Valparaiso University, a small Lutheran university, 鈥渋s a serious academic community with strong, but not forceful, religious background鈥� that 鈥減repares, motivates, and challenges tomorrow鈥檚 leaders, engineers, nurses, and teachers while giving the opportunity for religious growth.鈥� Business, education, and engineering are the most popular general areas of study, and are among Valpo鈥檚 most celebrated departments. Other standout disciplines include nursing, music, theater (鈥渢he department involves touring professional directors a couple times a year, which speaks for itself鈥� and 鈥減uts on great plays鈥�), and one of the nation鈥檚 largest meteorology programs (which 鈥渏ust erected a stateof-the-art Doppler radar, putting Valpo at the forefront for undergrad meteorology鈥�). Undergrads here appreciate the breadth of excellent offerings as well as 鈥渢he school鈥檚 ability to integrate the liberal arts with a variety of majors...As a student, I have been able to study engineering as well as hermeneutics, child development, and read classic texts ranging from Aristotle and Plato to Chuang Tzu and Derrida.鈥� Valpo operates under an honor code students say, 鈥渃reates an environment of trust and high moral responsibility.鈥� 鈥淧eople follow the honor code, especially because the punishments are strict, such as failing the class for a first offense,鈥� one student tells us. A few dissenters feel 鈥渢he honor code may reduce some cheating, but I don鈥檛 think it comes near to eliminating it.鈥� Outstanding students may enroll in Christ College, an honors college, which they describe as 鈥渧ery intense but very rewarding.鈥�
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