majors and programs continued Music recording technology students engineer albums for Vale Records and run live sound for concerts. (p. 20)
Philosophy students develop critical thinking and communication skills by exploring the profound questions about the sources of our values and the nature of reality. (p. 23)
Music business majors annually organize and host LVC’s Vale Music Industry Conference, which attracts music industry professionals from across the country to speak, demonstrate, and mentor. (p. 20) Students in LVC’s six-year doctoral program in physical therapy benefit from such resources as state-of-the-art teaching labs and a therapy pool, and they get hands-on experience working with LVC’s student athletes and community volunteers. (p. 22)
In the Music Education Program, five semesters of fieldwork begin during the first semester of study. (p. 20)
MAJORS continued • Music Business • Music Education • Music Recording Technology • Philosophy • Physical Therapy • Physics • Political Science • Psychobiology
. . . we believe you should be able to explore, experience, and enjoy all that college offers—and finish in four years, ready for a good job or a spot in graduate school. Political science majors study government, international politics, and political systems. Many participate in an EU simulation in DC. (p. 17) Psychobiology students prepare for graduate study and careers in fields including neuroscience, behavioral genetics, medicine, animal behavior, and more. (p. 22) Physics majors work closely with faculty on research and have access to optics, atomic force microscopy, atomic/ nuclear, electronics, computational, and advanced physics labs. (p. 21)
Several sociology majors presented research—including “Occupation and Work Force Inequality” and “Upward Mobility: The Power of Opportunity”—at this year’s national conference of the Eastern Sociological Society. (p. 23)
Many psychology students publish research in professional journals or present findings at conferences, either independently or with faculty mentors. (p. 22)
• Psychology • Religion • Self-designed Major • Sociology • Spanish Students of Spanish at LVC learn by teaching when they work in afterschool programs with local elementary school students who speak Spanish at home. (p. 18) LVC students may create a self-designed major with faculty support. Recent examples: biotechnology and business, chemistry and artifact conservation, environmental economics and policy, and mathematics of finance. Religion students engage in the historical and comparative study of religion with the opportunity to delve into specialized study of a particular tradition from the East or West. (p. 23)