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Cultural Events

Lee Honors College requires that all freshmen attend at least three cultural events in each semester while they are enrolled in the Lee Honors College, and provide a written response that describes and critiques your experience, one or two paragraphs long.

At the end of each year these portfolios are to be submitted via email or to the front desk at the Lee Honors College office, and will become part of the students’ files for us to use as we perform our yearly audit.

I know that most of our students already participate widely in the cultural life of the campus, which we are now in the process of formalizing. The Lee Honors College has always tried to challenge its students to be citizens of the University and the world in the broadest possible way. This new requirement may seem rather mechanistic, but its aim is organic: to encourage students to learn (and, we hope, to love) as much as they can about the cultural life that is the heart of any civilized society and the soul of any civilized person.

Cultural events can be defined broadly, but I have in mind most specifically the following categories:

• Lectures or programs sponsored by the Lee Honors College.
• Concerts, performances, and recitals in Music or Dance , as listed in the monthly calendar of the College of Fine Arts.
• Readings in poetry or prose sponsored by the English Department.
• The foreign film series at WMU’s Little Theater or K-College
• One-act and full-length plays sponsored by the Department of Theatre.
• Art exhibits and shows sponsored by the School of Art in any of its exhibit spaces.
• Seminars, symposiums, and speeches delivered on a variety of special cultural topics by many colleges and departments throughout the University.
• Programs at Miller Auditorium , when appropriate (as suggested by the above list).
• Exhibits at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts or other regional cultural institutions.
• Events and exhibits presented by the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo (as suggested by the above list).

What does not constitute a Cultural Event?

The list of acceptable cultural events does not include raves, hootenannies, hockey games, NASCAR races, visits to tattoo parlors, square dances, or concerts of popular music, no matter how much fun these things might be. If you have any questions, please contact the LHC (269) 387-3230.

Submit a Cultural Event

Send information abot your upcoming cultural event to: leehonorscollege@wmich.edu.