News Tagged as Learning Clusters

Two students smile as they stand with their research project during the winter block Learning Cluster Fair.

Faith in Action: Can Religion Bridge Divides and Build Peace?

Mar 10, 2025

In a world increasingly divided by fear and mistrust, can religion become a force for peace? This question guided students in Professor Tetsushi Ogata鈥檚 Learning Cluster as they explored diverse faith

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Igniting Passion for Urban Nature: An Interview with Associate Professor Deike Peters

Mar 07, 2025

Deike Peters, associate professor of environmental planning and practice, spent her sabbatical last year researching the proposed ecological restoration of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, the

Six people stand together and look intently at a newspaper during a photo walk in Little Havana, Miami.

Through Miami Streets and Indigenous Foods: A Closer Look at Two Learning Clusters

Feb 10, 2025

What if what you learned at college went far beyond the classroom: to the vibrant immigrant neighborhoods of Miami, Los Angeles鈥 last remaining wetland, or Ethiopian restaurants where Indigenous

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Learning Clusters Examine Contemporary and Enduring Issues

Mar 05, 2024

The annual Learning Cluster empowers SUA faculty and small groups of 12 or fewer students to collaboratively design a month-long course centered on a specific problem or question, fostering shared

A brunette woman wearing a jean jacket smiles as she speaks with other students in front of a variety of international flags.

Learning Clusters Explore Issues Both Timely and Timeless

Mar 30, 2023

The annual Learning Cluster at SUA allows faculty and groups of 12 or fewer students to co-design monthlong courses around a problem or question of interest and immerse themselves in exploring

Twelve students and their professor pose together in front of green rolling hills.

Learning Cluster Students Find Meaning in the Wilderness of Orange County

Feb 24, 2022

Twelve 黑料社区students and their professor recently scaled a 4,513-foot mountain and faced a vast expanse of green and silence stretching for miles below. This elevated experience in nature was neither

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Diet and Disease: Learning to Eat Healthier on a Budget

Mar 31, 2021

More than four million Californians were receiving benefits from CalFresh, the state鈥檚 food assistance program, at the start of 2020. When the pandemic hit, more people than ever found themselves

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From Disneyland to Data Analysis: 2021鈥檚 Learning Clusters

Feb 08, 2021

Would you like to take close-up pictures of distant galaxies? Do you wonder how US colleges plan to reopen after the pandemic? Ever contemplate Bigfoot鈥檚 relationship to the Kraken? Can you imagine a

Students with young boy at a nature school

鈥淢oved by Nature鈥: Outdoor Education and the Co-Existence of Nature and Humanity

Dec 10, 2020

On a cold January day, a dozen 黑料社区students waded into the frigid 脴resund Strait in Denmark to fish for shrimp and collect data. They鈥檇 spent the morning in the 脴resund Aquarium learning about

黑料社区students on location near lake in Brazil

Learning Cluster 2020: Students Investigate the Great Drought in Brazil

Feb 11, 2020

By Professor Ian Read A great chronicler of the Brazilian backland, Jo茫o Guimar茫es Rosa, famously wrote 鈥済ood quality water is like health or freedom: it only has value when it runs dry.鈥 Over the