Living & Learning Communities
Classes
As a student in the Wellness LLC, you will take three, 2-credit-hour academic courses during your first year. We start the year learning about wellness theory and personal wellness as it applies to each community member in the LLC. From there, we examine spirituality as it applies to wellness and the personal spiritual path. Finally, we study community wellness as it applies to our LLC and the local Denver area.
These courses provide a solid foundation to the optional minor in Wellness. Service learning is an important component to the Wellness LLC experience and is incorporated into each quarter.
Fall Quarter (2 credits)
Building a strong and dynamic community is the first step of a well community of students, and therefore, it is our first priority as a community in the Wellness LLC. This first quarter gives you a foundation in the theories of health and wellness in the physical, psychological and spiritual sense. Experiential service learning projects, papers and class lectures provide the tools for you to excel in the coming events of your first year in the Wellness LLC.
Winter Quarter (2 credits)
In the winter and spring, course work includes a personal examination of spiritual wellness and the spiritual context of wellness in our world.
Spring Quarter (2 credits)
Our final quarter is devoted to community wellness. During this quarter, we examine issues of race, class and gender as it applies to the wellness of our community at the University of Denver as well as the city in which we reside. The culminating service learning event of the spring quarter is Project Homeless Connect which is an event hosted by DU that provides an array of services and opportunities for people who are homeless or in transitional living environments.