Revised by LLC Oversight Committee

2018-2019 LLC Proposal

Keene State College

Deadline: 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, 2017

1. Name of proposed Living Learning Community. (Consider something catchy but accurate):

2. Names of sponsoring faculty, department(s) or academic program(s), and e-mail addresses:

3. Area of academic interest or thematic focus of the LLC. Is your LLC general interest, majors only, or major preferred?

4. Required single course per semester for first-year students. Please note there are other academic reasons for them to be a building other than the Living & Learning Commons (e.g. access to special technology or studio space). Explain how the courses are linked.

a. Fall 2018 semester course name/number, cap, and instructor:

b. Spring 2019 semester course name/number, cap, and instructor:

5. Identify at least four learning outcomes of these courses, one of which needs to be a College-Wide Learning Outcome:

6. List potential out-of-classroom activities that support the learning outcomes for your LLC. This might include attendance at campus events, field trips, hands-on learning experiences, other high-impact practices, and community-building events (e.g. eating dinner together, group study sessions).

7. Will you arrange for support from a learning assistant, a peer mentor, a student doing an independent study, practicum, or internship with the LLC, etc.

8. Write a description of this LLC (no more than 100 words) that will be used to recruit students into the LLC and for the college to promote the LLCs:

9. Do you want to vet which students will be accepted into your LLC? (This must be done for majors-only LLCs.) This work is done by mid-June, 2018:

10. Mark an X on this line to confirm that your department chair or academic program supervisor approves of this LLC proposal: ___

Proposals are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 via e-mail. Hardcopy proposals will not be accepted. E-mail proposals to: Graham Warder, (Faculty Co-Chair of LLC Oversight Committee)

The LLC Oversight Committee will review proposals and announce which ones are approved by Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 (Reading Day). Approved faculty sponsors of LLCs will be invited to join the LLC Faculty Learning Community, which includes access to a Canvas course of resources for LLC Faculty and other LLC faculty enrichment programming.