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Students in this learning community not only share a common class experience
in Augustine and Culture Villanova Seminar (ACS), but also take a one-credit Leadership
class that meets about once a week with students from your ACS class.
The Leadership class is structured like a workshop and includes short
reading and writing assignments and experiential group projects.
Students discuss and explore effective leadership styles and skills that
will contribute to the student's development and growth in and out of
the classroom. The class meets from late August through early March.
Students in our commuter learning
community form connections and often close friendships with students sharing the experience
of "going away to college" while still living at home. Students learn
together and form a community through their shared coursework complemented
by co-curricular programs.
What Is This Learning Community About? 
The Leadership Experience learning community for commuting students offers first year students
who commute to college the opportunity to:
- form a close community inside and outside of the classroom that will survive
well past your first year of college.
- explore a topic that is of common interest to you.
- gain valuable tools that help you connect to Villanova, whether through
leadership opportunities or through involvement on campus.
- connect to faculty in
Augustine
and Culture Seminar and in Leadership who will nurture and guide
you through your first year and beyond.
What's Involved?
Students in this program:
- take Augustine and
Culture Seminar together, which is a 3-credit class all freshmen
take each semester of their first year; in the Fall, the ACS course is
called Traditions in Conversation and in the Spring it is called Modernity
and its Discontents.
- take a one-credit Leadership class that meets about once a week with
students from your ACS class focusing on the skills needed
for personal effectiveness and leadership.
- enjoy active participation in the classroom, especially in ACS.
- meet other students more easily.
- discuss first year concerns while developing skills and
interests.
- build a community that encourages and supports students in
your personal, moral and intellectual development.
All commuters are strongly encouraged to
be part of this program.
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