FALL 2011
CGCC Learning Communities (LCs)

Learning communities integrate two or more courses in ways that meaningfully connect the knowledge of each course. At CGCC, learning communities can be comprised of fully integrated classes or linked courses in three basic areas: General Education, Professional Careers, or College Success.

CGCC Learning Communities offer the following benefits:  

• A deeper understanding of course material.
• Pairing courses with your field or career area
• Personal growth among others in your major
• Active participation in one's own learning, class and community    

 

Click to view LC's for business students, nursing students, engineering students, health majors. etc.

Click to view LC's for composition (101 or 102), math, business, ESL, study skills, literature, psychology, history courses, etc.

If you want:  

• Classes that use examples for your career, professional, or special interest, rather than general lessons;
• Courses that often meet two or three graduation requirements in one shot;
• Courses that reduce "busy work", overlap, unnecessary textbooks and repetition because they are designed by partnered professors to "fit" together;
• Classes that are small and full of other students interested in your SPECIFIC field or special interest, taught by professors who will give you deeper understanding of how the content plays a role in your field, the "real world" and the topic of interest;

...you need to consider enrolling in a learning community to complete courses you need anyway for degree and/or transfer, in the most effective teaching approach possible.

Questions?  Email an LC instructor.       

Fall 2011 LC's available: Browse All
Fall 2011 LC's available:(in pdf format)

STEPS TO REGISTER FOR A LEARNING COMMUNITY:

1)  Check out the courses available as a Learning Community. If you need a math, writing, reading, or student success course, or an intro or 201 course in your major, there is definitely an LC available for you.

2)  Once you find a learning community of interest, register for the two (in some LC’s, three) courses as a combination by calling 480-732-7320. Because you must take the combined courses together in the same semester, you need to register for them with the call, rather than standard registration.

  That’s it!