Theater
As a  student, you’ll act, direct and design productions, exploring your gifts and getting hands-on experience while unpacking the faith and social justice aspects of your work. Cast and crew regularly gather with professors for “faith roundtables” to discuss implications of plays, community response and more.

Art
If you’re a , you’ll work with professor Cyndi Gusler, creator of , a runway show of innovative attire created entirely from cast-off materials. Highlighting sustainable styling and the choices we all make in life, the show .

Music
���ٳܻ��Գ������Ǵڳٱ����, like linking music with digital media for a career in sound design and movie scoring. Or you can weave music with peacebuilding to do conflict transformation through musical productions, or with nursing to do music therapy. 2012 graduate Charise Garber, now in med school,, music and biology, and explored how the mind is influenced by music.

Digital media and photography
 majors learn digital imaging, photography, videography, motion graphics, design, audio and more in a thriving program that is one of the most popular in our university. You can . Student and graduate work has appeared in such outlets as Time Magazine, The New York Times, and The Hill (serving the U.S. Congress).

Language and literature
Mastery of �����Ի� appreciation of literature contribute to success in almost every walk of life. Perhaps you’ll write original poetry and fiction for Phoenix, 91����Ƶ’s literary and visual arts journal, engage with notable authors visiting campus for the , do a writing internship at a non-profit, or hone your language skills to bring change in cross-cultural settings all over the world.

Find meaningful work in your field

98% of 91����Ƶ graduates are working, engaged in service or in further study within 12 months of graduation.��Nearly 90% are employed within their field of study.��Check out what two 91����Ƶ arts alumni are doing now:

• Katie Goins Frewens, an , earned a doctorate of musical arts and now teaches middle school music to urban teens. While a student, she was the piano rehearsal accompanist for the �����Ի� sang with .

• Matt Pearson combined a ���ɾ��ٳ��������Ի��������Դǰ��� to prepare for his goal of becoming an ordained Methodist minister. While a student, Matt acted and directed in the majority of MainStage productions, founded an improv troupe still going strong today, and interned at Second City Improv in Chicago. He went on to earn a divinity degree, and in 2012 became a youth pastor in California.

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Start the conversation by , scheduling a , talking with a professor or coach, or .��See what life is really like at our Christian university like no other!

While the contest ran in conjunction with the “Micah Think Tank” festivities this year, 91����Ƶ has taken part in the competition for the past four out of five years. The grand prize winner will move on to compete at the bi-national level.

Nicholas L. (Nick) Stoddard, a junior biblical studies major from Wellman, Iowa, won the grand prize award of $250 with his speech, “Connect the Dots.” His oration explored how individual choices add up to affect others on a global level.

Matthew A. (Matt) Pearson, a junior from Suffolk, Va., and John P. Stephens, a junior from Harrisonburg, also competed, bringing stimulating ideas to the table regarding contemporary peace issues. A video of Stoddard’s speech and a written copy will be entered in the bi-national competition.

The contest was established in 1974 by the directors of the C. Henry Smith Trust as a way of honoring the late Mennonite historian who taught at Goshen (Ind.) College and Bluffton (Ohio) University.

It is administered annually by Peace and Justice Ministries of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Students from every Mennonite and Brethren in Christ college in North America are eligible to participate.

"Laundry and Bourbon," a student-directed comedy revolving around the lives of three small-town women and their less-than-ideal marriages will be performed 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 5-7, on Thomas Plaza of the Campus Center at 91����Ƶ.

The play, directed by 91����Ƶ junior Matt Pearson, is set on the front porch of Elizabeth

Fifty "Relief Kits" will soon be on their way to needy people in the flood devastated Gulf Coast region, thanks to another disaster response effort at 91����Ƶ.

Initiated by pastoral assistants and dubbed the "Katrina-Rita-Rama Relief Race," 91����Ƶ students, faculty and staff were challenged to provide items for relief kits for (MCC).

The contest involved nine teams – the six residence halls, Parkwood Apartments, Commuter Fellowship and faculty/staff. Each team was assigned one or two items to collect for the kits over a three-week period.

An MCC relief kit consists of four bars bath soap, a package of sanitary pads, a plastic bottle of shampoo, fingernail clippers, a box of adhesive bandages, hairbrush, wide-tooth comb, toothpaste, laundry detergent and bath towel.

Hillside Residence Hall collected the most items – 93 bottles of shampoo – and received bottles of dishwasher liquid a poster of 91����Ƶ’s "Friday Chapel Announcement mascots" (students Matt Pearson and Becka Rankin) for their efforts.

A student group from Northlawn Third South assembled the kits Tuesday evening, Nov. 1, to send to MCC.

Senior Carissa J. Sweigart of Harrisonburg, one of the student organizers, said she was "excited to see all the donated items coming in," noting, "Fifty kits may not sound like a lot, but with each one valued at $30, the 91����Ƶ community raised nearly $1,500 on top of previous relief efforts."

An earlier student-initiated fund-raising project brought in nearly $3,400 by the end of September to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. The project was launched during a Sept. 9 chapel service by the (YPCA).

That money was sent to MCC headquarters in Akron, Pa., earmarked for (MDS) work in the Gulf Coast.