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Learning Communities

A Learning Community is composed of courses in different areas linked by a common theme. You will take classes with the other students in your cohort, and the faculty teaching the classes become your academic advisors. All full-time first-year students are required to register for a Learning Community in the fall semester. Completing a Learning Community is also a requirement of the WCore liberal education program.


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