Seaver College LLC
Seaver College Living Learning Community (LLC)
Seaver LLC participants enroll in a 1-unit seminar and live together in Palm North. These components, among other co-curricular experiences are designed to create a fully integrated learning experience and further the student's interest and success in pursuing careers in the sciences.
By living and taking classes together, the community members will have an opportunity to form bonds and friendships to tackle the challenging, yet rewarding coursework that lies ahead.
Incoming first-year students can apply to participate by logging into the housing application. All admitted applicants will be notified via their LMU email account to confirm their participation. Participants will move in early to their residences, before first year students move-in to their dorms.
Elements of the Seaver LLC Program
SCEM 190: Exploring STEM
The SCEM 190 course offered in the fall will provide community members with the knowledge and skills essential to becoming successful students in the STEM fields at LMU. The class sessions are highly interactive and designed to help community members plot a path for success at LMU.
Los Angeles Experience
Past excursions included trips to some of Los Angeles' well-known nature science centers and areas of ecological interest including the Griffith Observatory, California Science Center, Ballona Wetlands, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, SpaceX, Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL), Disneyland Imagineering Experience tours, and the Aquarium of the Pacific.
How to Apply
Select “SC-LLC” in the LLC section of your housing application. If you have any questions about participating in a living-learning community, contact the Center for Student Success at css@lmu.edu.
"Seaver College Living Learning Communities gave me access to an incredible network of faculty and students to support me in all aspects during my first year and beyond. I am extremely grateful for my LLC experience for giving me a holistic engineering experience as well as the opportunities and friendships that have resulted from it.”
- Emma Lee, Electrical Engineering
"I quickly became close with the all of the other LLC students. It was through these connections that I decided to study abroad during the fall of my second year in Bonn, Germany. The opportunity heightened my interested and experience as a civil engineering student."
- Nicholas Neveu, Civil Engineering
"Not only have I learned a lot of new academic information, but I’ve learned a lot about myself. LMU has come to feel much more like a home-away-from-home than I ever expected."
- Emmett Barnes, Biochemistry Major
"Coming to college can be stressful, but living learning communities are there to support you through the transition! Being able to have a group that I was a part of before classes even started gave me a head start on navigating my way through new friendships. These experiences with LLC allowed me to have a better transition into college and opened up a variety of opportunities throughout my college career."
- Amenah Awawdeh, Health and Human Sciences Major