• Do you live a health-conscious lifestyle?
• Do you believe you are in control of your health?
• Do you want to have a healthy Villanova experience?

What This Learning Community Is About

Students will develop their sense of citizenship and personal responsibility with a special focus on caring for the development of the whole person.  Students in HEALTHY LIVING will:

• take a one-credit workshop that meets weekly in the residence hall.
  • This workshop-style course stresses an active approach to living in which students are exposed to all aspects of health: social, physical, intellectual, cultural, emotional, and spiritual. 
  • Students will study and apply skills of health-conscious living and will work with professionals on campus, including personal trainers, nutritionists, psychologists, fitness instructors, financial advisors, safety specialists, and many more! 
  • The one-credit class will be taught by professional staff members from the Office of Health Promotion and runs from August through early March.  
• be housed together in Katharine Hall on South campus with other members of the community.
• participate in a specially designed section of the first year student seminar course Augustine and Culture Seminar (called ACS) with other residents in your hall.
• gain more because students and faculty interact in and out of class, creating a stronger community for the first year students.

Students selected to participate will automatically be enrolled in a designated section of the first year seminar course, ACS, and in the Healthy Living one-credit workshop (listed as VEXP).  The one-credit course is over and above the regular courseload and is spread out from the beginning of the school year through early March.  It is designed not to interfere with other academic requirements and is open to students from all four colleges:  Liberal Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Nursing.