Shea House

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Shea House provides a language immersion environment to enhance students' linguistic and cultural competence in their target language and culture by offering quality programming with meaningful activities. The leadership of the Shea House facilitates multi-cultural and cross-cultural activities to prepare the residents and all associated language students of the UVA community to flourish in a global community. Apply to become part of the 2023-2024 Shea community Oct. 1 - Nov. 1 via the Housing Portal. For information on becoming a Language Assistant click here.

Halloween at Shea 2021

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March 23, 2022

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October 07, 2021

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Our new podcast series about experiences learning new languages and cultures has gone live on Spotify and Anchor. Our first series of episodes will introduce the current Shea LAs (Language Assistants). Stay tuned!

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October 05, 2021

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October 06, 2021

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September 26, 2021

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The application to live in Shea for the 2023-24 academic year will be available here from October 1 - November 1 2022. The Late Application for Shea 2023-2024 academic year will be available here

More information about applying to live in Shea as a resident or a language assistant can be found here.

Shea Trivia

In 2019-20, Shea House had residents from eight language groups: Arabic, ASL, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and Russian.
Shea House is named for A. Vincent Shea, a former vice president at UVA.
Shea House was opened to residents in 2002.
Shea House has a student-led house government.

Shea House

Language Immersion Programs

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First International Bingo Night at Shea 3/23/22 @7pm

The Shea House Podcast Has Gone Live!

September 2021 Shea Newsletter!

Shea House Podcast coming soon...

German Election Day Brunch