"This college provides a chance to teach things that matter to students who, more often than not, know they matter.”

—Hank Greenspan, RC Social Science Professor and Counselor

RC students balance their studies and worldviews by blending knowledge across courses:

The RC curriculum is designed to be flexible and responsive to change, giving students the freedom to challenge themselves - by using poetry as a lens for immigration issues, or film as an environment for tactile art, or even labor organization technique as an exercise to flesh out economics.

RC courses cover an array of topics in the social sciences, humanities, creative writing, arts, and foreign language:

Here at the RC, students can choose from five concentrations and five minors, as well as unique hands-on and experiential courses. RC students are welcome to select any of the dozens of LSA concentrations and minors or may also combine choices from both the RC and LSA.

The RC puts students ‘in the world’ by engaging in citizenship as well as scholarship:

Whether it’s using Spanish skills to tutor children in Detroit, working with a clinic in Central America, creating original theater, or participating in RC executive committee meetings, RC students have abundant opportunities to learn outside the classroom.

Real-World Experience

Why Choose the Residential College?

Liberal Arts Education

All RC students are LSA students; but NOT all LSA students are RC students:

RC students get insider access to the many courses and co-curricular activities of the RC as well as to the wide variety of opportunities available in the College of LSA.