Residential Curriculum

The Housing & Residential Education bases its programming efforts on our Residential Curriculum Model, which has four categories:

Self-Efficacy

Personal growth and exploration are cornerstones of student development. Students will build proficiency in identifying and verbalizing needs, ideas, thoughts, and values. Students will also have a broad understanding of the impact of actions on others and the community.

Learning Outcomes:
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to identify correlations between actions and values/beliefs.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to recognize the importance of building and sustaining positive relationships with others.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to develop the ability to determine personal needs and how to fill them.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to learn to exert control over behaviors, motivations, and social environments.

Wellness

Wellness is a multifaceted concept that encompasses physical, social, emotional, environmental, spiritual, financial, intellectual, and occupational wellbeing. UW-Green Bay residential environments will help students identify, establish, and maintain regular patterns of behavior that promote overall wellness.

Learning Outcomes:
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to define healthy habits regarding behavior-altering substances.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to identify campus and local community resources regarding wellness.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to assess current personal wellness levels.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to develop strategies to improve mental well-being.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to clearly articulate the relationship between wellness and one’s capacity to meet personal, academic, and life goals.

Inclusive Excellence

UW-Green Bay strives to foster and support inclusive communities which allow students to better understand personal cultural context. By developing competence and confidence, the UW-Green Bay residential communities will encourage residents to understand the importance of diversity, difference, and active inclusion.

Learning Outcomes:
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to discuss how national or global events affect the campus and local community.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to relate social justice and inclusion concepts to personal experiences.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to describe personal identities.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to express an increased confidence in confronting identity-based conflict.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will learn skills to break down barriers and create solutions to inequities.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to identify marginalized and privileged identities and how these relate to power.

Sustainability

UW-Green Bay recognizes the importance of sustaining a healthy campus environment for future Phoenix to come. Students will be empowered to make a positive impact on the environment and learn sustainable practices.

Learning Outcomes:
  • As a result of living on campus, students will determine one’s social responsibility as future professionals and citizens.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to define sustainability and identify major sustainability challenges and opportunities.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will be able to apply critical thinking skills to provide sustainable solutions and build resilient communities.
  • As a result of living on campus, students will learn how to apply knowledge beyond campus and know what it means to be a green global citizen.