<p>Does anyone have any input or know anything about the program? I received an application for it and I’m not quite sure about it.</p>
<p>Anyone have some input?</p>
<p>i also got that to i would watch the video that came with it its pretty much a house you live in on campus and its a study society</p>
<p>It’s like a liberal arts honors program. Students (and some faculty) live and go to classes in a living/learning community. </p>
<p>[Blount</a> Undergraduate Initiative](<a href=“http://www.as.ua.edu/blount/]Blount”>The Blount Scholars Program)</p>
<p>This is the living/learning building</p>
<p>[Blount</a> Undergraduate Initiative Living Learning Center - The University of Alabama](<a href=“Page Not Found | The University of Alabama”>Page Not Found | The University of Alabama)</p>
<p>I think the residential part is for freshmen only…but it’s a 4 year program…</p>
<p>Description of the Blount Program</p>
<p>The program has several components:</p>
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<li>1. This is a four-year program which includes a freshman residential year in which students will reside and take special classes in what we call “a living - learning environment.” 2. Two Academic Houses, Oliver-Barnard and Tuomey Halls, which are located on the Quadrangle and physically in the center of the University, will serve as the focal point for the sophomore, junior, and senior years.</li>
<li>3. Students in the Initiative major in the same subject areas as all University students. However, they have a special curriculum that includes seminars, discussion groups, special presentations, and activities that will engage them in an integrated approach to learning.</li>
<li>4. The essence of the program is the establishment of an active learning partnership between teacher and student.</li>
</ol>
<p>A key aspect of this program is living in a community of scholars. Freshmen entering the program will live and take Initiative Seminars in the Blount Living-Learing Center. Sophomores and upperclass Initiative students may choose to live off campus or in residence halls but their academic “home” on campus will be the Blount Academic Houses, Oliver-Barnard and Toumey Halls, on the main Quadrangle.</p>
<p>The Blount Living-Learning Center combines residential and learning facilities and is the heart of the Blount Initiative freshmen experience. Twelve Blount Fellows appointed from the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences teach the foundation course and spend extended periods of time in the Living-Learning Center working and talking with students. Several graduate students are named as Junior Fellows each year and assist in teaching the foundation course. Perhaps more importantly, they live in the Living-Learning Center, serving as mentors and role models for the entering students.*</p>
<p>It also can be a minor…</p>
<p>[The</a> Blount Minor](<a href=“http://www.as.ua.edu/blount/minor.html]The”>http://www.as.ua.edu/blount/minor.html)</p>
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<p>My son has some friends in the program. Over the weekend, he told me that they spent their freshman year reading the classics, among the other reading assignments. He said that some of the seminars that the students attend are quite interesting. It’s a great program if you really like to read and write. Since he’s a math kid, Blount would not have been of interest to him.</p>
<p>I’m thinking that S, since he’s in A&S should look further into Blount. It is hard to talk him out of the honors dorms though.<br>
Is there any benefit to graduating from Blount? For example - cbhp & fellows are prestigious, competitive programs at UA and I imagine graduates achieve success in the job market or grad school. How do Blount Graduates fare?</p>