Living-Learning Communities

The Fall 2012 Living-Learning Communities' newsletter is now available. Take a moment to browse The World Gazette!

World of Accounting
The World of Accounting is designed for incoming freshmen considering a career in accounting. This community is open to intended accounting majors, including those who have been directly admitted to the School of Business,intended math, and intended actuarial science majors. This Living-Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live with others with similar interests, while being introduced to the academic and social expectations of a career in accounting.

World of Art
The World of Art is designed for incoming freshman who are interested in making, looking at, and learning about art. This Living-Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live with others with similar art-related interests. By being in this World, students are given the opportunity to explore art through lectures, field trips, and individual and group projects.

World of Business
The World of Business is designed for freshmen Business and Accounting intended majors. These students have the unique opportunity to live with other students interested in majoring in business or accounting. Students who have been directly admitted to the School of Business have different programming and are not eligible for this L-LC.

World of Career Discovery
The World of Career Discovery is designed for freshman who are undeclared or open in their academic major. These students have the unique opportunity to live with other students interested in exploring different careers and academic majors.

World of Community Service
The World of Community Service is designed for freshmen students of any major with an interest in community service. Through the World of Community Service, students will learn how their passion for community service will position them for success.

World of Computing and Information
The World of Computing and Information is designed for incoming freshmen who have an interest in Computer Science or Informatics. This Living-Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live with others with similar interests, while being introduced to the academic and social aspects of computing or information.

World of Environmental Sustainability
The World of Environmental Sustainability is designed for Freshmen students from any major interested in learning about the environment. It gives these students the ability to live and learn with other students interested in sustainability-topics like organic food, global warming, renewable energy and urban sprawl. Students will take classes designed to increase their knowledge on these and other sustainability topics.

World of Fitness and Recreation
New for Fall 2012! The World of Fitness and Recreation is designed for incoming freshmen from any area of study, who are interested in living a healthy, active life. Live with others who are interested in balancing academic success, which requires a lot of time being sedentary and indoors, with a healthy, active lifestyle in the World of Fitness and Recreation. Coursework, extracurricular activities, and community service will focus on exercise, recreation, and nutrition.

World of Health Care Careers
Like the World of Pre-Health, the World of Health Care Careers is designed for freshman interested in majoring in the physical sciences, particularly those desiring a pre-health academic career (medical, dental, nursing, veterinary, etc.)

World of Healthy Habits
The World of Healthy Living is designed for freshman students from any major interested in understanding how to create and maintain habits for healthy living in areas including nutrition and eating, exercise, and a life style free from substance abuse/dependence.

World of Jewish Life and Culture
The World of Jewish Life and Culture is a joint venture between Student Engagement, UAlbany Hillel, and the Center for Jewish Studies. This Living-Learning Community is designed for any incoming freshmen who is interested in learning about Jewish Life and Culture, while being introduced to the academic and social expectations of University life.

World of Languages and Cultures
An international Living-Learning Community for students of Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish wish to take their love of language beyond the classroom walls and into their day to day life.

World of Laws and Justice
The World of Laws and Justice is designed for freshmen students interested in a pre-law experience. While there is no specific “pre-law” curriculum, students involved in the “World of Laws and Justice” will participate in both classes and extracurricular activities designed to prepare them for law school and careers in law-related fields.

World of Pre-Health
The World of Pre-Health, like the World of Health Care Careers, is designed for freshman interested in majoring in the physical sciences, particularly those desiring a pre-health academic career (medical, dental, nursing, veterinary, etc.)

World of Writing
The World of Writing is designed for incoming freshmen with a passion for writing. This Living-Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live with others with similar interests, while being introduced to the academic and social aspects of being a writer.

China House
Members of China House live in a cluster in student housing on the uptown campus. Residents are a mix of native speakers and students of Chinese. The holds various activities organized by faculty advisors throughout the year, such as field trips, films, etc.

Japan House
Members of Japan House live in a cluster in student housing on the uptown campus. Residents are a mix of native speakers and students of Japanese. The holds various activities organized by faculty advisors throughout the year, such as field trips, films, etc.

Honors College
The Honors College is a community of developing scholars that includes some of the best teaching professors and some of the brightest and most serious students at UAlbany. The students are earlier in their development as scholars, and the faculty are further along, but all are refining and enhancing their abilities to create knowledge.

Learn more about our Living-Learning Communities:

The Living-Learning Community experience (video)

View the Living-Learning Communities brochure

Benefits and responsibilities of being a member of a Living-Learning Community

Applying to be in a Living-Learning Community