Programs & Certifications

Learning Community Lab:

The LC Lab is offered for one hour at three different times during the week.  Each session is staffed by team professors from English, math, reading, and educational planning/academic advisement.  Students are required to attend one session each week and can come to any session they wish.  During the lab time, professors work with those students who attend, providing intensive tutoring as needed.

Virtual Classroom:

Since the students are spread over various lab times, an online classroom is used to provide additional peer network building.  Using the Desire2Learn online platform associated with the course, students post eight directed journal writings over the course of the semester.  These writings respond to prompts focused on self-reflection and academic skill building.  They provide support and interaction among all students enrolled.

Orientation, Midterm, and Final

Each semester, participating students and professors attend a mandatory Orientation “on Tuesday, the second of classes in HU 130”, a “enjoyable” midterm group activity, and a final study lab. During orientation, additional information about the program is provided to students, but the main focus is on team building activities among the students and to create an opportunity to bond with the professors.  At the end of the session, each professor takes responsibility for mentoring a specific small group of the students throughout the semester. Our midterm and final also focus on team building activities.  

Course Information

Prerequisite courses or skills – None

Course Title/Section Number/Course Number – Learning Community – SOSC 2091

Time and Location – Humanities 130 – Times: Chosen lab times

Textbooks required are those already being used in the class or classes in which the student is co-enrolling for this lab. No additional textbooks are required.

Supplies available upon request are as follows: Planner, Three-ring binder, Folder inserts, Flash drive, Highlighters, Calculators, Dictionary/Thesaurus

Lab Course, Individualized Instruction, and Group Instruction

Class Computer Usage

All course sections at RSC may be Web enhanced and require some level of access to a computer and the College Utilized Learning Management System.  Free access to computers is available to all enrolled students in the Learning Resources Center and in other Academic Division computer laboratories.

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to demonstrate the following:

• through specialized tutoring: to increase skills in mathematics, reading, grammar, technology, study skills, and writing
• to become familiar with available resources both on and off campus
• to improve critical thinking skills
• to recognize and strengthen use of learning strategies  
• to increase technology proficiency
• to enhance effective communication skills
• to improve analytical literacy