Department of Housing and Residence Life
Academic Connections to Enhance Success (ACES)
Join a Freshman Living-Learning Community!
ACES (Academic Connections to Enhance Success) Living Learning Community provides accepted first-year students with access to a small community of peers within the larger university setting and direct connections with dedicated faculty and staff. For the Fall 2023 semester, pre-Nursing students may participate in one first-year student experience focused living-learning community. Students admitted into the four 2023-24 ACES community will:
- Live together in the same residence hall
- Take a set of courses together in the fall and spring semester
- Benefit from additional programs and mentoring from student leaders, staff, and faculty
- Listed classes are tentatively selected and are subject to change.
Questions about the ACES program can be directed to The Department of Housing and Residence Life at 601.266.4783 or resllifeFREEMississippi.
Courses Available for Fall 2023
- CHE 106 - General Chemistry I (with Lab)
- Course highlights basic chemical concepts including SI units, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, enthalpy, atoms, molecules, structure, bonding, and states of matter.
- HIS 102 - World Civilizations: 1500 to present
- This course traces the development of human societies into the "modern world," from around 1500 C.E. to the present day. It stresses the interrelations of past cultures, comparing and contrasting the experiences of peoples and civilizations with one another.
- SOC 101 - Understanding Society: Principles of Sociology
- Designed to give a general overview of the perspectives, concepts and methodology of sociology
Courses Available for Spring 2024
- BSC 250 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I (with Lab)
- Cells and tissues; integumentary, skeletal, muscular, immune, respiratory and circulatory systems.
- REL 131 - Comparative Religion
- The study of religion as an aspect of human culture with attention to both Christian and non-Christian religions.
- DAN 130 - Dance Appreciation
- A survey of dance as a worldwide phenomenon of human behavior and its function in human society, past and present.
- - or -
- THE 100 - Theatrical Expressions
- An introduction to theatre as an art form reflecting the aesthetic aspects and social conditions of a culture.
Community for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
Students will be able to identify course interest in each of the four identified general education courses and will be automatically assigned a first year experience course during the fall semester. Preferences, dual enrollment credit, and course capacity limits will factor into decisions for GEC courses. Program opportunities hosted by The Department of Housing and Residence Life, student leaders, as well as course faculty members will be available throughout the fall and spring semesters to ACES students.
ACES Students will reside in Century Park North Building 3, follow this link to access more information about Housing and Residence Life and living on campus.
Spring courses will be identified at a later date.
Program opportunities hosted by The Department of Housing and Residence Life, student leaders, as well as course faculty members will be available throughout the fall and spring semesters to ACES students.
ACES Students will reside in Century Park North Building 3, follow this link to access more information about Housing and Residence Life and living on campus.
Spring courses will be identified at a later date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately, you cannot do both ACES and Luckyday or Honors College. ACES students must live in the ACES residence hall for their community and cannot opt to live in Luckyday or Honors housing.
A key element of the program is the shared living environment in on-campus housing (Hattiesburg campus). It allows first-year students to engage in a supportive community as early as their first day on campus. As a result, you are not able to be a part of ACES and live off-campus.
Yes. After you are accepted to Southern Miss, you will need to have a transcript/AP scores sent to the Admissions Office for verification. You can contact the Admissions Office by calling 601.266.5000 for more information.
The ACES program is a living, learning program that requires students to live together on a specific floor of a residence hall and take specific classes together. As a result, you are required to live on the designated ACES floor. All of our ACES participants are assigned specific floors in Century Park North Building 3.
We ask that ACES students reside with other ACES students. If you and your preferred roommate are both accepted into the ACES program, you and your desired roommate will both need to denote on your housing application that you want to room with each other. Both parties will need to have submitted their applications, paid their housing fees, and denoted roommate preferences by April 30, 2023. All roommate preferences that are submitted by the deadline will be accommodated as much as possible.
Please note that both roommates must be accepted into the ACES program due to the specific floor assignments.
Housing and Residence Life, Eagle Dining, and Moffitt Health Center have created guidelines and information for parents and students answering these questions.