Outdoor Adventure Living-Learning Community
Resilience.Relationship.Responsibility.Rest
The Outdoor Adventure Living Learning Community pursues growth by engaging in adventure. Within the LLC, students are guided toward creating an authentic and tightly knit community through experiencing success, uncertainty, and challenge in the outdoors. By melding together a community of students who have different majors, perspectives and beliefs, the OALLC provides a unique space to develop deeper relationships, stronger resilience, restful practices, and increased responsibility.
Adventure Sport Class
Adventure With a Purpose
The Outdoor Adventure Sports class creates the structure for all LLC students to engage within a cohort, develop a versatile skill set, and challenge themselves holistically. After a 3-week rotation each of climbing, mountain biking, outdoor living, and facilitation, students specialize in the sports of their choice on 2-separate weekend adventure trips.
The partners of the OA LLC provide many opportunities to deepen relationships and experiences at Baylor.
Baylor University offers students the opportunity to major or minor in Recreation and Leisure Services (RLS). Through the RLS program, students are equipped for careers focused on public parks and recreation, recreational and professional sports organizations, tourism operations, recreation ministry, state and national parks, and more.
Student of the OA LLC live on the 4th floor of Penland Hall. The Penland community fosters a culture of wellness emphasizing the importance of spiritual, emotional, intellectual, relational and physical wellbeing.