a residential learning community/interest housing option.
   
   
7. Sign up!

 That’s all there is to it!