• Do you walk around with headphones in your ears?
• Do you actively search for new and different bands?
• Have you been involved in your school's theater program, either on or behind the stage?
   

  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 Performers and Artists 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 Performers and Artists opportunities or through involvement on campus.
• connect to faculty in Augustine and Culture Seminar and in Performers and Artists 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.
  • enjoy active participation in the classroom, especially in ACS.
  • attend theatrical and musical performances both on and off campus, as well as discussions afterwards with faculty and students.  Students will also visit art museums.
  • meet other students more easily.
  • 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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