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A survey of the Anabaptist movement and Mennonites throughout the world from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries. Issues include pacifism, wealth, political participation, community and tensions between faith and the dominant culture. Particular attention is given to the Anabaptist vision and its relevance for 21st century American life. (HIST 365) (Spring 2023) Core: CW
CHST 372 Church Leadership for Transformation (3 SH)
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A survey of the Anabaptist movement and Mennonites throughout the world from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries. Issues include pacifism, wealth, political participation, community and tensions between faith and the dominant culture. Particular attention is given to the Anabaptist vision and its relevance for 21st-century American life. (CHST 365) (Spring 2023) Core: CW
HIST 391 Birth of Modernity in Europe (3 SH)
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Teacher candidates will focus on skill themes and movement concepts as well as qualitative assessment skills needed to successfully teach pre-school through fifth grade physical education. The process will enable physical educators to successfully structure the development of physically literate students. This course must be taken as part of the elementary physical education professional block and includes a 60 hour practicum (also includes PE 401). Course prerequisites: ED 101, 251, PE 301, and 302. Admission prerequisites: First semester of block courses: Admission to Teacher Education recommended, 2.7 cumulative GPA and the entry assessment math score required. Second semester of block courses: Admission to Teacher Education required. (Fall 2022)
PEV 151-
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165 Varsity Sports
Students may earn one semester hour of elective credit per season for participation on a varsity athletics team or for serving as an athletic trainer. These credits receive pass-fail grading. Requirements include starting and finishing the season on the team, being an active team member in good standing, and completing an acceptable reflection paper on the selected topic. Students whose course load already includes 18 SH will be required to pay an overload fee to receive PEV credit.
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SPAN 210 Intermediate Spanish I (3 SH)
This courses course focuses on conversational themes. Students will increase oral and written fluency, cultural understanding, and compare Hispanic culture to their own native culture. The course engages learners in speaking, listening, and writing activities based on communicative and task-based approaches to reinforce and review core functional-linguistic structures (narrating in the present and past tenses; expressing beliefs, opinions and other discourse tasks; distinguishing between verbs "ser" and "estar"; expressing likes and dislikes; giving commands and/or guidelines; talking about real, imagined, and future events). Students discuss short films and cultural readings and regularly attend conversation sessions with a native-speaker language assistant. This course is typically appropriate for students who have had three or four years of high school Spanish. Prerequisite: SPAN 120, SPAN 130 or equivalent. Core: CC
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Building on the foundation of ceramics, students are challenged to expand their vocabulary of ceramic form and function. Hand building and wheel throwing techniques will be explored for both vessel and sculptural work. Technical understanding of surface treatments, firing techniques, glaze formulation, and ceramic processes are emphasized as tools used toward formal and conceptual success. Students have the opportunity to pursue more individual concerns in tandem with class directed assignments. In conjunction with increased technical proficiency, students will expand critical awareness through the investigation of conceptual, historical and contemporary art issues, ultimately increasing professionalism and the development of a personal aesthetic. Prerequisite: VACA 232.
VACA 335 Installation and Experimental Media (4 SH)
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n this course students will explore how installation and experimental art immerses the viewer in a multi-sensory experience. Through both traditional and nontraditional media such as photography, video, painting, ceramics, sculpture, etc., students will explore the impact of materials and techniques on form, content and the expressive possibilities of various materials on a space. Through experimentation, boundaries of traditional art practices will be challenged to transform the perception of space. (Spring 2024)
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Further development of techniques and visual strategies using oil and acrylic media. The capacity to change one's perspective and habits and an openness to taking risks are encouraged to understand the various ways artists approach structure and meaning in painting. Advanced investigation into physical, intellectual and emotional aspects of painingpainting. Content development, individual direction and creative voice are stressed along with further development of painting skills. This course should be taken in the junior or senior year as a lead-in to VACA 481 Senior Thesis. This course should be taken in the junior or senior year as a lead-in to VACA 481 Senior Thesis. Prerequisite: VACA 222.
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In Advanced Ceramics 2, students will develop a body of work suitable for exhibition. Research and experimentation from an array of materials and processes such as wheel and hand building methods, unique firing processes, glaze chemistry, and clay body foundation will be used toward formal and conceptual success. In conjunction with increased technical proficiency, students will investigate conceptual, historical, and contemporary art issues to increase professionalism and develop a personal aesthetic. This course should be taken in the junior or senior year as a lead-in to VACA 481 Senior Thesis. Prerequisite: VACA 432.
VACA 450 Junior/Senior
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Portfolio and Vocation (2 SH)
This capstone photography class offers the opportunity for students to develop an artistic and vocational vision. Students will create a coherent body of work for print/exhibition and web display and will investigate career options related to photographytheir discipline. Photography majors (and others who plan to exhibit) VACA majors should take Junior/Senior Photography Portfolio and Vocation in the fall semester of the last full year they are on campus. They should plan to take VACA 481 Senior Thesis and Exhibition the next semester (where they will exhibit and write about the work they developed in portfolio class). Prerequisites: VACA 151 and VACA 252. (Fall 2023)
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Students will study the narrative structure of video story-telling and the process of narrative video production. They will work at creating a variety of short form narratives and will complete independent projects from pre-production to postproduction. Scripts for this class will be created in THR 361 which should be taken the semester prior to this class. Prerequisite: VACA 262. (Spring 2024)
VACA 481 Junior/Senior Thesis and Exhibition (2 SH)
This course explores professional practices related to preparation and installation of the major senior exhibit as well as development of a thesis paper. Students take this class in conjunction with a capstone course in their major.
VACA 491 Internship (1-4 SH)
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