Spring Admitted Students

Congratulations on your admission to the University of Maryland! As a Freshmen Connection student, you have the unique opportunity to participate in Carillon Communities. More than half of all first-year students at Maryland participate in a learning community. One of our communities is specifically reserved for Freshmen Connection students, and you can choose to participate while there are still spots left!

Masculinities & Family Health (FMSC190)

Masculinities and Family Health

How do masculinities shape family health and well-being? 

This community is reserved for Freshmen Connection students.

Masculinities & Family Health explores the rapidly changing masculinities in contemporary families.  Consider risks to men's health, work pathways, and new configurations of partnering and parenting. Assess how these have transformed the lives of multiple generations of men.

Harvest

How can economics help us understand environmental problems and design better policies to solve them?

To solve environmental problems – pollution, climate change, congestion, overuse of natural resources -- we must understand the incentives and decisions that create them. This community engages you in an active exploration of the relation between economics, the environment, and policy.

Freedom Fighting

How did ordinary people destroy American slavery?

This community is reserved for Freshmen Connection students.

Free Speech

Why is the right to free speech so essential in a democracy and such a threat to totalitarianism?

Freedom of speech ensures the freedom to question so without it critical inquiry suffocates. Explore two very different historical experiences – that of the US and of Russia – and engage in critical inquiry about some of the most pressing free speech issues of our day. 

Design in Practice

How do designers envision better futures? 

While the scientific method is a process for understanding the way things are, design is a way of thinking and doing to discover how things ought to be. Design in Practice teaches design thinking for innovation and entrepreneurship. Design thinking is a superpower that enables its practitioners to envision the future. This course will help students in all majors apply design thinking to become change agents in their own lives and careers. Expect an active, interactive, hands-on, project-based learning experience.

Carillon Leadership Badge

The Carillon Communities: Leadership Badge recognizes student engagement and initiative-taking in Carillon Communities beyond the first semester–specifically through community-building activities. Through a variety of program-centered opportunities, Carillon Leaders hone skills of teamwork and creative problem-solving–core Carillon values–as well as skills of communication, responsibility, and empathy.

Please email carillon@umd.edu if you are interested in earning a Carillon Communities Badge.