As fall is just beginning to show its colors in the slow changing leaves, students are far from thinking of the cold winds of winter. Yet the time for planning for the upcoming semester is drawing nearer....
The month of January may be a drab time at some colleges, but at Calvin it’s filled with colorful experiences. Interim is a unique academic period when students have the opportunity to focus on a topic...
This year, Calvin brought speaker Dr. Bethany Haley Williams to the 2016 January Series to talk about her experience founding a program aimed at therapeutically rehabilitating child survivors of war in...
While thousands of on-campus students were reading Tolkien, developing Christian minds or bowling, one group of Calvin students, staff and faculty spent their Interim learning in two African countries,...
Every January, students return to Calvin for Interim, a three-week-long class. During this time, many first-year students take a course that fulfills the required Developing a Christian Mind (DCM) common...
This year, Calvin political science professor Becca McBride took Interim to a whole new level.
She and 16 students spent six days this January in sunny Orlando, Fla., enjoying one of the greatest theme...
The familiar weekly chapel pattern is on hiatus this Interim as campus ministries presents a three-week series called “By Faith.” The series focuses both on the faith of biblical figures recorded in...
This year marks the 28th installment of the January Series. During Interim, the January Series invites speakers of the highest caliber from a wide variety of fields and disciplines.
“Every day is...
Ericka Buitenhuis (and Hayley Cox)
As the rush of finals week begins to wind down, first semester comes to a long-awaited close and students begin perusing various class textbook lists for second semester,...
“What are you doing next Interim?”
“I’m going to Disney!”
Thanks to Professor Becca McBride’s new Interim class, this will be possible for Calvin’s 2015 Interim. The course “Disney, Culture...
Abby Bristol, England
I was so blessed to be involved in the art Interim course called Collecting the World, where we traveled to London and a few of its surrounding cities. As a sociology major, it was...
While some students will be in the far corners of the world this Interim, many of us will remain here in Grand Rapids.
That being said, staying on campus for Interim is far from boring. Eight upperclassmen...
