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Aspiring teachers at UMBC (Harbor Hall)
Aspiring Teachers at UMBC is an interactive community designed for students who want to become teachers. Residents of this floor will explore teaching as a profession and cultivate the courage to become leaders among their peers through discussion forums on teaching and learning, enrichment activities in the arts and sciences, social gatherings, community services and development of an ePortfolio.
We encourage all academic majors interested in becoming teachers to apply. Your application to AT@umbc confirms your commitment to participate in floor activities.
We look forward to collaborating on this dynamic community of diverse individuals who share the passion for and commitment to education!
Center
for Women and Information Technology Living & Learning Community (Erickson First West)
The Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) Scholars Program provides an opportunity for women and men majoring in an IT or engineering discipline to bond with other students in the same field and create lasting support networks. The CWIT residence hall floor is intended to promote academic excellence, peer mentoring, career exploration, leadership opportunities, and social support for students in IT and engineering with a special emphasis on the needs of women who may feel isolated due to their low enrollment in such programs nationwide. CWIT Scholars are given priority; however, all students interested in IT and engineering majors are encouraged to apply.
Exploratory Majors (Patapsco First South) back to top
Many students enter college as exploratory learners. These students begin their college careers as undeclared majors because it is difficult to narrow their talents and interests into one primary course of study. This living learning community offers students new to UMBC multiple venues through which to connect with each other, current UMBC students, faculty, staff, and the university while exploring the variety of majors offered at UMBC.
Students living on this floor are required to enroll in a First Year experience course that might include a First-Year Seminar (FYS), which is a three credit academic course, an Introduction to an Honors University Seminar (IHU), which is a 1-credit seminar attached to a core course, or a group of linked courses composed of required courses that share common themes. Whenever possible, we will work to ensure that the course is one in which several students living on the floor are registered.
In addition to the course, community members are expected to attend and participate in a variety of programs focusing on making a successful transition to the University. The Office of Undergraduate Education, Career Services, and the Office of Academic and Pre-Professional Advising collaborate to provide programs on topics ranging from career decision making, skills identification, and managing change to faculty panels and outside speakers who will facilitate discussions with students on the floor. This community is open to students who are new to UMBC and have not yet decided on a major.
Honors College Living Learning Community (Susquehanna First South) back to top
The Honors College Living-Learning Community offers the opportunity for members of the Honors College to continue their collaborative learning experiences in a relaxed residential setting. Students are able to pursue a range of academic and social activities with other members of the Honors College community. At the same time, they will develop strong friendships through common goals, classes, conversation, and fun.
Humanities Floor (Harbor Second East) back to top
This floor is known to offer some of the best conversation on campus! The Humanities Floor offers those interested in the humanities the opportunity to share their passion for culture, language, history, philosophy, and literature with other students in the community. This living community provides opportunities to explore the humanities through lectures, field trips, dinners, faculty talks, and film showings, to name a few of our favorite events. Students majoring/minoring in Africana studies, American studies, ancient studies, English, history, interdisciplinary studies, modern languages and linguistics, gender and women’s studies, cultural anthropology and philosophy often take part in this community, but students from all departments are strongly are encouraged to apply! A variety of perspectives is what we’re after. Accepting residence on the floor indicates your willingness to attend various humanities lectures throughout the year, as well as contributing to the organization of floor activities.
Intercultural Living Exchange (Harbor Second South)* back to top
The Intercultural Living Exchange (ILE) is a for-credit language immersion and intercultural communication program that offers one credit per semester for completion of ILE activities. Participating students interact with international student mentors (native speakers of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish) who organize cultural and social activities, including, holiday celebrations, movie nights, international potlucks, excursions to plays, museums, and festivals. ILE students earn an additional academic credit by completing a service learning project related to their target language and culture.
Shriver Living Learning Center (Erickson Second West) back to top
The Shriver Living Learning Center (SLLC) is an active and social living community in Erickson Hall. The purpose of the SLLC is to encourage service and civic engagement within the UMBC campus community. Throughout the year, students will improve the UMBC community and the Greater Baltimore area through various service activities. Students commit to serving in the community for 3-5 hours each week at the service-learning placement of their choice. During the fall semester, students participate in a one-credit course exploring Civic Engagement, which enables them to reflect upon their service experiences. In the spring semester students may take a three-credit service-learning course through Sociology, Education, American Studies or other disciplines. For more information about SLLC contact Michele Wolff at 410.455.2493 or visit www.shrivercenter.org/service
Visual and Performing Arts Floor (Harbor Second North) back to top
The Visual and Performing Arts Living-Learning Community helps students realize their potential as artists. Here students share ideas and learn new skills in a supportive environment of dancers, actors, theatre technicians and designers, musicians, and visual artists. Programs in the community will offer guest speakers, activities, and group discussions, all focused on the arts. The floor is known for the most passionate, impromptu late-night conversations on campus and is the home of the Linehan Artist Scholar Program.
Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (Harbor First North)
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The Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) program at UMBC incorporates a learning community that promotes academic excellence, leadership development, career exploration and civic engagement on women’s issues. The program achieves these goals through three components; 1) an academic curriculum of courses focused on women’s diverse roles that involve several opportunities for applied learning, including career-related internships, which results in a gender and women’s studies major, minor or certificate; 2) co-curricular program of lectures, workshops, films, cultural events, and opportunities for activism that integrate classroom learning with out-of-classroom activities and 3) a student-led organization residing in the WILL living learning community through which students will specifically cultivate skills for living and working with people of diverse backgrounds and opinions.
- Application
- For more information about the WILL program, please contact the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at 410-455-2001 or wmstudies@umbc.edu.
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