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FIRST-YEAR LEARNING COMMUNITIES AT SHSU
How will you make college friends? What strategies will help you succeed in college classes? How can you start exploring your passions in your very first year of college? Will being at SHSU feel like home?
The First-Year Learning Communities (FLCs) can help you answer all of these questions with confidence. Alearning communityissimplyagroupofstudentswith thesame interests who take classes together. Each semester, you’ll be given a schedule of two or three classes that you will take with your learning community group or cohort.
WHY JOIN AN FLC?
■ Make college friends fast ■ Develop valuable study groups ■ Build a support network ■ Explore your interests
LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
■ Bearkat Learning Community ■ CHSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) Living Learning Community ■ Criminal Justice Living Learning Community ■ Education Living Learning Community ■ First Generation Living Learning Community ■ Health Sciences (COHS) Living Learning Community ■ Pre-Med Living Learning Community ■ Pre-Nursing Living Learning Community
LEARNING COMMUNITIES
■ Bearkat Learning Community ■ Criminal Justice Learning Community ■ Pre-Law Learning Community ■ STEM Learning Community
QUICK FACTS
■ FLCs are a group of students who take classes together.
■ Students in a learning community attend 2-3 of the same classes together each semester.
■ All learning community students take UNIV 1301 in the fall semester.
■ In living learning communities, studentsarerequired tolivetogether in the same residence hall.
