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Dr. Fran Bender
Email: fys@utc.edu
Phone: (423)425-4636

Learning Communities

As you start UTC, you may have some apprehension about meeting new people and adjusting to college, both its academic and social aspects. Being in a learning community with twenty other students will give you the opportunity to meet other students who may have similar interests and also professors who are excited to being teaching and learning with you. You’ll be having out of class activities, study groups, and other opportunities which your group and professors want. Meeting new people and making new friends right at the beginning of college are great reasons to joining a learning community! We hope you will sign up now before the communities are filled!

Here are the Learning Communities you can choose from:

  1. Alternative Traditions in Cinema
  2. Comic Book Culture
  3. The Creative Lifestyle
  4. Food, Glorious Food!
  5. Millennial Generation: Fact and Fiction
  6. Poetry and Myth-making: Using Creative Writing to Revise History
  7. Sense of Place

Fill out and submit the form below to sign up. Please note that all fields are required.

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Please rank your top learning communities choice:

Alternative Traditions in Cinema


Comic Book Culture


The Creative Lifestyle


Food, Glorious Food!


Millennial Generation: Fact and Fiction


Poetry and Myth-making: Using Creative Writing to Revise History


Sense of Place


Write three or four sentences in response to these questions:

Why are you interested in joining UTC's Learning Community?

What do you hope to gain from being a part of UTC's Learning Community?

What are your expectations about your first year of college?

What areas of study interest you?

What are your non-academic interests?