If a learning community is a circle, the University College might be thought of as circles within a circle: a group of seminars sharing some common elements while still retaining their independent status as separate courses. The University College, or UC, features a set of foundation-level General Education courses taught by some of American University's most distinguished and capable faculty members, but that's just the beginning. Members of the UC also live together on a residence hall floor, forming a "neighborhood" of students sharing a common interest.
A specially selected upper-level student, a program associate, will live in each UC neighborhood and provide a concrete link between the classroom and out-of-the classroom experiences. A variety of cocurricular experiences will enhance the course material, such as visits to local exhibitions and research facilities, behind-the-scenes tours of prominent Washington institutions, and opportunities to meet with important figures both inside and outside of government-State Department officials, directors of theatre companies, prominent activists, and even members of Congress
and the mayor of Washington.
You'll also enroll in a one-credit Washington Lab course, which will set aside a block of time each week for these cocurricular events and facilitate discussion and dialogue across all the different UC courses.
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