First Year Students Jump Start University Experience in New Living-Learning Program
This coming fall the Office of Undergraduate Studies will welcome over one hundred Letters and Sciences first-year students to a new living-learning program, Carillon Communities. Carillon Communities was created to provide a higher percentage of incoming students access to the many benefits of living-learning programs, including: improved academic performance; a broadened social circle that eases the transition to college; and the opportunity to connect deeply with faculty.
The Carillon Communities have been designed with the University of Maryland emphasis on research and innovation. Each community addresses this emphasis via a specific theme:
iGive: Students focus on social innovation. Students learn leadership approaches and entrepreneurial skills necessary to make social impact.
Once and Future Planet: Students focus on scientific research. They learn how to use inquiry, critical thinking, and problem solving to address current world issues. This Community is associated with the UMD FIRE program (a set of first year research initiatives).
Write Now: Students focus on creative thinking and learn how to express innovative and powerful ideas through their writing.
Carillon Communities was specifically developed for those students who are not yet in a major program and are advised by Letters and Sciences. Each community will support students as they prepare for their major program through targeted advising and via participation in a new Introduction to the University course: UNIV100 Design Thinking, that will use a human-centered, design-based approach to think about making the most of the UMD education. Each Carillon Community student will also take two courses with their community. Each course (one in the fall and one in the spring) will fulfill General Education course requirements, helping students meet UMD degree requirements.
Each Carillon Community is led by a UMD faculty member. As a member of Carillon Communities, students begin their University experience learning skills that support research and innovation AND develop an invaluable network of students and faculty. For more information visit carillon.umd.edu.
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