Arts Certificate to be offered in 2003
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a new Homewood Arts Program certificate for students involved in the arts.
- The News-Letter reported that the certificate would begin with the class of 2004 and cover Dance, Digital Media, Fine/Visual Arts, Music and Theater.
- The paper reported that students, including Student Council member Tara Feehan, proposed the program; Eric Beatty said the idea was to support students doing substantial arts work, and a student board later met every other week to develop its criteria and implementation.
- The article says students must complete courses, extracurricular activities and a final project, with a staff or faculty sponsor serving as adviser; junior applications were due by Feb. 15, after which the committee would respond within a month.
- The reporter writes that the program’s board would include Homewood Arts Program directors, five staff or faculty members and five students, while courses counted toward the certificate required a grade of “B” or higher.
- The article adds that current seniors could apply by March 1, 2003, and quotes Beatty saying that arts minors might eventually be offered, but that the certificate was then a non-academic program.