Learning Communities
Increase Your Chances for Academic Success, Join a Learning Community
A learning community is a combination of courses linked together around a common topic or theme with assignments that cut across courses. A learning community is one educational model that serves to enhance teaching and learning. Instructors and counselors work together to design new ways to teach students in learning communities with ongoing collaboration and cross-instruction throughout the semester. This faculty “team” approach complements the educational experience in a way that connects learning across subjects.
Why does Delaware Technical Community College offer learning communities?
Studies across the nation have shown learning communities improve learning and student success. While that’s reason enough, students also say they get to know their classmates and instructors better, and they enjoy the classes more than “stand alone” courses. Research indicates students persist in college if the learning experience is meaningful, deeply engaging and relevant to their lives. By offering learning communities, Delaware Tech is demonstrating its commitment to creating a culture of student success.
You can:
- Make good friends
- Jump right into campus life
- Build supportive relationships with your peers and instructors
- Learn more, and have fun doing it
- Get better grades
- Fulfill your degree requirements
By registering for a Delaware Tech Learning Community!
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Featured Learning Communities
Brewing Up a Business Career
- Courses: ENG 101, BUS 101
Description: This 6-credit learning community for first-year Business, Agribusiness, and Entrepreneurship students centers around Sam Calagione's book Brewing Up a Business where he shares entrepreneurial advice and experiences. The community travels to Dogfish Head Brewery and other local businesses for tours and attends a 1 Million Cups event on campus.
Location offered: Dover campus
Adventures in Agriculture
- Courses: AGS 102, ENG 101
Description: This 6-credit community is for first-year Agriculture majors. Students explore topics in agriculture using critical thinking processes. Reading and writing assignments focus on current agriculture topics. The community plans to visit the Delaware Agricultural Museum.
Location offered: Georgetown campus
SOS: Starting Out Strong
- Courses: ENG 007, SSC 100
Description: This 3-credit developmental learning community helps students start off on the right foot in a short period of time. During the first 4 weeks of the semester, they will focus on student success strategies, reading skills, and the writing process. After successful completion of this 4-week community, students will be able to begin ENG 090 in Week 5.
Location offered: Stanton campus
Stay on Track
- Courses: MAT 005, MAT 010, SSC 100
Description: In this 4-credit learning community, students will integrate basic math skills with developmental-level math for additional reinforcement and application. Because 005 emphasizes fundamentals like adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with whole numbers, these skills will be explicitly reinforced throughout the semester as students’ progress to work with fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers, and algebra.
Location offered: Wilmington campus
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"The learning community helps make connections with others. It takes away the fear that you are there alone because you know someone."
Vanessa Ortiz and Abigail Castaneda | "Think Before You Teach" learning community
"Both classes interacted with each other. In my English class we got to write about what we were learning in the agriculture class."
Kayla Meredith | "Planning an Agribusiness the Write Way and Adventures in Agriculture" learning community
"The learning community was interesting because we ran weather simulations on our computer model to determine ways the school could save on energy costs. The work we did is identical to what we could be doing in the real world as a career."
Jake Biggs | "Building Specialist" learning community
"The Learning Community was an amazing way to start my journey at Delaware Tech. It gave me the support I needed from other students and a sense of belonging. Now I encourage other students to look into a Learning Community."
Tearsha Morin | "Communication and the Path to Justice" learning community
"The Learning Community I was in combined English and Agricultural Business. The instructors would look at both the grammar and content of my reports. It made it easier for me to learn the material. I think there should be even more Learning Community courses available."
Loren Harmon | "Adventures in Agriculture" learning community
"I was able to make so many lasting friendships and meet so many wonderful teachers. Along with the bonds I had created with my classmates and teachers, we were also able to take wonderful field trips to places such as the Library of Congress, the Scholastic Book Fair Warehouse, and Shields Elementary School. The field trips I went on were all so enjoyable and fantastic experiences."
Eric Winter | "Read All About It" learning community
Contact Georgetown:
Amber King
Learning Communities Coordinator
amber.king@dtcc.edu
(302) 259-6058
Tammy Watkins
Learning Communities Coordinator
tkellywa@dtcc.edu
(302) 259-6459
Contact Dover:
Michelle Garey
Learning Communities Coordinator
michelle.garey@dtcc.edu
(302) 857-1221
Kim Austin
Learning Communities Coordinator
kaustin@dtcc.edu
(302) 857-1025
Contact Stanton:
Cecilia Hoopes
Learning Communities Coordinator
choopes@dtcc.edu
(302) 453-3790
Mary Anne Farrell
Learning Communities Coordinator
farrell@dtcc.edu
(302) 454-3941
Contact Wilmington:
Jerry Kavanagh
Learning Communities Coordinator
gkavanag@dtcc.edu
(302) 573-5495
Cara Stanard
Learning Communities Coordinator
cara.stanard@dtcc.edu
(302) 571-5339
