Residential College (RESC)

This Living-Learning Community program seeks to enrich students’ learning experience by integrating academic life into the residence halls. For AY 2024-2025, the anticipated nine residential college themes are:

  • Arts
  • Discovery
  • Environmental
  • Food
  • Global
  • Humanities
  • Languages & Cultures
  • Social Justice
  • Society & Technology

Each college is organized around a common theme. All students enrolled in a residential college take a common course called a Foundation Seminar in the fall semester. They also live on the same residence hall floor for both fall and spring semesters of their first year. Students organize a variety of extracurricular programs related to the college themes. Upper-class students who wish to continue their affiliation with a college may continue to live together and take additional courses.

All RESC 098 courses fulfill the Foundation Seminar and W1 requirements.

More information at bucknell.edu/ResColleges.

Courses

RESC 098. Foundation Seminar in Residential Colleges. 1 Credit.

Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3
Foundation seminar offered only through the individual Residential Colleges. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

RESC 115. Community Service for Social Justice. .5 Credits.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:1.5; Repeatable
Students will be actively involved in service or advocacy work at community-based sites working for change and social justice. The course will meet once a week to examine history, concepts, and theory about the role of individuals and groups seeking justice.

RESC 120. Be The Change. .5 Credits.

Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:1,Other:1; Repeatable
Students attend a weekly class to discuss topics in social, global and environmental justice that are explored in campus events, lectures, and films. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Open to first-year students only. May be repeated by permission of the instructor.

RESC 121. Social Justice Learning Community. .25 Credits.

Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:1; Repeatable
This seminar replaces the Social Justice Residential College while it takes a year hiatus. Students will critically examine marginalization based on intersections of age, ability, class, gender, race, religion and sexuality, with the goal of working towards a more just Bucknell. Includes funded weekly lunch and a trip to D.C.

RESC 220. Residential College Dinner Seminar. .25 Credits.

Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:1.5; Repeatable
Students will build on capacities achieved during the first year by constructing and then engaging in a set of learning experiences in a group.

RESC 221. Residential College Dinner Seminar. .25 Credits.

Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:1.5; Repeatable
Students will complete the set of learning experiences constructed in the fall and will present their work to first-year students in the same Residential College. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

Faculty

Academic Co-coordinators: Peter Brooksbank, Collin McKinney