Special Living Options
Global Living Community
The Global Living Community (GLC) is dedicated to fostering a greater understanding of issues, traditions and cultures of all parts of the world. The community is made up of international and domestic students, sharing the common goals of gaining a global perspective, building a strong community, learning from each other, helping the less fortunate, and integrating with international students on campus. The community meets weekly and some of the programs include guest speakers on global social justice issues, foreign films, cultural dinners in the city, off campus retreats, and community service. This program is open to sophomore students and above. Space is limited so if you are interested, please check the corresponding box on the Contract for University Owned and Operated Housing and contact the Lone Mountain Hall Director at (415) 422-6104 for an application. For more information please visit the GLC website at http://www.usfca.edu/iss/glc.html
Loyola Village Theme Housing
The Office of Residence Life is offering future residents of Loyola Village the opportunity to live in theme-based communities where students’ chosen focus, a spirit of service, and cultural contact shapes the community's daily life. Theme communities develop a strong sense of academic community; offer programs that integrate topics from students' coursework; provide out-of-class opportunities for students to interact with faculty and staff; provide a community living experience that is supportive of students' academic success and interests; promote students' academic leadership, scholarship, and service. Members of a given theme community will work together to increase awareness of their interest within the larger Loyola Village community. For More Information Contact Kenrick Ali at x3353
Pedro Project
The Pedro Project is composed of students who make a year- long commitment to explore justice issues through community service and reflection. JEC members choose one area of a social justice work to focus on each semester, learning and engaging with that issue in a variety of ways. Members participate in a monthly group service project, meet for monthly reflections, attend a fall and spring retreat, plan a monthly educational program for Pedro Arrupe Hall, complete 10 hours of individual community service work each semester. Our community is composed of students who are interested in making a constant commitment to community service. For More Information Contact Betsy Trapp at 571-4011.
Saint Ignatius Institute (SII)
SII students engage in an in-depth examination of philosophy, theology and the humanities in addition to their chosen majors. Two wings are set aside in Hayes-Healy Hall to house SII students. The SII student has the option to reside in this community with other SII students. This provides an opportunity for mutual support and camaraderie. Other USF students also live on these particular floors, and this arrangement helps to integrate the SII students into the larger USF community.
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Living-Learning Communities
Erasmus Community
The Erasmus program is designed to bring together sophomore and junior students from the various undergraduate colleges at USF in a shared living and learning environment. During the year-long program, students engage as a community in coursework, community living, and social involvement at a number of organizations.
The programs allows students to learn theoretical information from the classroom experience, discuss this material as a community and directly apply information and ideas through various service projects. Over the course of the year, students delve deeper into their understanding of the intertextuality of ethics, service, and justice at local and global levels.
The program culminates with a three-week experience in a marginalized community which offers opportunities for students to dialogue with people working in direct service roles, engage in some direct service and reflect on the past year and their evolving understanding of justice, and their role in creating change.
Upon successful completion of both semesters in the Erasmus community, students earn credit towards the core requirements for Ethics (Area D) and Service-Learning (SL) as well as four units of elective credit.
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Esther Madriz Scholars Community
Named after the late Esther Madriz, beloved professor of sociology who embodied the Jesuit ideals of education, social justice and education of the whole person, this living-learning community explores issues of inequality, social justice, and social change. Scholars in the program take sociology courses which fulfill core requirements for Social Science (Area E), Cultural Diversity (CD), and Service-Learning (SL) designation. In addition to the academic curriculum, the student community participates in a fall weekend retreat, a weekly Karamu (community gathering), and field experiences that bring to life the issues learned in the classroom. Finally, students engage in a transnational immersion experience to gain a global perspective on national social problems and their solutions.
This two-semester program is a collaborative effort between the Sociology
Department and the Office of Multicultural Student Services and is open to interested sophomore and junior students.
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Martin-Baro Scholars Community
This unique living-learning community for entering freshman students is designed to provide a creative comprehensive curriculum of writing, speaking, and social science with a focus on diversity and service in the multicultural urban environment of San Francisco.
Students in the Martín-Baró Scholars Program explore social justice in contemporary urban life by participating in an integrated curriculum that meets the academic needs of most incoming first-year students. Core requirements for Writing and Public Speaking (Area A), Social Science (Area E), and the Service-Learning (SL) and Cultural Diversity (CD) designations as well as four units of elective credit are satisfied by successful completion of the both semesters in the Program. By living in specially designated space in the residence hall, students also develop and grow as a community of learners. At the end of the end of the academic year, students have the option to extend their learning abroad with a two-week transnational immersion.
Martín-Baró Scholars enroll in common courses (two courses each semester) during their first year, participate in reflective community service, and share in special learning excursions. Upon successful completion of the program, Martín-Baró scholars receive a certificate of recognition.
For more information, questions, or help with application to any of these communities, please contact:
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