All undergraduate students are expected to earn a total of 2 credits by graduation. Students earn ½ an academic credit for every 15 Arts and Lecture events they attend. At least 1/3 of the Arts and Lecture Credit earned must be from attendance at Tuesday morning Forums.
Students do not register for Arts and Lecture Credit, nor will they be charged for this credit.
FALL 2008 FORUM EVENTS
Tuesdays at 11 a.m.
Founders Hall (unless otherwise noted)
(Additional events will be added to this page as they are approved throughout the semester)
ARTS EVENTS
Expect arts events to last 1.5–2 hours To receive credit, you must attend the entire event.
| Month | Date | Time | Place | Event |
| September | 11 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Artist Series: Toledo Symphony Orchestra |
| October | 16 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Artist Series: Adaskin String Trio |
| October | 19 | 2:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Fall Choral Concert |
| November | 1 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Fall Instrumental Concert |
| November | 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Artist Series: Zagreb Saxophone Quartet |
| November | 12, 13, 14, 15 | 7:30 p.m. | Ramseyer Auditorium | Fall Play: Whatever Kindles by Tricia Gates Brown (Credit given for only one attendance) |
| November | 16 | 2:30 p.m. | Ramseyer Auditorium | Fall Play: Whatever Kindles by Tricia Gates Brown |
| November | 20 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Faculty Recital: Michelle Latour |
| December | 5 | 7:30 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Christmas Choral Concert |
| December | 7 | 4 p.m. | Yoder Recital Hall | Handel's Messiah |
*For Artist Series you must pick up a ticket at the music department office, x3347. Seating is limited. For Winter Choral, Winter Instrumental and Camerata home concerts general admission tickets are required. Call the music department at ext. 3239. ** Call ext. 3239 for May Day Musicial tickets.
FRIDAY COLLOQUIA
4 p.m., Stutzman Lecture Hall, Centennial Hall
| Month | Date | Name/Title | |
| September | 5 |
Michelle Latour, "Eat, Pray, Sing" - Yoder Recital Hall |
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| Septmeber | 26 | Jeff Gundy, "Planes, Trains, Buses, Bikes, Shoe Leather, and an Occasional Auto: Rigorous Scholarly Wanderings in Salzburg and Central Europe" (Note: Date was changed from September 19th to September 26th) | |
| October | 10 | Jim Harder and Karen Klassen Harder, "Bluffton Cross-Cultural Education: Discovering Connections with China" | |
| October | 24 | Chuck Daws, "Designing Sensors From Platinum Compounds Which Change Color, Or If I Knew What I Was Doing It Wouldn't Be Called An Experiment" | |
| November | 7 | Cindy Bandish, "Moral Lessons from 1790s Gothic fiction: A study of Caleb Williams" | |
| November | 21 | Sally Weaver Sommer, "Building Bridges of Understanding between the Peoples of North America and Iran" |
Bluffton University students, faculty, or staff who wish to propose an additional event for arts and lecture credit should contact Gayle Trollinger, Ph.D., associate dean of academic affairs. Include in the proposal a brief rationale as to why the event should count for arts and lecture credit. As they are approved, additional events will appear at this site.
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
This list will be updated regularly with new events
| Date | Time | Event/ Title/ Location | ||
| September 8 | 7 p.m. | Live Music and Spoken Word Performance, "The Promise of the City," Bryan Brown and Michael Sider-Rose, Yoder Recital Hall | ||
| October 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, Yoder Recital Hall | ||
| October 9 | 9 p.m. | Justin McRoberts Concert, Bob's Place | ||
| October 20 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | "Teen Sex and the Law", Juvenile Court Judge Derryberry, Marbeck Center-Krieder Room, sponsored by Social Work Club/Social Science Club | ||
| October 22 | 9 p.m. | Constitution Day Event, sponsored by the Forum Committee, Centennial Hall, Room 211 | ||
| October 23 | 4 p.m. | Lecture/Reading by nonfiction writer Joe Mackall of Ashland University, Musselman Library Reading Room | ||
| October 23 | 2:30 p.m. | **NEW** Presidential Predictions and Picking apart the Polls: A Practical Political Primer for Potential Pundits - Stutzman Lecture Hall, sponsored by the Mathematics Department | ||
| October 28 | 8:00 p.m. | Political Round Table Discussion of the Issues, Yoder Recital Hall, sponsored by Bluffton University Young Democrats and College Republicans | ||
| November 14 | 4:00 p.m. | "CPT: Twenty Years and Counting" by Kathleen Kern, sponsored by Pathways and Bluffton University Theatre, Musselman Library Reading Room | ||
| November 20 | 7:30 p.m. | "From Farm to Table: MCC-UN Seminar Student Presentation on Global Food Security Crisis" - Centennial Room 205 |
