Invite LIFE professors and TAs to dinner. Coordinate living-learning community activities with Resident Assistant for LIFE cluster. Advertise, attend, and encourage involvement in presentations or events that might be of interest to the LIFE cluster. The Peer Mentor links the LIFE students with their courses, instructors, The Peer Mentor is an anchor to the living-learning experience, the LIFE program, and the university generally. Course Activities Students complete various assignments aimed at assessing the learning experience.
Students engage in at least three content-based activities during the semester.
The first is an interaction with a practitioner in the field relevant to the theme of the cluster. The second and third content-based activities are open topics but must advance the theme. The purpose of the final project is to encourage students to work collaboratively and reflectively in order to achieve a sense of cooperation and completeness in pursuing academic inquiry. One LIFE cluster, The E-Bricks of the Internet , built a computer and documented the activity with a website. Another LIFE cluster, Mind, Body, and Spirit, organized a mini-Olympics in which the exercise science students performed the athletic activities, the nutritionists guided the athletes calorie intake, and the nursing students provided medical and health support.