• Do you worry about global warming?
• Are you concerned about consumption of gas and other natural resources?

What This Learning Community Is About

Environmental Leadership invites first-year students to live in a residential community and share their class experience in the first year seminar course, Augustine and Culture Seminar (called ACS).  Through specially designed sections of the first year seminar (a year long interdisciplinary class required of all freshmen), students focus on texts from the Ancient to the Modern period which raise critical perspectives on the environment. 

Students in the Environmental Leadership learning community will:

• attend a series of lectures, films, and/or community service focused on environmental concerns.
• be enrolled in one of the designated sections of ACS Seminar associated with the learning community.
• live in Katharine Hall in a co-educational setting with their ACS classmates.
• be taught by ACS professors who are working together through their class material to focus on issues of the environment as they relate to multiple aspects of scientific, engineering, business, politics, activism, and religious thought of the ancient and modern worlds. 

Living Together

Students live together in Katharine Hall so they have the chance to get to know their hall mates and classmates both in and out of the building and classroom.  Because the students are studying the same course material in their respective sections of the first year seminar, students can share ideas whether or not their closest friends are in their same section of the class. 

Getting Connected

Students in the program are encouraged to make connections between their academic pursuits and the choices they make in their day-to-day lives.  In addition, students are expected to participate actively in the life of the St. Katharine Hall community, which includes programs offered by both faculty and the residence life staff.