The Justice & The Common Good LLC is a residential community for first-year MCAS students who would like to deepen their interests in social justice, cultural diversity, and the common good. Students in the JCG LLC gain new tools for reflecting on and leading social transformation in pursuit of justice, equity, and universal flourishing.
The JCG LLC application is open to all incoming first-year MCAS students and is due on July 1, 2024. Members of the JCG LLC live in Gonzaga Hall on Upper Campus. In the fall, LLC students enroll in either a Complex Problem (CP) or Enduring Question (EQ) course as well as a First-Year Topic Seminar. The Complex Problem or Enduring Question course will fulfill three (3) Core requirements, including Cultural Diversity. The First-Year Topic Seminar, taught by students' pre-major faculty advisers, meets once per week to discuss themes surrounding justice.
The Fall 2024 Complex Problem and Enduring Question courses to choose from are: - Exchange and Values: Stories and Measures of Inequality (ENGL1738 + ECON1503)
- Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering (ENGR1801 + HIST1627)
- Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity (ECON1704 + UNAS1725)
- Hiroshima to K-Pop (UNAS1716 + UNAS1717)
- Utopian Imaginings (ENGL1741 + UNAS1736)
- The Self & Its Limits (PHIL1727 + CLAS1706)
JCG LLC students are placed in one of the following First-Year Topic Seminars:- Living and Learning Justice (UNCS2245.06)
- Conversations In/Justice (UNCS2245.22)
- Justice, Law, and the Common Good (UNCS2245.20)