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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Students develop practical pedagogical strategies and curriculum writing skills for integrating the arts in teaching humanities, sciences and other academic subjects; social skills, character and spiritual development and artistic skills. The course focuses on assisting students to gain an understanding of how the arts accommodate cognitive learning styles, and how to engage the metaphoric nature of the arts (art as metaphor) as well as arts-integration methods to enhance learning in any subject. This is an interactive and creative class in which students apply their learning to the design of curricula and lesson plans for artsintegrated projects. Students will deliver their lessons in interactive "teachback" format.
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2.00 Credits
This intensive course introduces the student to the field of creative arts therapy and methods employed in therapeutic interventions. a focus will be given to the specific nature of the arts in healing trauma, and the role of the arts in fostering hope and resilience in young people in crisis or at risk. Specific strategies for arts as healing will be presented. Demonstrations and experiential formats will be utilized. Project required.
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1.00 Credits
This course presents the basic theory and practice of the prophetic and communication role of the arts in society. The two basic fields covered in the course are social commentary and social marketing. The arts are a vehicle for calling an unjust world into justice and righteousness. They also are engaged for social education and marketing. The arts: music, dance, theater, and art, as vehicles of communication by urban prophets throughout history who have used them as persuasive commentary on current urban problems, and calls to a better and just world. Further, it looks at the lives of prophetic artists and explores the unique experiences that thrust them into an urban world with a prophetic message of redemption. The course provides opportunities for critical thinking skills in evaluatingthe art as used in holistic and faith-based community development. Processes for communication, social commentary and political and conflict discourse are considered. A major arts-based project is required.
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1.50 Credits
This course is a practicum emphasizing the formation and oversight of new community development endeavors. Students are expected to work collaboratively with community,church, government and/or para-church organizations to implement the proposed program (or some variations thereof) written in the arts in Social Services class. This practicum includes the implementation of various aspects of leadership including: the knowledge and understanding of needs, casting vision, strategic planning, training, management, and empowerment of volunteers and community members for social change. Students will complete regularly scheduled supervisory dialogues with a skilled supervisor over a period of one semester (immediately following Leadership Practicum 1). additionally, each student will be required to conduct weekly efforts in community organizing. Students are expected to complete a minimum of 115 hours over the course of a semester, including field research, supervisory meetings, project management and implementation time.
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1.50 Credits
This course is a practicum emphasizing the formation and oversight of new community development endeavors. Students are expected to work collaboratively with community, church, government and/or para-church organizations to implement the proposed program (or some variations thereof) written in the arts in Social Services class. This practicum includes the implementation of various aspects of leadership including: the knowledge and understanding of needs, casting vision, strategic planning, training, management, and empowerment of volunteers and community members for social change.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consist of an in-depth study of the solar system, i.e., the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, comets, etc. In the process of this study, we will venture into the fields of the history of science, physics, celestial mechanics, geology, meteorology, and even touch upon astrology. No lab. Satisfies Natural Science Core requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consist of a survey of the universe beyond the solar system, except when we study the sun as a typical star. We will concentrate on stars; what they are, the many different types, their birth, evolution, and death. No lab. Satisfies Natural Science Core requirement.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the solar system, concentrating on the earth and other planets, comets and meteors and origins of the solar system itself. Lab includes several nights of observing and CCD photography in the computerized observatory as well as work in the planetarium.
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0.00 Credits
The Solar System Laboratory
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4.00 Credits
The universe beyond the solar system: stars and galaxies, binary stars, stellar evolution, pulsars, black holes, cosmology. Lab includes several nights of observing and CCD photography in the computerized observatory as well as work in the planetarium.
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