Course content rotates among visual art, music and drama with specific topics changing as the course is offered. May be repeated. Students explore a selected era or theme in American history, delving into its political, social and cultural milieu with a particular focus on cultural expression. Through class discussions, lectures, readings, in-class presentations and films, students gain a thorough understanding of the particular era or theme under examination and come to form their own understandings of the intersection of American cultural, social and political history. May be repeated.
Students identify and develop thematic studies based on the needs of their particular classrooms.
Workshops, sponsored by The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center, utilize a noted author, visual artist, composer or performing artist to aid the development of thematic units. Specific attention is devoted to appropriate measurement concepts, quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques, and statistical and qualitative data analysis methods. Formal methods for writing research reports in APA style and the critical evaluation of research are discussed. By the conclusion of the course, each student proposes a plan of research for investigating a problem meaningful to classroom teachers. The proposal becomes a permanent part of the student s file.