Residential College (RESC)
This program seeks to enrich students’ learning experience by integrating academic life into the residence halls. There are eight residential colleges:
- Arts
- Discovery
- Environmental
- Global
- Humanities
- Languages and Cultures
- Social Justice
- Society and Technology
Each college is organized around a common theme. All students enrolled in a residential college live on the same residence hall floor and all take a common course. Students organize extensive extracurricular programs related to the college themes. Upperclass students who wish to continue their affiliation with a college may continue to live together and may take additional courses.
All of the courses offered in the Residential Colleges fulfill the Foundation Seminar requirement for Arts and Sciences students; some Residential College courses fulfill English, social science, or humanities requirements for engineering students. Residential College Foundation Seminars which have been taught recently include:
Arts College: Discovery of the Expressive Self; Printmaking as Social Commentary; Activism in the Arts
Environmental College: Cadillac Desert; The Human Impact: an Evolutionary Perspective
Global College: Global Challenges
Humanities College: Myth, Reason, Faith; The Posthuman Humanities; God(s) in American Life
Languages and Cultures College: How We Do Things With Words; Making Sense of Cultural Difference
Social Justice College: Change the World; Gandhi: Man, Myth, Legacy
Society and Technology College: The Future is Now; Chance: Statistics in the News
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. This will provide a focused opportunity to explore social movements and resource mobilization. Priority given to first- and second-year students from the social justice residential college. Permission of the instructor required.
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. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor. Open to first-year students only. May be repeated by permission of the instructor.
RESC 220. Residential College Sophomore Program. .25 Credits.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:1.5
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 Sophomore Program. .25 Credits.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:1.5
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: Roger I. Rothman, Slava I. Yastremski