Your Gateway to a Fuller College Experience
Network with future business leaders. Bond with peers who also have a passion for teaching the next generation. Unleash your creativity alongside other artists and musicians. Find all this and more with Living Learning Programs at MSU Texas.
What is a Living Learning Program?
Find Your Fit with Living Learning Programs at MSU Texas
From business and music to e-sports and education, our Living Learning Programs span a wide breadth of academic and personal interests so there is a place for everyone to find a supportive community that encourages their individuality.
Academic Communities
Business
Legacy Hall
Dig deeper into business fundamentals with a network of industry professionals, faculty, and staff.
Education
Prepare for a future as an educator by connecting with on-campus mentors and our Wichita Falls education community.
Fine Arts
Get creative across multiple disciplines in art, mass communication, music, and theatre.
Health Sciences & Human Services
Gain access to the holistic skills that will help you to excel as a health-care professional.
Math & Science
Become better acquainted with possible STEM career paths and the innovative technology to help you stand out.
Special Interest Communities
Esports and Gaming
Join a vibrant community affiliated with gaming organizations on campus and gain exposure to career paths in the world of gaming.
Transfer Students
Find community among a welcoming group of transfer students to help ease the transition to life at MSU Texas.
Priddy Scholars
Starting college life is a big transition. Make MSU Texas feel like home alongside fellow first-generation college students.
Honors Program
Be encouraged on a path to greater academic success alongside an intellectually engaged community.
Benefits of Participating in a Living Learning Program
As part of a Living Learning Program, you will cultivate strong academic and social support systems, make connections with faculty and staff mentors, and develop a deeper understanding of your area of study.
You will be paired with peers who have similar hobbies, academic interests, or vision for their future. WIth so much established common ground before you even move in, it is easy to find your people and feel integrated in campus life right away.
You will receive mentorship and guidance from expert professors in your field or members of the MSU Texas community who share your interest. As a result, you will benefit from knowledge sharing and networking that will help illuminate different possibilities for your time in college and your postgraduate life.
By interacting with course material and concepts outside of the classroom - through discussion, collaboration with peers, and more informal activities such as trivia nights with professors - you will develop a thorough understanding of your discipline that lends a thoughtful and informed perspective to your time in the classroom.
Each of our Mustangs is multi-faceted with interests that extend beyond their major or minor. A special interest LLP is a great way to invest more of your time and attention in a passion, hobby, or aspect of your identity, helping you to create a rich college experience for yourself that is not limited to academics.
Living Learning Program FAQs
How do I apply?
To apply, indicate which LLP you would like to be considered for on your housing application. From there, you will be assigned to your program and room. You are woelcome to check your assignment status at any time through the Housing Portal.
If you want to join an LLP but did not do so on your application, sign back in to the Housing Portal and change your first choice to your desired LLP.
Please note that space in each LLP is limited, so be sure to apply early. If an LLP becomes full by the time you apply, you will be added to a waiting list. For fall housing, LLP room placements begin in mid-April and are updated weekly as space is available. [Do we know when spring LLP room placements begin, or do we only do them in the fall?]
Why should I join a Living Learning Program?
By connecting your academic and social life with your residential experience, LLPs offer a built-in way to access the best parts of your college years - a close-knit community, immersion in your interests, and mentorship from expert professors - right away.
Plus, national research suggests that students who participate in an LLP develop stronger support systems, network more often, and engage more deeply with their field of study than students in traditional residential halls.
What kinds of activities are offered in an LLP?
Your Resident Assistant (RA) is in charge of planning programming for your LLP. TThis could look like dinners with academic advisors or professionals in your field, trivia nights, community service opportunities, "Get on the Bus Days" (biannual field trips to places including the Oklahoma City Zoo and The Perot Museum of Nature and Science), welcome mixers, and an annual Thanksgiving Potluck.
Those are just a few examples! There is never a dull moment when you are living in an LLP!!
What does mentorship look like?
Who can I contact with questions?
Sunwatcher Village Clubhouse
8:00-5:00 a.m.
Email: housing@msutexas.edu
Phone: 940.397.4217
Phone (TDD): 940.397.4515
Fax: 940.397.4778
After hours, please contact:
- 24-hour Legacy Commons Desk: 940.397.6600
- MSU Texas Police: 940.397.4239
