academic news New Minors in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
The Lake Erie College School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences has introduced four new minor programs in 2021! Students can now minor in Ethics, Sociology, Photography or African American Studies alongside any major.
Another way LEC students can gain a better understanding of the social world around them and everyday experiences of others is the new sociology minor. It also opens up discovery and the investigation of social issues and problems that impact individuals, groups and larger society. The minor pairs nicely with a wide variety of Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Anthony majors, including psychology, criminal justice, history, Ezzo noticed a growing interest on campus in photography. and political science, but sociology is an area of study that Inspired by the photo studio in Royce Hall for the Fine and complements all majors. Performing Arts and the constantly filled Photography I course, he recommended the addition of a photography Lastly, ethics is a new minor program recently approved. minor to Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities and This interdisciplinary minor will enable students to grapple Social Sciences, Jennifer Swartz-Levine. The minor with the moral and ethical questions that face our society will include a class that dives into traditional black and and that they may encounter in either their personal or white developing technology along with commercial professional lives. Students will explore significant moral photography. The photo minor is a suggested minor for and ethical debates as well as examine how those issues are marketing and visual communication and graphic design connected to and influence contemporary cultural issues. majors. “Given LEC’s history as a female seminary with a strong According to Dr. Swartz-Levine, a number of students commitment to suffrage and abolition, this minor fits the had expressed interest in developing a minor in African institution’s values where ethical behavior is a foundation American Studies over recent years. Wanting to fulfill of our interactions with our student body and with each this desire for further study, she proposed the African other,” Dr. Swartz-Levine said. American Studies minor. Dr. Swartz-Levine wrote up the Education Planning and “Given the Black Lives Matter marches and larger Black Policy proposals to get approval for the new minors in Lives Matter movement that have illuminated issues spring. This fall has seen the launch of ethics, photography and sparked a larger national conversation, LEC has the and African American studies. Sociology launched opportunity to lead by promoting a minor that helps our the previous year. These new programs open up more students think through and engage with events in our opportunities to help LEC students become well-rounded nation’s history that led to the concerns of the current individuals and global citizens. moment,” reads Dr. Swartz-Levine in the course catalog description.
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