First-Year Residential Learning Communities
Unique Opportunities to Enhance Your Experience
The Office of Residence Life offers several optional and exciting experiences for our first-year students, called Residential Learning Communities (RLCs).
RLCs at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ provide students with a distinctive experience that allows them to live, learn, and belong in and to a community of diverse peers with common interests and goals.
First-Year Residential Learning Communities
First Year Residential Learning Communities bring together students who share a common interest (listed below) and give them the unique opportunity to live together, and work together with a faculty fellow to engage in special events and opportunities. These programs are driven by both faculty and participants, and allow students to propose, plan, and participate in activities they find interesting. Additionally, faculty fellows will plan at least three programs for students to attend per semester.
You may opt into an RLC by noting your interest on your housing questionnaire AND selecting the corresponding First-Year Seminar when choosing courses in your "Forms, Forms, Forms" packets (if applicable).
All RLCs are offered at no additional cost, do not have specific sets of rules, and are optional.
The University also offers an RLC for juniors and seniors. Learn about the Upperclass RLC
Have more questions? Visit our FAQs page or contact Residence Life at res-life@scranton.edu or (570) 941-6226.
Justice and Wellbeing
What is social justice? Students in this community will engage with their community, on and off campus, to expand their awareness of how our natural and built environments can negatively impact an individual's health and well-being. Students will learn about the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ community, how others live life differently than their own, and recognize explicit/implicit barriers that perpetuate social injustices. Following each immersive experience, students will mindfully reflect and contemplate how they can create change, making the world a better place for all individuals.
CHOICE
CHOICE is a supportive environment where students have the freedom to make empowered decisions aligned with their personal values and goals. CHOICE will create an intentional and supportive space with a shared agreement where residents will live a substance free life. By prioritizing substance free living members of this community commit to care for themselves and each other in the spirit of Cura Personalis, care for the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.
THR1VE
This First-Generation Community is a residential experience designed to support first-generation college students to assist them with their transition from high school to the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. (*A first-generation college student is a student whose parent/guardian have not received a four-year U.S. bachelor’s degree.) Students who choose to live in this community will gain an extra layer of support in navigating through the University, increased connections to faculty, staff and first-generation specific resources and a fostered support system of first-generation peers. The goals of increased academic success and enhanced sense of belonging are promoted through a variety of co-curricular experiences with their peers, increased faculty and staff interaction, as well as intentional programming efforts that include academic and social connections.