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Fall Learning Communities

MCC is offering a variety of learning communities this fall semester, so please consider enrolling in one or recommending them to your students. Some of these learning communities offer reading support with REA 100, Reading and Thinking in the Disciplines, some are for first semester students taking TRS courses, and some target specific programs and populations, such as Criminal Justice and Education majors and ESOL students. These learning communities are being offered on both campuses during both the day and evening, and one includes an online COS 101. A flyer describing each of these learning communities, along with directions on how to enroll, is attached.

Below are a few reasons why one might want to consider enrolling in a learning community:

  • Although the LC consists of two or more classes, it will feel like one course, because the classes are so carefully integrated.
  • In many cases, one class will be designed to support the other. For example, REA 100 Reading and Thinking in Psychology will focus on the reading required in PSY 101, and on the study skills and habits of mind that students need to succeed in PSY 101.
  • Students will often be using the same textbook in both classes.
  • Students will be with some of the same people in two different classes, so they can more easily work together, become study partners, friends, etc.
  • Lots of studies have shown that students who enroll in learning communities stick with college longer and are more successful.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Matt Fox at 292-3138 (mfox@monroecc.edu) or Susan Belair at 292-3240 (sbelair@monroecc.edu). Thanks very much!

Attached Files:
Learning Communities Fall 2018.pdf

Fox, Matthew
ESOL/TRS
06/11/2018