• Are you intrigued by the growing cultural and economic interdependence of your world?
• Do you envision yourself becoming knowledgeable in another language and studying abroad?

What This Learning Community Is About

Global Community 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 a wide spectrum of Western and Eastern texts from the Ancient to the Modern period which will increase the students' global understanding. 

Students in the Global Community will:

• attend a series of lectures, film, and/or community service focused on international issues.
• be offered an optional study abroad program for the following academic year.
• be enrolled in one of the designated sections of the first year seminar (ACS) associated with the learning community.
• live in Katharine Hall in a co-educational setting with their ACS classmates.

Professors involved with the Global Community

The ACS professors participating in Global work together through their class material to focus on the issue of global community as it relates to a wide spectrum of Western and Eastern texts from the Ancient to the Modern worlds.  Students committed to learning a second (or third) language and interested in working in the international community will be especially interested in living in this learning community.

Living Together

Students live together in the 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 ACS, 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 Katharine Hall community, which includes programs offered by both faculty and the residence life staff.