academic vs. living learning communities?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pittsburgh
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<p>I would like to be in the health sciences living learning community, but I just received information in the mail about academic learning communities. I am slightly confused as to how they differ, and if I can be in the living learning community and also do an academic learning community? Is an academic learning community just a group of students taking the same courses? Is there an advantage to doing an academic learning community? </p>

<p>Thanks for your help!</p>

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<p>They are completely separate programs - you can do either, both or none. See Pitt Peer Advisor’s post on this thread for advantages:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pittsburgh/1146737-academic-learning-communities.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pittsburgh/1146737-academic-learning-communities.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Hi there! In case the post from “Academic Learning Communities” isn’t as much information as you would like, here are the links to the Living Learning Communities and to the Academic Learning Communities so that you can compare the two directly. The Academic Learning Community page includes a “Frequently Asked Question” section which contrasts the two and reveals that you could participate in both communities if you so choose!</p>

<p>Here are the websites:
Living Learning Communities- [Living</a> Learning Communities | Student Affairs Home](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu/reslifellc]Living”>http://www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu/reslifellc)
Academic Learning Communities- [Academic</a> Learning Community Information and FAQs](<a href=“http://www.as.pitt.edu/undergraduate/offices/freshman-programs/lc/#a]Academic”>http://www.as.pitt.edu/undergraduate/offices/freshman-programs/lc/#a) </p>

<p>The main difference is that participants of Living Learning Communities live together in residence halls with students who share similar career goals and interests and participants of Academic Learning Communities are students who take a cluster of courses together along a theme (i.e. health fields, education, foreign languages). Really, you can’t make a bad choice, just figure out which one is best for you. </p>

<p>Hail to Pitt!</p>