Covenant College announced Monday the establishment of two new scholarships for incoming students - The Emerging Artist Scholarship for students majoring in art and the Community Development Scholarship for students majoring in community development.
Each scholarship is valued at $9,000 and will be awarded to one incoming freshman in the respective major and renewed for three years. Students can apply by submitting a scholarship application available from the Covenant web site at www.covenant.edu . The deadline for submitting an application is Dec. 15.
The art department at Covenant College is committed to nurturing the skills and gifts of students so that they are poised to speak to a diverse, visual culture through a Christian worldview, said officials. Students can craft an education program that meets their personal interests through works of art with paint, clay, plaster, photography, digital imaging, and any other assortment of materials they can find.
Covenant provides students the opportunity to study in locations away from the college such as New York City, during a three-week May term and also to participate in a college-sponsored art internship.
The Community Development major at Covenant College combines a liberal arts education with the theory and practice of community development among the poor from a biblical foundation. It equips students to be an agent of Christian transformation within poor communities both in the U.S. and overseas, working in community-based organizations, churches, missions, relief and development agencies, and the public sector, said officials.
Students benefit from interacting with the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College (www.chalmers.org ), a center that trains churches, ministries, and missionaries to facilitate Christian community economic development. A highlight of the major is its three-six month research internship in which students live and work in a poor community under the auspices of a host church or ministry in places as diverse as Atlanta, Guatemala, Mongolia, and Uganda.