Watauga Residential College
College University
Why pick this one
Watauga Residential College offers interdisciplinary residential learning with shared meals, small seminars, and local-to-global investigation courses.
Best for
- Students seeking a close residential community with faculty interaction
- Students interested in interdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning
- Students wanting local and global issue research
- Students seeking courses that fulfill many general education requirements
- Transfer students willing to live in the Living Learning Center during their first academic year
Look elsewhere if
- Students who cannot live in the Living Learning Center during their first year
- Students seeking a fully nonresidential academic program
- Students participating in a residential learning community requiring a different residence hall
- First-year marching band participants because practice conflicts with shared lunches
Specialties
- Interdisciplinary inquiry-based learning
- Local and global investigations courses
- Residential college community with shared meals and classes
- Community-based research and service learning
- General education requirement fulfillment
What makes them different
- Students live, share meals, and take classes together in the Living Learning Center
- First-year students take six-credit Investigations: Local and Investigations: Global core courses
- Curriculum fulfills many Appalachian State University general education requirements
- Classes use inquiry-based, experiential, and interdisciplinary learning
- Program history spans more than 50 years
- Response time
- Please allow 48 hours to reply to visit inquiries
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 301 Bodenheimer Dr, Boone, NC 28607
- Phone
- +18282622417
- Website
- http://watauga.appstate.edu/
- ammonll@appstate.edu
Services
- Undergraduate residential college program
- Interdisciplinary curriculum
- Small seminar courses
- Student visit scheduling
- First-year and transfer student applications