The Arts Village Learning Community

Artistic Living in a Learning Community
In most colleges students are not given a choice of where and who they live with in their dorms and what classes they can take. The perfect solution for this is The Arts Village Learning Community at Bowling Green State University. The Arts Village is a community of students living and learning together. At Bowling Green State University the school is trying to make student living fun by incorporating, class work, friendship, and community learning all in one.  The school has several learning communities but one that stands out the most is The Arts Village.  The Arts Village has enhanced academics with community learning, art, and fun.  First year students can benefit from participating in The Arts Village Learning Community because they are able to explore all different forms of art through the different programs it offers, along with making new friends and enjoying where they live and go to school.  Most incoming freshman feel that they will struggle their first year, but The Arts Village will help them succeed in school and in the future. 

The students of The Arts Village all live together in the Kriescher-Compton dorms. In The Arts Village students are offered classes that other students at the university are not.  The courses include, Taiko Drumming, Film, English, and various art courses.  They are different because normally in order to take some of the classes a student must be an art or a music major, but not in The Arts Village. Any student in The Arts Village can take these courses. These classes are different from other courses on campus because all of the students in the class live in The Arts Village and they all get individual attention that in a large lecture they would not. The students are able to learn in a comfortable environment with a teacher who is their mentor and friend. Continued on page 2....