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Learning Communities

Learning Communities help you meet other students, expand your knowledge, and uncover what you want to spend more time studying. It's part of your WCore liberal education experience and is composed of courses in different areas linked by a common theme. You'll take classes with the other students in your cohort, and the faculty teaching the classes will become part of your support team of Griffin Guides. All full-time first-year students are required to register for a Learning Community in the fall semester.


2025–26 Learning Communities

Big Picture, Little Picture: Self and Society Through Drawing and Sociology

Pathways

  • Arts, Performance, and Creativity
  • Society, Politics, and Advocacy
  • Communicating, Influencing, and Messaging

Worlds in Motion: Coding, Creativity, and the Body

Pathways

  • Stories, Cultures, and Ideas
  • Numbers, Data, and Analysis

You Are What You Eat

Pathways

  • Stories, Cultures, and Ideas
  • Communicating, Influencing, and Messaging

A Manual for Your Body

Pathways

  • Lab, Bodies, and Life
  • Society, Politics, and Advocacy

Let's Call Bulls**t

Pathways

  • Numbers, Data, and Analysis
  • Communicating, Influencing, and Messaging

Probability, Reason, and Myths About Human Behavior

Pathways

  • Lab, Bodies, and Life 
  • Numbers, Data, and Analysis

Experiencing Business

Pathways

  • Numbers, Data, and Analysis
  • Communicating, Influencing, and Messaging

Nature of Wellness

Pathways

  • Nature, Adventure, and Exploration

  • Communicating, Influencing, and Messaging