In mid-January, a 3-hour dance audition was held in studio D101. 50 Wake Forest students were selected by 12 student choreographers to perform in the Spring Dance Concert – a usually sold-out event held on the University’s Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
When music professor John Beck’s Afro-Cuban drumming class moved online, his students didn’t miss a beat – even though only one of the 17 seniors in his class had access to a drum.Categories: Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
For an assignment from Elizabeth Clendinning’s modern popular music class, students were tasked with listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” The goal: to experience a concept album. The result: their families engaged, too.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
The benefits of a brief “social belonging” exercise completed by black students in their first year of college followed them into adulthood, with participants reporting greater career satisfaction, well-being and community involvement almost a decade later.Categories: Research & Discovery
“To think like a poet, you have to follow your curiosities,” Wake Forest English professor and poet-in-residence Amy Catanzano tells her students. Categories: Research & Discovery