Northwest-Shoals Community College-Muscle Shoals

History

Northwest-Shoals Community College is a comprehensive two-year public institution of higher learning providing vocational, technical, academic and lifelong educational opportunities for the northwest Alabama Region. The College is part of the Alabama College System, a statewide system of postsecondary colleges, governed by the Alabama Board of Education. Northwest-Shoals derives its original charter from the Alabama legislature through the Alabama rade School and Junior College Authority Act of 1963.

The Northwest-Shoals service area is comprised of the counties of Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence and the western portion of Winston. The College operates two campuses - the Shoals Campus in Muscle Shoals and the Phil Campbell Campus in Phil Campbell.

The Phil Campbell Campus was founded in 1963 as Northwest Alabama State Junior College to provide access to postsecondary education for citizens of the rural counties of northwest Alabama. It was the first public junior colleg ein what was to become the Alabama College System and was accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and in 1967. The Shoals Campus, founded in 1966 as Joe Wheeler State Trade School, provided occupational and technical training.

Both institutions recognized that the narrowness of their focus did not meet their constituents' educational needs. In 1973 Muscle Shoals State Technical Institute enhanced its curriculum and obtained accreditation from the Commission on Occupational Education Institutions. In 1977, with the approval of the Alabama State Board of Education, Northwest Alabama State Junior College established a branch campus in Tuscumbia primarily to offer first and second-year college courses.

In 1989, the Alabama State Board of Education created Northwest Alabama Community College through the consolidation of Northwest Alabama State Junior College in Phil Campbell and Northwest Alabama State Technical College in Hamilton. Shoals Community College was created through consolidating Muscle Shoals State Technical College and the Tuscumbia Campus of Northwest Alabama State Junior College. The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted accreditation to Northwest Alabama Community College in 1990. Shoals Community College received its accreditation in 1991.

Northwest-Shoals Community College was formed in 1993 by the Alabama State Board of Education through the merger of Northwest Alabama Community College's Phil Campbell Campus and Shoals Community College. The merger was enacted in order to provide more effective and efficient educational services to residents of rural northwest Alabama and the Shoals area.

Additionally, the merger provided business and industry with a single focal point for addressing educational and training needs and provided a single workforce development center to assist communities with economic development activities. The merger was reviewed and approved by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Reaffirmation of accreditation was granted by SACS in December, 1999. Northwest-Shoals Community College, composed of two campuses, has adequate physical facilities to support an environment in which academic, social, physical, and emotional development may be fostered. The two campuses are located in Muscle Shoals and Phil Campbell. The campus in Muscle Shoals is designated as the Shoals Campus. The Shoals is a two-county region comprised of Colbert and Lauderdale counties.


NW-SCC Accreditation Statement
Northwest-Shoals Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in Applied Science and Associate in Occupational Technology degrees as well as certificates in specific occupational areas.


Department of Drafting
* The Drafting & Design Department at Northwest-Shoals Community College can help you enter into the field of drafting by providing you with a flexible, competency-based program of study.

* The NWSCC Drafting & Design program is based on the competencies which are common to all Drafting and Design technicians.

* Emphasis is on developing the student's critical thinking process, world of work skills, as well as drafting procedures and techniques.


Music

Our Mission
Throughout the history of humanity, music has been one of the most universal,
essential, and enduring of human endeavors.

By means of experiences in, and study of the art of music, individuals can be empowered to deeply explore, understand, and give form to their own intellectual, emotional, and creative energies and impulses.

The study of music is therefore both an appropriate and an indispensable component of the educational development of students, serving the mission of Northwest-Shoals Community College in a unique and powerful way.

The Music Department accepts and strives to fulfill this charge:

that each person participating in the study of music in this department will be able to:

· Perceive music in an enlightened, discerning way;
· Respond to the expressive qualities of music with sensitivity and appreciation;
· Share those perceptions and responses with others through the vocabulary and activities intrinsic to music.

Therefore, our mission is to provide, through as many useful means as we can, well-designed and effective opportunities for our students to be engaged with music as a performing art, as a discipline with a considerable and Earth-circling body of scholarship, and as a deeply rewarding lifelong area of endeavor.

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