id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7jrkhpt7mbfyniyrssun4pej7y Laura Renninger Building Connections, Building Communities: Strategies for Integrating Music and Literature in an Undergraduate Learning Community 2012 12 .pdf application/pdf 6153 405 58 class were direct participants who were part of the learning-community cohort. revealed a strong preference for learning community courses among both students and faculty at The research also shows that faculty members, as well as students, benefit from the crossdisciplinary collaboration that the learning community model fosters. weeks of the class exploring what makes literature, and especially poetry, "musical." Students English and the Music class were opened to students not enrolled in the learning community. and non-learning-community students into one half of a closely integrated, cross-disciplinary final month of the semester, one among students enrolled in both learning community classes These positive findings about the connections between English and music were in spite of nonLC participants frequently stating that they were not aware of the learning communities. however, was that the indirect participants in the learning community (students who were not coenrolled in the linked classes, but who were exposed to the course-integration strategies ./cache/work_7jrkhpt7mbfyniyrssun4pej7y.pdf ./txt/work_7jrkhpt7mbfyniyrssun4pej7y.txt