Scholarship and Creative Arts Days, SCAD,  is an annual conference held at Elizabethtown College. The mission of SCAD is to provide a forum for student scholarship that supports and promotes the College’s main learning goals for intellectual development, critical thinking, thoughtful communication, creativity, human expression and diversity of perspectives. Here are a few projects which were presented during the 2018 SCAD.

Project #1

Signifying Religion: An African American Worldview

In Fall 2017, the REL101 course created a pop-up museum representative of what they learned in their introduction to religious studies. Students used theoretical insights from the discipline and the history of African Americans to think through the difficult question, “What is religion?” Each contributor used archival images, photographs from the Lancaster African American Heritage Walking Tour, and a 3D printed symbolic artifact to explain their answers.

Students used mobile devices for the walking tour to take pictures. They found archival data using the catalogs at the library. And they 3D printed the objects in the Digital Innovation Lab in Nicarry.

Presenters: Chaniqua Estrada, Kelly Holdren, Lauryn Mitchell, Morgan Taylor, Nadia Mourtaj, Celine Velazquez, Anushka Katikaneni, Rider Brandau, and Elise Stendal

Project #2

THINK E-TOWN: BUILDING EMPATHY THROUGH THE PUBLIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Presenter: Sabria Fountain

 

Project # 3

Cancer as a Religion

Presenter: Marlee Schwalm

 

Project # 4

Excavating Religion from Ethnocentrism

Presenter: Jessica Royal

Project #5

Maya Clare Cares About Religion

Presenter: Maya Aphornsuvan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-CVFTFAQ2Y&list=PL7mpUcQPMsHHatVfTXQ4LWHd-ibeNmfXK