Cultural Credit and Events
Students are required to attend a minimum of twenty-four (24) cultural events. For full-time, non-transfer students, this normally means attending an average of three cultural events per semester. However, students who plan to graduate early due to an accelerated schedule of courses, will need to increase the number of cultural events attended each semester to ensure that they reach the twenty-four event requirement within their accelerated schedule. Transfer students are credited with attendance at one cultural event for every five credits transferred.
Cultural credit events have included:
- E.O. Wilson "Can Nature Be Saved? Science, Religion and Our Future" Author, biologist and professor, E.O. Wilson,was the featured speaker for the University's 2009 James A. Stewart Lecture. "Edward Wilson is one of our most inportant living scientists," said Dr. Dixon Sutherland, professor of Religious Studies at Stetson. "He helped create the term 'biodiversity' and the field of Sociobiology. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he has devoted his career to finding unity between traditionally isolated academic fields of knowledge and is a leading voice of the urgency for us to care deeply about the natural world in which we live and on which we depend."
- David Amram, "At Home Around the World" Composer-conductor-instrumentalist-author David Amram, a world music pioneer performed for students, faculty and the general public as part of the 2009 James Turner Butler Creative Lecture Series. Hailed by the Boston Globe as "the Renaissance man of American music," Amram was joined on stage by Stetson University School of Music students for the afternoon event.
- Poetry at an Uncouth Hour is a student and faculty peotry reading held every Thursday evening at 9:00p.m. in various locations on campus. Students are invited to come share their creative works with each other.
- Film Screening and Discussion Sessions - Various student organizations sponsor veiwing and discussions of films that speak to controversial issues facing student today. Recent screenings have included, "Wall-E", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "MILK", "The Comedies of Katt Williams" and "Hotel Rwanda".
- Concerts by the School of Music - Faculty, School of Music Ensembles and invited musicians take the stage to perform for student and public audiences throughout the year.