Question:

You worked hard in high school, and now you’ve been accepted at one of the best comprehensive universities in the country. What is your reward?

Answer:

An invitation to join a socially conscious, innovative group of students in Appalachian State’s only residential, interdisciplinary, and internationally-focused learning community—Watauga Global Community!

If you can answer “Yes” to any one of the following, you should explore Watauga Global Community further—it might be the right program for you:

1. Do you love to learn, especially when it challenges what you already know?
2. Do your creativity and intelligence ever get you into trouble? Or leave you on the outside looking in?
3. Are you curious about other people, who they are, what they believe and why they believe it? Do you want to explore your interests with other curious students and faculty?
4. Are you interested in examining local and global issues, working to understand them and proposing solutions for a better world?
5. Do you want to be part of an international community, surrounded by the language and food of many cultures?
6. Are you willing to work hard in order to discover all that you are capable of doing?

Typical Watauga Classes

All Watauga classes are discussion-oriented seminars that allow students to pursue topics of interest to them within the context of the class.

• Local Investigations: Local Food Networks
• Community and Mutual Aid
• Deliberate Living: The Search for Simplicity and Quality
• Know Your Place: Ideas about Science, the Environment, and Culture
• Poetry Writing Workshop
• Fiber Arts—Quilting in America
• Multicultural Travel
• The Culture of Sport
• The Counterculture of the Fifties
• Mexican Culture through Film
• The Art and Culture of Taiko
• Edible Schoolyard—Gardening for Nutrition, Sustainability, and Art
• Japanese Literature and Identity
• Generation Y

Watauga Global Community: The Facts

• All Watauga classes meet Appalachian’s general education requirements. They are alternative, not additional, classes.
• You can be in the program and major in whatever Appalachian offers.
• Many Honors students join Watauga and can meet some of their Honors requirements with Watauga courses.
• The Living Learning Center houses Watauga students, Teaching Fellows, International exchange students, and the Language and Culture Community, all of whom participate in cultural activities and residence hall governance. With its multiple kitchens, lounges, classrooms, and garden, the LLC resembles a small village.

In our interdisciplinary team-taught (multiple professor) core classes, you will gain reading and writing skills and examine local and global issues through fact, fiction, culture, philosophy, motion, art, music, myth, and religion. The variety of formats—lectures, smaller discussion sections, small project groups, linked classes and even trips outside the classroom—provide many different approaches for comprehensive learning, assuring that one or more of these formats will be ideally suited to you. Working closely with your peers, upperclassmen, and faculty, you will blend academics, residential life, and international concerns into a seamless experience.

For more information

http://llc.appstate.edu/

David Huntley, Director
828/262-2417

Ms. BR Hoffman, Administrative Assistant
828/262-7213

We invite you to visit, join an class or two, and get to know current Wataugans in a typical setting of class and lunch.

How to Apply

Fill out the Questionnaire, save it as a Word or .pdf file, and send it as an attachment to huntleyde@appstate.edu. You can also do this from the program website.

Watauga Global Community is limited to 100 freshmen. If you are interested, please respond soon. We do establish a wait list, and those close to the top can expect to be part of the program.

Watauga Global Community is a unit within Appalachian’s University College. University College consists of the university’s integrated general education curriculum, academic support services, residential learning communities, interdisciplinary degree programs and co-curricular programming – all designed to support the work of students both inside and outside of the classroom.

For more information, go to http://universitycollege.appstate.edu.