Residential Colleges Themes
The Residential Colleges address themes that are timely and expose students to many disciplines. It doesn't matter what you plan to major in, you can join the Residential Colleges Community that you find most exciting.
Currently, there are eight communities:
- Arts College
- Discovery College
- Environmental College
- Global College
- Humanities College
- Languages & Cultures College
- Social Justice College
- Society & Technology College
Arts College |
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Foundation Seminars: Discovery of the Expressive Self
Printmaking as Social Commentary
Portraits: The Self & The Other
Masks and Meaning
Activism and the Arts |
Discovery College |
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Foundation Seminars: Revolutions in Science
Shoulders of Giants
How'd they make that? |
Environmental College |
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Foundation Seminars: Environmental Problems in Popular Culture
Christianity & Sustainability
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle |
Global College |
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Foundation Seminars: Global Challenges |
Humanities College |
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Foundation Seminar: The Posthuman Humanities
Through the Looking Glass
6 Ideas that Changed the World |
Languages and Cultures College |
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Foundation Seminars: How We Do Things With Words
Border Crossings |
Social Justice College |
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Foundation Seminars: Genocide: Injustice and Evil
Change the World
Questioning for the Common Good: Critical Thinking and Social Justice |
Society and Technology College |
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Foundation Seminar: Technology Equals Progress The Grand Challenges The Future is Now |
Perform, compose, represent and build art. Explore the connection between creativity and culture. Reflect on your vision of the world. Celebrate the imagination. Grow as an artist and human being and affirm the connection between life and art.
Learn how science has changed the world. Participate in hands-on activities. Visit places where breakthroughs have occurred. Appreciate science through the lenses of other disciplines, including history, philosophy and education.
Explore the ecological impact of human activities. Learn about successes in sustainable development. Raise awareness about environmental issues. Celebrate the wonder of the natural world. Study the complex scientific, social, political and ethical dimensions of environmental issues.
Explore issues related to globalization and culture in this interconnected age. Learn how the modern world came to be and understand its successes and problems. Learn how to initiate change. Challenge your beliefs and look beyond the conventional.
Explore the relationship between abstract ideas and life as we live it through a variety of courses that relate the classical tradition to the modern world; the sacred to the political; and the artistic to the technological. Think across the boundaries between visual, art, science, literature, philosophy, popular culture, and music.
Learn how different cultures can communicate with each other. Understand how language shapes our perceptions of the world. Get introduced to the cultures of non-English-speaking countries. Discuss topics like daily life, the arts, society, politics, religion, pop culture and commerce.
Understand the perspectives of marginalized populations. Critically and compassionately examine issues of social justice. Examine topics including poverty, inequality, health care, immigration, LGBT issues and civil rights. Learn about grassroots activism. Advocate for social justice in the community.
Explore the complex, two-way relationship between technology and society. Learn how people - as individuals and as members of groups, organizations, and society as a whole - influence the development of science and technology as well as the consequences of technology for family, work, health and community. Read and reflect about topics that are not only interesting to talk about with friends but - given the importance of technology to all walks of life these days - could also put you on a promising career path that may not directly involve science or engineering.
