What is a Living Learning Community?
Our Living Learning Communities (LLC) are a great way to connect with fellow students who share your interests and to continue your education outside the classroom. We invite students who are passionate about these themes to apply to participate in an LLC while in residence and get more out of their first-year experience at McMaster.
Residence Life has collaborated with our academic partners and other student success partners to bring you opportunities to live and learn in an integrated academic residential environment. This means that the events in your residence community will be focused around the LLC theme, allowing you to grow in your knowledge of this area and have a great time exploring your passions.
Why Join an LLC?
Studies show participation in an LLC can lead to:
- Increased GPA
- An increased sense of community, even in a large university
- Engagement with faculty, staff, and students
- Participation in connected courses and academic experiences
Explore Our LLC Themes
Change Makers
Change Makers is for students who want to drive positive change in their community (e.g. reducing poverty, increasing community health, and supporting youth).
Creative Expressions
This community is for students who are passionate about the arts. Open to students in all faculties, in the Creative Expressions Living Learning Community, you will share your love of fine arts, music, theatre and writing with each other and the wider McMaster community.
eSports & Gaming
This is the community for students who are interested in all aspects of gaming. You will be living and learning with other students who share a collective passion for e-sports, game theory, and all other types of games.
Global Perspectives
The Global Perspectives Community brings together students who are interested in cross-cultural learning, global diversity, and complex international issues.
Health & Wellness
Students in the community will be inspired to realize their potential through healthy active strategies and practices.
Innovation & Society
Students in the Innovation and Society community will have access to programming aimed at building critical thinking, creativity and communication skills.
Leaders & Influencers
This community is for students who strive to become better leaders. You will be offered various opportunities to develop strong leadership skills in the areas of communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and more.
Outdoor Leadership
The Outdoor Leadership Living Learning Community promotes personal growth, the development of leadership skills and conservation education through experiential learning opportunities and co-curricular activities.
Women in Leadership
Students in this community will discuss and examine their experiences, achievements and positions as women in higher education and society.
Timeless
Students in this community will take part in conversations regarding health, ageing and wellbeing. Students in this LLC will get the opportunity to work with older adults within the community and learn alongside them during planned activities.
Career Hive
Students in this community will be able to explore their interests and skills as they relate to future careers. You will be encouraged to participate in activities that focus on goal setting and career exploration as you work to create an individualized career readiness plan.
What is a Lifestyle Themed Community?
A Lifestyle Themed Community is for students wishing to live in an environment with shared expectations surrounding a particular lifestyle.
Quiet Community
All residence communities have established quiet hours when noise must be kept to an absolute minimum. Students living in Quiet Communities agree to extended quiet hours and to keeping noise to an absolute minimum at all times.
- Quiet hours for this community are Sunday-Thursday 10pm-8am and Friday-Saturday 1am-8am. During quiet hours there should be absolute quiet. This means that students should not be able to hear their neighbours in the community or students in the hall.
Substance-Free Community
This community is a welcoming space for students who wish to live in an environment free of alcohol and other controlled substances. Students living in this community agree to neither possess nor consume alcohol and other controlled substances within their room or in common spaces. These expectations also apply to all guests visiting this community.
All-Female Community
This community is a welcoming space for female students who wish to live in a single-sex environment. Although this is an all-female community, male guests are permitted to visit.
