The Honors Connections Living Learning Community in Ridgecrest South is a smaller, intentional community within Honors Housing, created to aid first-year students’ transitions into a collegiate environment. The LLC is a discovery-based partnership where first-year Honors College students live and learn in community with each other and Honors College sophomores, juniors and seniors who serve as peer mentors. Incoming freshmen living in the LLC will enroll in UH 100: Honors Connections, a class that introduces first-year students to the UA Honors College experience. The aim of this course is to aid each student in finding and examining their place within the Honors College, The University of Alabama and the greater community. Students will learn and practice the key concepts of engaged scholarship, including thinking, dialogue and leadership. Students will gain a practical understanding of the Honors College and their role within it, while also building relationships that foster continued participation in the kinship of scholars.
UA faculty alongside Honors College professional staff facilitate the LLC and the corresponding UH 100 course. Goals for each student in the LLC include: fostering a sense of community among students living in the LLC; forging lasting relationships between first year and upper-class students; and connecting first year students to the vast resources that can help them succeed in both the Honors College and Housing and Residential Communities.
Students must be a member of the University Honors Program (UHP) and enrolled in the 2-hour course, UH 100-600: Honors Connections, during the fall semester to be eligible to participate in the Honors Connections Living-Learning Community. Note that participants must register for UH 100-600 during their Bama Bound Orientation. Registration instructions will be shared after acceptance to the Honors Connections LLC and prior to your Bama Bound Orientation.
The deadline to apply to be a member of the 2026-27 cohort of the Honors Connections Living-Learning Community is March 31, 2026. Applications are now open.