Purdue University ’s Office of Enrollment Management defines Learning Communities as such: “Learning Communities are designed to foster greater intellectual interaction among students and their peers, and students and their instructors, and between instructors. They promote curricular cohesion and integration of ideas, and encourage an understanding of issues across discipline boundaries. Learning Communities promote uses of active and collaborative learning and help instructors and students create a richer, learning-centered environment.” For your learning community, Science Connections – Computer Science, we will be collaborating with Janice Thomaz to create an engaging, technology-focused first-year writing course.