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Lehigh Carbon Community College Main is located on a beautiful 153-acre campus in Schnecksville, PA.
About LCCC
Nov. 5, 2007
At Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC), our vision is to helpstudents achieve academic excellence! A successful way of doing this isthrough student participation in a Learning Community. Our definitionof a Learning Community is simple: bringing innovative and caringfaculty, students, and curriculum together to promote a deeper level oflearning.
This is accomplished through various models of Learning Communities.The primary model of Learning Communities is the linking of two coursesand two instructors with the same group of students around aninterdisciplinary theme. For example, English 106/College English II islinked with Psychology 243/Abnormal Psychology, forming the LearningCommunity "Madness and Metaphors: Psychology in Literature." The samestudents enroll in both courses in which the instructors collaborate onmaterial so that students are reading and composing literary works thatrelate to the concepts being studied in Abnormal Psychology. Thelinking of courses can occur between two courses within a major, withgeneral elective courses, or a combination of both.
Learning Communities are available for first-year students, studentswho need further preparation in order to meet the demands of collegecoursework, transfer students beginning or continuing their coursework,and high-achieving honors students who want challenging academicopportunities before transferring to colleges and universities anywhere.
The primary goals of Learning Communities are as follows:
- to increase student-student interaction;
- to increase student-faculty interaction;
- to increase student learning and academic achievement;
- to increase student motivation, engagement, and retention;
- to increase student critical thinking, reading, writing, and verbal expression skills;
- to increase student technological skills; and
- to connect students with educational support resources.
LCCC will offer the following Learning Communities in spring 2008
At LCCC's Donley Center, 718 Hamilton St., Allentown:
"Crime and its Relation to Age--From Juvenile to Adult"
CJA 118 - Juvenile Delinquency/J.Rowlands Mon. & Wed. 12:45-2:06 p.m.
SOC 250 - Criminology/J. Vlot Mon. & Wed. 2:20-3:41 p.m.
A connection will be made between crime and age, discussing severalfactors, such as crime reporting and victimization, criminal theory,and a focus on the justice system and pertinent issues relative tocrime and criminal behavior.
"Psychology with Critical Reading Strategies"
RSS 100 - Critical Reading/M. Strein Tues. & Thurs. 8-9:21 a.m.
PSY 140 - Introduction to Psychology/A. Loiacono Tues. & Thurs. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
This learning community will provide students the critical readingstrategies needed to successfully complete the high-content readingrequired in a psychology course.
Study-skills strategies will also be applied to the material for test-taking, note-taking, journal writing, and research skills.
At Main Campus, Route 309, Schnecksville:
"Deep Dive"
DMP 230 - Audio and Video Production Integration/W. Barron Thurs. 11:10 a.m.-2:06 p.m.
IDS 105 - Team Building/R. Warner Tues. & Thurs. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
With the help of the model called the "Deep Dive," students willdevelop three or four proposed scripts for the completed project, whichis to produce three or four motivational videos modeled upon the "FishProgram" or "Who Moved My Cheese?" The students will learn, practice,and apply thinking and problem solving skills necessary to produce atangible product or products that can be used by business and industryin the Greater Lehigh Valley.
"English and Psychology"
ENG 100 - Fundamentals of Writing/K. Mayberry Mon. & Wed. 12:45-2:06 p.m.
PSY 140 - Introduction to Psychology/R. Musselman Mon. & Wed. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
This learning community offers students who need English 100 theopportunity to complete that course while working on a generaleducation elective, Psychology 140. Instructors will work oncollaborative efforts for the students to read and write in anintegrated manner that will help these students succeed.
"Stories from the Sandbox"
ENG 106 - College English II/J. Gerken Mon. & Wed. 11:10 a.m.-12:31 p.m.
PSY 242 - Child Development/R. Musselman Mon. & Wed. 12:45-2:06 p.m.
The objective for this learning community is to expose students todiverse issues of child development through reading literature. Thiswill allow students to identify with characters and situationsportrayed in the literature. It will also help students to developcritical thinking skills in terms of the implicit theoreticalperspectives of the literary works.
"Fictional History"
ENG 230 - Contemporary Fiction/J. Sponsler Mon. & Wed. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
HIS 225 - U.S. History Since 1945/C. Hyatt Mon. & Wed. 11:10 a.m.-12:31 p.m.
The objective of this learning community is to gain a deeperunderstanding of the American experience through a concurrent study ofAmerican literature and history. Rich historical narratives are to befound in literature, and deeper understanding of literary writing isgained through understanding historical context.
"Life: Let's Talk!"
BIO 101 - Introductory Biology/T. Heisey Mon. & Wed. 2:20-3:41 p.m.
CMN 112 - Professional Presentations/D. Burnside Wed. 11:10 a.m.-2:06 p.m.
In this learning community, students will study core concepts inbiology and effective communications strategies. They will thenintegrate these two fields of study by preparing a variety ofprofessional presentations in which effective communications, research,and critical thinking skills are employed. Students will benefit in twoways: students will take an active role in the learning of biology bycreating accurate and organized class presentations about relevantbiological topics, and by preparing and delivering professionalpresentations, students will develop skills in research, organization,listening, and verbal communications.
"Declarations of Independence"
ENG 106 - College English II/J. Myskowski Tues. & Thurs. 11:10 a.m.-12:31 p.m.
PSC 230 - American Federal Government/J. Duke Tues. & Thurs. 12:45-2:06 p.m.
This learning community will focus on how our federal government andthe doctrines we live by as American citizens impact the life of theindividual. By analyzing government documents, such as the Constitutionand multiple genres of literature, such as short stories, novels, andpoetry, students will examine how legal, political, social, andeconomic institutions have evolved to improve the lives of Americansthroughout our short history, sometimes at the cost of others.
"Global Inequalities"
**Honors Option Only
MAT 150 - Intro to Probability and Statistics/N. Schillow Mon. & Wed. 12:45-2:06 p.m.
SOC 151 - Modern Social Problems/C. Bowditch Tues. & Thurs. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
This Honors Learning Community is part of the college's efforts toexpand the Honors Program. The sociology course will investigate aseries of social problems that highlight global inequalities in thedistribution of resources, knowledge, and power. The mathematics coursewill use data relevant to the study of those problems to teach coursetopics. Students will be expected to write a research paper for thesociology course that uses quantitative data.
"Concepts and Representations of Self in/and Society"
**Honors Scholars Only
ENG 106 - College English II/J. Sponsler Mon. & Wed. 2:20-3:41 p.m.
SOC 150 - Introduction to Sociology/C. Bowditch To Be Announced
The purpose for forming this learning community is to give LCCCHonors Scholars a unique learning experience that challenges andengages them. Linking the courses provides students with both greateropportunities and a wider variety of perspectives to explore. Thesecourses will be integrated through a number of themes, such as therelationship of the individual to society, the impact of individualismand materialism in American culture, and the persistence of race,class, and gender inequalities in American society. Through diverseranges of literatures, interdisciplinary issues such as problems ofrepresentation, mediation, and adaptation will be explored in relationto the themes mentioned above.
At Morgan Center, 234 High St., Tamaqua:
"Act Up, Speak Out!"
ENG 220 - Introduction to Drama/M. Turrano Mon. & Wed. 9:35-10:56 a.m.
ENG 111 - Speech/J. Myskowski Mon. & Wed. 11:10 a.m.-12:31 p.m.
This Morgan Center Learning Community will introduce students to thefundamentals of public speaking while studying the genre of drama.Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of severalplaywrights and plays of different periods and styles while learning tospeak in formal and informal speaking situations and while employing avariety of delivery methods, including memorized, extemporaneous, andimpromptu. These linked courses will introduce students to the genre ofdrama from its origins to the present while they construct and performspeeches and soliloquies of their own creation. Additionally, studentswill become critical readers and viewers of drama that is filmed orperformed live.
To learn more about Learning Communities at LCCC, phone Academic Advising at 610-799-1137; go to www.lccc.edu,Quick Links, then Learning Communities; or contact Larissa Verta,Director of Learning Communities and Faculty Development, at lverta@lccc.edu or 610-799-1087.
"LCCC Learning Communities: Start here, learn together, go anywhere!"
