Curriculum Changes
- New Courses
- New Majors/Minors
- Changes in Major/Minor Requirements
- Other Changes
- Course & Major/Minor Deletions
ART 105. Introduction to Asian, African, and Islamic Art
A survey of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts) of Asia, particularly India, China, and Japan, Africa, Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia), and the Islamic world examined within their socio-historical, political, and cultural contexts. Discussions of aesthetics, practical methods of art making, identity, religion, the art market, contact with Western cultures, and the legacy of colonialism.
Hours credit: 3. Alternate years. This is an option in cultural inquiry section in art major with emphasis in art history and museum studies.
General Education: IIIB3
Instructor: Zalewski
ART 106. Animal Drawing
In this course students will draw birds and other live animals. Skeletons of birds, reptiles, and other animals will also serve as our models. Films and field trips will augment this course.
Hours credit: 3.
General Education: IIA2
Instructor: K.Muehlemann
ART 185. Children's Book Illustration
In this course students will develop, paint, and draw characters and creatures as illustrations for children's books. Students will use the children's book collection in Lipscomb Library in researching folk tales and contemporary stories as source material.
Hours credit: 3. One time only. Offered Fall 2013.
General Education: IIA2
Instructor: K.Muehlemann
ART 215. American Art and Architecture
A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture that developed in the United States from the colonial period through World War II. Follows the trajectory of artists' formation of a distinctly "American" style and addresses issues of nationalism, race, and gender. Special use will be made of the works in the Maier Museum of Art. Field trips to local architectural sites.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: ART 101 or 102 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
Replaces ART 213 and ART 214 American Art I-II.
Art major requirement option.
General Education: IIIB1
Instructor: Zalewski
ART/COMM 376. Advanced Digital Filmmaking
This advanced course in the art of digital filmmaking teaches students how to create and tell visual multimedia stories in the digital age by using video, still iamges, time-lapse photography, and audio. Students will study new visual storytelling practices and film art using mobile devices and apps to produce narratives for the web, iPads, and smartphones.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: ART/COMM 279 or permission of the instructor.
General Education: IIA2
Instructor: Duncan
BIOL 385. Topics in Biology
Exploration of topic areas of interest in contemporary biology. The course will draw from areas of interest of enrolled students. Students will critically examine primary literature, and respond to it both verbally and in writing.
Hours credit: 3.0. Prerequisite: At least two, 200-level courses or permission of the instructor. One time only.
Instructor: Bliss
CLAS 110S. Archaeological Conservation
The course engages students in the discovery, appreciation, and preservation of tangible cultural heritage. It combines the study of principles and best practices of conservation and archaeology with hands-on experience with ancient artifacts, and technology in the laboratories of the Centro di conservazione archeologica in Belmonte in Sabina, Italy, and in the University of Sassari excavations of a late Bronze Age Nuraghic village at Sant'Imbenia, Sardinia.
Hours credit: 2, 3, or 4. May be repeated a second time for up to a maximum of eight hours.
Instructor: Stevens
CLAS/ENGL 274. Ancient Poetry in Translation
A survey of the major genres of ancient Greek and Roman poetry, including epic, lyric, drama, and satire. Texts will be read in English translation.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: ENGL 103, ENGL 113, or permission of the department. One time only.
General Education: IIA1
Instructor: Kardan
COMM 213. Newspaper Production Lab (change in credits)
This course offers practical experience in all aspects of college newspaper production, including interviewing, investigation, reporting, AP style, copy editing, and use of digital publishing software. Students in this class are primarily responsible for the regular production of The Sundial, the college newspaper.
Hours credit: 1 or 2, determined in consultation with the instructor. Prerequisite or corequisite: COMM 211 or 212 or permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of six credits. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis only.
COMM 214. Newspaper Production Editor
This course offers practical experience as a newspaper production editor, including newspaper and staff management, supervision and mentorship of staff writers and reporters, oversight of newspaper sections, story editing, copyediting, digital layout and design, new media coordination, and public relations. This class is intended for students who serve as editor-in-chief, managing editor, or section editor of The Sundial, the college newspaper.
Hours credit: 2 or 3, determined in consultation with the instructor. Prerequisite: COMM 211 or 212 plus 3 credit hours of COMM 213 or permission of the instructor. COMM 213 and COMM 214 together may be repeated for credit up to a maximum of nine credits. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis only.
COMM 231. Latin American Media
A survey of Latin American media, such as film, radio, television, journalism, advertising, and digital media. Topics may include media industries and globalization, national and regional identity, political and social conflict, democracy and modernity, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and social class.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIIB3
Instructor: Beck
COMM 332. Digital Media Studies
A survey of the history, theory, and contemporary manifestations of digital media. Course topics are digital journalism and democracy, media industries and media convergence, social media and online communities, new media and political activism, and digital aesthetics and cultural identity.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIIB4
Option in Multimedia Journalism Minor
Instructor: Beck
COMM 334. Journalism and New Media
Examination of journalism and new media forms, e.g., newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the internet, and mobile phones. Investigation of contested conceptions of journalism as an objective, political, and commercial entertainment medium, as a radical, popular form for self-representation and citizen journalism, and as self-expression by marginalized groups, such as ethnic minority news, women's and feminist journalism, and the GLBT press. Case studies from local and global contexts.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIIB4
Option in Multimedia Journalism Minor
Instructor: Beck
COMM/G ST 374. Feminist Theory
This course will examine feminist theory from a variety of different perspectives including media studies, philosophy, sociology, rhetoric and linguistics. The class will augment theoretical readings with both historical and contemporary cultural texts such as literature, film, music video, art, and oratory. Students will engage with such issues as women in the media, women and language, women and politics, the body, and technology. The class will also explore how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, and national identity.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisites: G ST 201 or G ST 203 or COMM 301, or permission of the instructor. One time only.
General Education: IIIA
Instructor: Gauthier
EDUC 472P. Action Research Field Placement
Curricular Studies majors entering the M.A.T. graduate program will take this course instead of EDUC 493. Students will design and implement an action research project in a local school. The project requires students to work with a classroom teacher on the design process. Only open to students entering the graduate program.
Hours credit: 2. Prerequisite: acceptance into Teacher Education Program. Corequisite: CRST 494.
Instructor: Schimmoeller/Staff
EVST 394. Research Topics in Environmental Science
The student will participate in a research project in environmental science in conjunction with a faculty member, in an area of mutual interest. Research projects will vary from semester to semester, and with different faculty members. The student will gain experience in research and problem solving methods, and refine laboratory and field techniques. Research results are written up in formal lab reports and in some cases will be published and/or presented at local, regional, or national conferences. Hours credit: 1, 2, or 3. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of nine hours.
Instructor: Staff
FYS 101. First-Year Seminar
First-year seminars capitalize on the power of inquiry in the liberal arts and sciences. Course content varies by professor and section, with each section dealing with a topic in the professor's field of interest, and is designed to suggest the kinds of questions educated adults can and should ask in that field. The seminars immerse students in an engaging and challenging atmosphere where they learn to take responsibility for their own educational endeavors. This course serves as a General Education requirement (I D: Skills).
Hours credit: 2.
FYS 103,104. First-Year Passport
Hours credit: .5. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis only.
General Education: ID
HIST 137. North America From the Ice Age to Now
Even before there was a United States, Americans wanted to be different, and longed to be special. But what did that entail? What would America mean, and stand for? What would being an American require? This survey of American history ponders the struggle-always passionate, sometimes bloody, and never complete-to answer those questions. Along the way we will learn about what is vital in America's past, what we should consider when we think about America, and what it all has to do with us.
Hours credit: 3.
General Education: IIB1 or IIIB1
Advising note: This course is open to all student except Randolph students who have taken all three parts of the current sequence (HIST 133-34-35) and transfer students who have taken both parts of a two course sequence.
Instructor: d'Entremont
HIST 240. The American Civil War and Reconstruction
The Civil War was not something that happened to us; it was something we did to ourselves. In this course we explore why a rational, idealistic people slid into this fratricidal barbarism that killed one out of every fifty Americans. We think about slavery's impact and legacy. We ponder the concept of a "good war." We consider what the war and its aftermath solved, worsened, and bequeathed to us, undone.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIB1 or IIIB1
Instructor: d'Entremont
I ST 121. Survey of Latin America
This interdisciplinary course surveys the rich, diverse region of Latin America. Topics may include art, biodiversity, culture, economics, film, history, literature, media, music, politics, religion, and society.
Hours credit: 3.0.
General Education: IIIIB3
Instructors: Beck, Dugan, or Halka
I ST 187. African Diaspora Archaeology
This course explores key sites and debates in the historical archaeology of the African Diaspora. This involves understanding landscapes, towns and trading settlements, individual building, burials and specific artifacts. The class will critically review the analysis of "Africanisms", religious practices, foodways, gender, and the impact of race, racism, and ethnicity through case studies in West Africa, North America, and the Caribbean.
Hours credit: 3. One time only. Offered Fall 2013.
General Education: IIC and IIIB3
Instructor: Lee
I ST 287. Culture and Community
This course will explore the dynamics between culture and community in greater Lynchburg by focusing on two case studies: the Anne Spencer House and Gardens and Poplar Forest. Students will not only learn about, but also contribute to what we know about these historically significant institutions through engaging in oral history research, historical research, and material culture analysis.
Hours credit: 3. One time only. Offered Fall 2013.
General Education: IIC and IIIB1
Instructor: Lee
LATN 204. Latin Teaching Lab
An opportunity for students to develop their language teaching skills as Latin teachers for elementary school students. Students write lesson plans according to best practices and in consultation with the instructors they teach one class a week in an elementary school. The course will foster students' teaching skills, provide students with mentoring from the instructors as well as from the elementary school teachers, and will give students an unusual chance to improve their Latin in the classroom.
Hours credit: 1. Prerequisite: LATN 201 or permission of the instructor. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis only. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of four hours.
LATN 307. Roman Satire
An introduction to the Roman satirical poetry of Horace, Juvenal, and Persius.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: LATN 202 or permission of the department.
General Education: IIA1
Instructor: Kardan/Stevens
MUSC 186S. Summer Choral Festival
Participation as a performing choister in professional-level international music festival. Student experience will include attendance at opera, orchestral, and/or choral performances, as well as performance of a large amount of choral repertoire under a variety of professional conductors.
Hours credit: 1. Offered on a Pass/Fail basis only. One time only. Offered Summer 2013.
General Education: IIA2
Instructor: Speer
P ED 116. Disc Golf
The course will utilize Randolph's disc golf course to offer a fun activity and promote lifetime physical fitness.
Hours credit: .5
General Education: IV
PED 118. Organic Gardening
The organic gardening activity course will introduce students to some organic gardening principles while improving students’ physical well-being through the undertaking of varied physical tasks. Gardening can improve endurance, flexibility, strength, and general wellness. Students will use a wide array of gardening tools. Proper ergonomics of garden tool use will be addressed. Physical activities could include: bed digging, weeding, planting, turning compost, splitting wood, hauling wood chips, clearing trails and overgrown areas, building and raising a fence, mowing pathways.
Hours credit: 0.5.
General Education: IV
Instructor: Lemaitre
P ED 134. Tai Chi
Tai chi is a form of Chinese martial art utilized for health benefits, meditation, and defense training. The activity focuses on the use of slow coordinated movements to improved joint leverage, balance, and mental clarity.
Hours credit: 0.5.
General Education: IV
Instructor: (adjunct instructor)
P ED 263. Sports Management
The course will involve a study of sport industry roles and functions including collegiate, high school, professional, youth, and community sport settings. Areas of content include facility and event management, risk management, marketing, financing, sponsorship, communications, and legal and ethical issues as they pertain to sport industry settings.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor.
Instructor: Cubbage
P ED 361. Kinesiology
This course examines human anatomy and function of the musculoskeletal systems and mechanical aspects of human movement analysis as it relates to physical activity, exercise, and sport. Students will be able to analyze joint actions, muscle actions, and mechanical principles that apply to specific sport and exercise movements.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: BIOL 108/100L.
P ED 362. Exercise Testing and Prescription
This course prepares students in developing knowledge and skills to effectively administer health appraisals and fitness tests in measuring cardiovascular endurance, muscular fitness, flexibility, and body composition in varied populations of healthy individuals. Topics include medical/health screening, exercise program development, and related discussions on diabetes, pregnancy, coronary heart disease, arthritis, low back pain, children, and the elderly in exercise assessment and prescription.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisites: P ED 163 and P ED 261.
P ED 420. Indoor Track Team
Indoor track is available for credit for intercollegiate athletes who are participants on Randolph College's indoor track team.
Hours credit: 0.5
General Education: IV
Instructor: Cooper
P ED 422. Outdoor Track Team
Outdoor track is available for credit for intercollegiate athletes who are participants on Randolph College's outdoor track team.
Hours credit: 0.5
General Education: IV
Instructor: Cooper
P ED 494. Senior Seminar
Students will explore readings and engage in discussions on current trends in sport and exercise studies. Students orally present a literature review paper on a topic area of interest in relation to sport and exercise studies.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: senior standing.
PHYS 101S. Step-Up to Physical Science and Engineering at Randolph (SUPER)
This course is a lab/lecture course in which students will study physics and applied mathematics at the level of pre-calculus or calculus, depending on the level of the student enrolled. In the lab portion, students will study robotics and do a building project. This is an intensive class for new students and will meet for 45 hours over two weeks prior to August orientation.
Hours credit: 3. Offered in the summer prior to the start of the fall semester.
General Education: IB
Instructors: varies
PHYS 256. Green Engineering Design
Energy crisis. Rising gas prices. Climate change. Massive oil spills. Advances in Technology. Green engineering has been around since humans started using tools, but a confluence of events in the past decade has made green engineering one of the fastest growing fields in the United States. Students will be given a chance to see first-hand how engineers design power plants, buildings and transportation to be cleaner and more energy efficient. The class will visit power plants, manufacturers, and buildings that use innovative and environmentally conscious design. Students will design and build their own scale cars, and will work with the Cub Scouts' Pinewood Derby and the Randolph College Science Festival.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: one semester of any science.
Short Description: Rising gas prices. Climate change. Massive oil spills. Green engineering has been around since humans started using tools, but a confluence of events has made green engineering one of the fastest growing fields in the United States. Students will be given a chance to see first- hand how engineers design power plants, buildings and transportation to be cleaner and more energy efficient.
Instructor: Sheldon
POL 226. Public Policy Analysis
This is an entry-level course on federal domestic policy making in the United States. In the first half of the course students will discuss the theory of public policy analysis, focusing on the influence of institutional norms and rules, interest groups, and the public. The second half of the course will consist of a series of case studies of domestic policy issues. Topics may include social security, health care, employment discrimination, criminal justice, and/or anti-poverty policy. Students will pay particular attention to how individuals and institutions interpret policy questions differently as a result of their position in society.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIC or IIIB1
POL 228. The US Congress and Presidency
This is an intermediate course on institutional politics in the United States, focusing on the behavior of members of Congress and presidents. Students will examine how the organization, rules, and norms of Congress influence both the individual behavior of congresspersons as well as legislative agendas and outcomes. The class will examine how presidents use the institutional advantages of the White House to pursue policy goals. Particular attention will be paid to conflicts between the three branches and how congresspersons, presidents, and judges attempt to enact favored policies.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIC or IIIB1
POL 231. Research Methods in Political Science
This course familiarizes students with a variety of techniques for the investigation of political problems. The first half of the semester is an exploration of how to ask and answer social science questions. In the second half of the course students gain hands-on experience using statistical software to investigate and describe political problems. No prior familiarity with statistics is assumed.
Hours credit: 3. A student may receive credit for only one of these courses: POL 231, MATH 227, PSYC 227, SOC 295, or SOC 396.
General Education: IB
Instructor: Vecera
POL 287 Modern Political Communication
An exploration of twentieth century political communication. Students will discuss how political actors persuade and propagandize in liberal and totalitarian governments. Readings will be drawn from contemporary research in political science, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.
Hours credit: 3.0. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. One time only.
Instructor: Vecera
PSYC 105R. Introduction to Psychology
This course will survey basic principles of psychology. Topics include history of psychology, research methods, neuroscience and behavior, nature, nurture, development through the lifespan, thinking and language, psychological disorders, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, memory, emotions, and social psychology. Additional topics could include: motivation, personality, intelligence, health/stress, therapy.
Hours credit: 3. Not open to students who have taken PSYC 101 or 102.
General Education: IIC
Instructor: All faculty in the Psychology Department
RELG 147. Religions of Asia
This course provides a thematic and historical overview of Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto in the three cultural regions of India, China, and Japan. Focusing on the major themes of each religion, students examine how some traditions developed in dialogue with each other, while others crystallized into distinct traditions in reaction to each other.
Hours credit: 3.
Replaces RELG 228
General Education: IIB2 or IIIB3
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 148. Tibet: Religion in the Land of Snows
This course surveys religious practices and beliefs on the Tibetan Plateau. Using both thematic and historical approaches, students examine how the interaction of folk beliefs, Buddhism, and the native Bon religion led to the creation of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan practices of monasticism, pilgrimage, meditative techniques, writing, and death rituals will also be discussed.
Hours credit: 3.
General Education: IIB2 or IIIB3
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 168. Death, Dying, and Other Opportunities
What happens after we die? Is death an end, an interruption, or a beginning? How should the living relate to the dead? This course explores several Asian religions’ answers to these questions. By surveying a variety of beliefs, rituals, and cultural practices about death and the afterlife, this course demonstrates how views about death intimately shape our understanding of life.
Hours credit: 3.0. Alternate years.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 218. Buddhism in Film
This course explores the themes and treatment of Buddhism through international cinema. Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Rotating.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 238. No God But Allah
What is Islam? Concerned about shari’a? In love with Rumi? Angry with Orientalists? An introduction to the symbolic world and enduring venture of ‘Islam,’ to the shared grounds of all subsequent historical expressions of Islam and to alternative paradigms of authority and interpretation that underlie the historically and culturally diverse expressions of Islam. Readings from the Qur’an, Rumi, Edward Said, Tayeb Salih, Ziauddin Sardar, Fatima Mernissi, and others.
Hours credit: 3.0. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Steffey
RELG 248. Bhakti to Bollywood
This course uses narratives from fiction and film to examine the currents, concerns, and conflicts of Hinduism as it is practiced in the contemporary world. Topics to be examined include caste and class, brahmanical and renouncer traditions, religious pluralism, women and gender, diaspora, and the continuing relevance of the great epics such as the Ramayana.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 267. Buddhist Saints
This course critically examines the phenomenon of sainthood in Buddhism, paying particular attention to the practices of writing, about both self and other, in Buddhists contexts. Beginning with life stories of Buddha Shakyamuni, students use a selection of translated Buddhist auto/biographies as lenses through which to examine what is considered an exemplary "Buddhist" life.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Rotating.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 268. Gendering Enlightenment
The historian Caroline Walker Bynum wrote, "Religious experience is the experience of men and women, and in no known society is this experience the same." Taking this claim as our point of departure, this interdisciplinary course uses scholarship from the fields of religious studies, anthropology, and gender studies to examine both philosophical conceptions of gender and the status of historical women in the Buddhist cultures of India, Tibet, East Asia, and the United States.
Hours credit: 3.0. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIB2 and IIIA
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 270. Buddhism
This course provides an historical overview of the various forms of Buddhism-Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāyāna Buddhism, and Vajrayāna Buddhism-and their manifestations in the cultures of India, China, Japan, Tibet, and America. Analyzing the internal logic of this religious tradition, this class will explore the construction of meaning, value, and moral vision within each form of Buddhism.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor.
General Education: IIB2 or IIIB3
Instructor: Bessenger
RELG 302. Liberating Theologies
"When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises" (Archbishop Oscar Romero). This course investigates multiple formulations of the so-called 'theology of liberation' in primarily Latin American contexts. Special focus on the relation between theory and praxis, modes of economic and social analysis, (re)constructions of God, and theological/political models of solidarity with and empowerment of 'disenfranchised' persons and communities.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
General Education: IIB2
Instructor: Steffey
RELG 348. Gendering Enlightenment
"Religious experience is the experience of men and women, and in no known society is this experience the same." Carolyn Bynum. This interdisciplinary course examines the role and status of women in historical and contemporary Buddhist cultures of India, Tibet, East Asia, and the United States, using scholarship from the fields of religious studies, anthropology, and gender studies.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor.
General Education: IIB2 or IIIA
Instructor: Bessenger
SOC 262 TOPIC: Human Populations and Contemporary Issues
The most challenging problems in the world are tied to changes in human populations, and the future quality of life on our planet depends on how people address those demographic changes. This topic is an introduction to population processes such as fertility, rapid world population growth and migration, and to human geography. Issues addressed include globalization, urbanization, human trafficking, conflict, geopolitics, and environmental change.
Hours credit: 3.0. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or SOC 101, SOC 114. One time only.
General Education: IIIB4
Instructor: Bullock
SOC 231. America at the Margins
An examination of the social construction of difference in late 20th and early 21st century America. This course focuses on social groups and communities that live on the physical and metaphorical borders of American culture such as addicts, queers, criminals, and illegal immigrants. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which their presence shapes contemporary ideological discourse.
Hours credit: 3. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Alternate years.
General Education: IIIB1
Instructor: Rodriguez
Curriculum and Instruction Minor in the Education Department
The minor in curriculum and instruction provides an opportunity for non-education students to enroll in a sequence of education courses that will introduce them to the teaching profession. The minor incorporates courses in student development, in issues in American public education, in the importance of multicultural education across the curriculum, and in pedagogical foundations in teaching the core subjects in today's schools. Students will develop skills and understandings for effectively guiding students in grades preK-12. Practical application of theories and principles of learning are provided through field experiences at the elementary or secondary level. The field placement will be made in consultation with a faculty member.
Requirements for the minor:
| Course | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| EDUC 101 | Foundations of Education | 3 |
| EDUC 108 | Education Psychology and Classroom Management | 3 |
| EDUC 213 | Dimensions of a Global Society and Multicultural Education | 3 |
| EDUC 315 | Curriculum and Instruction preK-12 | 3 |
| EDUC 315P | Practicum in Curriculum and Instruction | 1 |
| EDUC 361 | Survey of Special Education | 3 |
| Total for Minor in Curriculum and Instruction | 16 | |
| NOTE: prerequisites for EDUC 315-315P will change to not require program admission. | ||
Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
An understanding of Latin America and proficiency in the Spanish language are increasingly critical for work and life in the United States and elsewhere. The Latin American Studies minor is interdisciplinary and enables students to explore the political, social, economic, religious, communicative, and cultural diversity of the region, while helping to prepare students for graduate school or careers requiring Spanish competency and a knowledge of Latin America. Students may satisfy the language requirement for this minor by successful completion of either Intermediate Spanish or Spanish Composition and Conversation. Careful planning and advising are encouraged in order to accommodate prerequisites for Spanish courses and other courses listed below. The minor is available to students of all majors.
Requirements for the Minor
| Course | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| I ST 121 | Survey of Latin America | 3 |
| One of the following: | 6 | |
| SPAN 201, 202 | Intermediate Spanish | |
| SPAN 301, 302 | Composition and Conversation | |
| Three of the following (courses from at least two departments):* | 9 | |
| COMM 231 | Latin American Media | |
| ECON 246 | Economics of Latin America | |
| POL 215 | Human Rights in the Latin American Context | |
| RELG 302 | Liberating Theologies | |
| SOC 335 | Developing Countries of the Caribbean Basin | |
| SPAN 231 or 431 | Modern Latin American Literature | |
| SPAN 335 | Topics in Latin American Culture | |
| SPAN 366 | Approaches to Hispanic Literature | |
| SPAN 422 | Topics in Hispanic Literature (appropriate topic) | |
| Total for Minor in Latin American Studies | 18 | |
| *With Coordinator approval, a study abroad, one-time only, tri-college, or other appropriate course may be substituted. Not more than one of the electives use for the Latin American Studies minor can be used to satisfy major requirements. | ||
Multimedia Journalism Minor in the Department of Communication Studies
The Multimedia Journalism minor prepares students to engage in the changing world of journalism in a new era defined by multimedia technologies and media convergence. Blending history, theory, and practice, this minor gives students a firm grounding in media studies and develops their professional skills. The minor complements any major at the college, allowing students the opportunity to produce their own journalism work and leave with a portfolio of materials to show prospective employers during their job search. Students can pair course offerings in the Communication Studies Department with a variety of co-curricular activities such as writing for The Sundial, the campus newspaper; working with WWRM, the campus radio station; helping to plan the Driver Film and Lecture Series and pursuing internships at both local and national media outlets. In the past, students have interned at our local ABC affiliate, WSET; Lynchburg Living, a local lifestyle magazine; Zohe Films, documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox's production company; and NBC Universal in Washington, DC.
Requirements for the Minor*
| Course | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| COMM 102 | Introduction to Mass Media | 3 |
| COMM 111 | Introduction to Communication & Cultural Studies | 3 |
| COMM 213 | Newspaper Production Lab | 3 |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| COMM 211 | News Reporting | |
| COMM 212 | Feature Writing | |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| ART/COMM 181 | Photography | |
| ART/COMM 279 | Digital Filmmaking | |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| COMM 330 | News Media in the Information Age | |
| COMM 432 | Issues in Global Communication | |
| Total for Minor in Multimedia Journalism | 18 | |
| *In addition, an approved internship at a media outlet is strongly recommended. Students interested in broadcasting may also consider taking COMM 241, American Radio and Television. | ||
Sport and Exercise Studies Major
The sport and exercise studies program focuses on introducing students to a framework of knowledge in areas supporting sport and exercise studies. A broad intellectual base challenges our students to explore foundations of human movement, personal health and fitness, and sport administration, with multi-dimensional courses such as kinesiology, motor development, exercise physiology, sport nutrition, exercise testing and prescription, sport management, and sport sociology. The integration of our classroom, laboratory, and field experiences with the college's general education program provides a well-rounded liberal arts education experience.
Graduates are prepared for master's programs in exercise science, kinesiology, health promotion, wellness management, athletic training, athletic administration, sport psychology, sport sociology, and therapeutic recreation, as well as careers in community, clinical, and corporate sport and exercise settings. A senior capstone and internship component are significant aspects of the educational experiences. In culmination of the senior year, students will orally present a literature review paper of a topic of interest in sport and exercise studies. The required internship experience allows the students to gain first-hand experience in a discipline of choice related to sport and exercise studies.
Students are encouraged to supplement the sport and exercise studies major with a minor that supports their discipline of interest. Minors in biology, business, dance, communication studies, psychology, or sociology provide additional opportunities to expand knowledge in areas supporting sport and exercise studies.
Requirements for the Major:
| Courses | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| BIOL 108-100LR | Human Biology and Lab | 4 |
| BIOL 203-203L | Physiology and Lab | 4 |
| P ED 143 | First Aid and Safety | 2 |
| P ED 163 | Concepts of Lifetime Fitness & Nutrition | 3 |
| P ED 165 | Lifetime Wellness | 3 |
| P ED 261 | Exercise Physiology | 3 |
| P ED 263 | Sport Management | 3 |
| P ED 307 | Motor Learning and Development | 3 |
| P ED 361 | Kinesiology | 3 |
| P ED 362 | Exercise Testing and Prescription | 3 |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| P ED 161 | Introduction to Athletic Training | |
| P ED 264 | Evaluation of Athletic Injuries | |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| P ED 166 | Sport Psychology | |
| P ED 205 | Sporting American: A Cultural History | |
| Activity classes: | ||
| DANC 131/132 or DANC 141/142 |
Elementary Dance Technique or Ballet | 1 |
| P ED 114 | Aquatic Fitness and Conditioning | .5 |
| P ED 117 or P ED 217 |
Weight Training or Advanced Strength & Conditioning |
.5 |
| Senior Seminar and Internship Experiences | ||
| P ED 494 | Senior Seminar | 3 |
| Experiential Learning in an appropriate area1 | 1-3 | |
| Total for B.A. Degree in Sport and Exercise Studies | 43-45 | |
| 1Internships must be pre-approved by the Chair of Physical Education. The internship experience must be completed second semester junior or first semester senior year. Summer internships between junior and senior year are also acceptable. | ||
Changes in Major/Minor Requirements:
- Art with Emphasis in Art History & Museum Studies: Replace "Experiential Learning (EX L) at the Maier or area museum" with "Experiential Learning (EX L) in a pre-professional internship or ART 315".
- Art with Emphasis in Studio: Require ART 264, High Renaissance Art and Architecture; give option of either ART 244, Modern European Art or ART 257, Post-War and Contemporary Art; change statement "One of the following:" to "One of the following not selected from above:" (see declaration form for specific course options).
- Asian Studies Minor: Bottom grouping now includes RELG 148, RELG 248, RELG 270, and RELG 348. NOTE at bottom also changed to read: "The student must complete at least one course in political science and one course in relgious studies"
- BFA Program: I ST 393R for 3 credits; I ST 495R for 1 credit; delete I ST 496.
- Environmental Studies BA and Environmental Science BS: Replace EVST/PHYS 376 with EVST/PHYS 378.
- Enviromental Studies BA: Add PHYS 256 to the "Natural Science" elective list. Add POL 226 to the "Social Science" elective list.
- Environmental Science BS: Change the requirement to MATH 149 and either MATH 150 or MATH 227.
- Global Studies: Fifteen hours of the courses in the major, including POL 496, must be completed in residence at Randolph College.
- Music BA, BFA, and Minor: 1) Change MUSC 493, 494 Senior Seminar, Senior Paper from 2 credits to 3 credits; 2) Delete MUSC 317; add 1 credit of MUSC 172R as an ensemble choice; 3) Change to BFA: "Students accepted to the degree perform both a sophomore and a senior recital"; 4) Total credits needed for BA: 33-35; BFA: 61-62; 5)For minor, clarify that the additional music course excludes MUSC 103.
- Physics BS: Add a grouping "Two of the Following" and include PHYS 351, PHYS 371, and EVST/PHYS 378.
- Political Science: 1) Fifteen hours of the courses in the major, including POL 495, must be completed in residence at Randolph College; 2) Add POL 226 Public Policy Analysis to one of the selection choices for American Politics minor; 3) Add POL 231 as a requirement; 4) Add POL 231 as requirement for the major.
- Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Minor: 1) Move HIST 205 to "One of the following:" with HIST 101; 2) Add footnote to ART/ENGL 378.
- Sociology Major and Minor: 1) Replace SOC 396 with SOC 295 as the required research methods course; 2) Add SOC 396 as a major requirement; 3) Remove Gender Studies (G ST) course option for minor.
- Sport & Exercise Studies Minor: 1) Add BIOL 203 as an "either/or" option with the BIOL 108 current requirement. The student will not be able to count both BIOL 108 and BIOL 203 towards the minor; 2) Add P ED 263 as a choice.
ART/COMM 181. Introduction to Digital Photography
An introduction to the aesthetics and techniques of digital photography. Techniques include depth of field, lens choice, aperture settings, exposure, and use of software. Students will develop their creative vision, conceptualization skills, and technical proficiency, leading to a portfolio.
Hours credit: 3.0.
General Education: IIA2
Previously: ART/COMM 181 Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Duncan
Change in Language for Transfer Credit
Current catalog statement (from page 88 of the 2010-2011 version). The suggested change would come at the end and is underlined: Current students interested in pursuing summer school course work or other off-campus work should note the following in selecting courses and assessing credit potential. Each course taken needs to be approved in advance by the student's faculty advisor(s) and by the Registrar. Approval is obtained by completing a Transfer of Credit Approval Form available in the Registrar's Office. A course not approved in advance may or may not be approved. Following initial entry, an undergraduate student may transfer a maximum of 18 semester hours of credit earned in summer school, through part-time off-campus study, and through online course work toward the Randolph College degree requirements (modern language courses must have an acceptable oral/aural component).
Chemistry Department
The following prerequisite has been removed: A student must earn a grade in the C range or better iin CHEM 105 to enroll in CHEM 106.
Communication Studies Department
COMM 204, Communication Technologies and Culture has been changed to General Education: IIIB4.
COMM 432, Global Media and Communication, General Education: IIIB3 or IIIB4
Music Department
MUSC 133LR, Choral Sight Singing has been changed to MUSC 103LR, Basic Musicianship
Physical Education Department
P ED 163 has been renamed Concepts of Fitness and Nutrition and the IV general education designation has been removed. The revised course description is: The course will look at general nutrition with special emphasis looking at how food intake choices relate to exercise performance. Special issues such as diabetes, food allergies, protein, vitamin and mineral supplementation, weight control, and fad diets will be discussed.
Course & Major/Minor Deletions:
ART 213, 214 American Art I, II
COMM 330 News Media in the Information Age
Computer Science Minor
CSCI 211 Data Structures
CSCI 249 Computer Organization and Assembly Language
CSCI 354 Principles of Programming Languages
CSCI 364 Operating Systems
EVST/PHYS 376 Environmental Geophysics
HIST 133 North American History to 1800
HIST 134 US History 1800-1900
HIST 135 US History Since 1900
I ST 107 First Year Seminar
I ST 109 Intro to Black Studies
I ST 123 Topics: Fall Symposium
I ST 205 Archaeology of Slavery
I ST 496 Senior Fine Arts Colloquium
MATH 208 Concepts of Elementary School Mathematics
MUSC 317 Studies in Twentieth-Century Music History and Theory
Physical Education and Health Major
P ED 107 Mountain Biking
P ED 113 Fitness and Conditioning
P ED 343 Lifeguard Training
RELG 115 Religion in America
RELG 208 Religious Ethics and the Public Square
RELG 228 The Religions of Asia
RELG 276 The Bible and the Compass: Renaissance and Reformation Europe
RELG 348 Gendering Enlightenment
SPAN 105-106 Elementary Review Spanish
Updated 3/21/2013
