Summer Workshop Course Descriptions
ART 3220 – ART 4470 – ART 6250 – ART 6400: Poster Art-Silkscreen & Digital Workshop
This workshop is for those interested in graphic design, silkscreen and poster arts. Participants will learn the basics of silk-screening from screen preparation to registration and printing. Composition and layout will be rendered on the computer. The first assignment is a structured assignment that will include a themed print exchange with all class participants. The second assignment will be open and will cater to individual interests. Class will include instruction in the morning and afternoon with plenty of hands-on work time.
This course will focus on clay mixing, creating vessels employing the potter’s wheel, glazing and firing pottery forms to stoneware temperatures. Traditional wheel thrown forms are explored through seven assignments. Emphasis is placed on throwing skill, and overall improvement throughout the semester. You are expected to achieve a consistent level of ability and emphasis is placed on multiple productions. However, all work will be graded in its final state. You must create at least 103 fired pieces to meet the minimum studio requirements for this course.
ART 4460 – ART 6400: Digital Animation Overview (7/14/08 -8/1/08) (5:00PM-10:00PM
This workshop is an introduction to the study and use of the computer as a three-dimensional modeling and animation medium. Hands on software training directed toward the art of digital animation design and aesthetic expression will be emphasized. Critical review of a final animated project will focus on the elements and principles of visual design as well as three-dimensional modeling, lighting, texturing, and animation concepts.
Instruction for this workshop has been organized to include tutorials that will help in the understanding of the application animation programs, Alias/Wavefront “Maya”. This program will be used in conjunction with a simple editing and sound capture program to produce a finished animated story.
ART 4650 – ART 6650 Ceramic Vessels and Atmospheric Firing Processes (5/12/08-5/23/08) (9:00AM-5:00PM)
As long as groups of ceramists continue to participate in the practice of atmospheric firings an age-old custom is both examined and carried on. This hands-on workshop will be a great opportunity to work in a community setting and explore atmospheric firing processes. Students will have the opportunity to view slides and videos of other professional kiln designs addressing loading and firing strategies. Students will formulate new clay bodies, create pieces and then fire samples in a variety of atmospheric kilns. Finally, students will examine samples through critique.
EDUC 5560: Signing in School: The Benefits & Procedures for Incorporating Sign Into Any Instructional Program
This course teaches prospective and experienced teachers how to use select American Sign Language (ASL) signs with hearing students to achieve behavioral and educational objectives. The techniques taught will enhance and curriculum and provide a unique and effective way to manage student behavior, make the classroom more interactive and help students excel in countless ways. Whether using only a couple of signs for checking student comprehension, a handful for behavior management or incorporating sign into every aspect of the school day, “Signing in School” truly is the fun and easy way to a more productive day.
This course is designed to help teachers understand the importance of connecting math and culture in their instruction. Issues relevant to developing culturally-inclusive math lessons are particularly emphasized. Because it is a one-credit workshop, a project will be assigned and due one week following the completion of the class meetings.
ELED 5000 – ELED 6000: The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher (8/4/08-8/8/08) (8:00AM-3:30PM)
This workshop is designed for undergraduate and graduates in education. This hands-on participation course will focus on the skills successful teachers need to know and practice in order to be effective. Participants will learn how to bring success to students through positive expectations, classroom management, and lessons designed for mastery learning, and help for learning and growth as a professional.
ELED 5000: Integrating Art in the Elementary Classroom (5/12/08-5/23/08) (9:00AM-12:00PM)
As a participant in this art methods workshop you will create a portfolio of finished art projects for use in teaching art in the elementary school classroom. You will learn where to find great ideas for activities and how to connect art to all areas of the curriculum. You will visit an art gallery and learn of the educator resources offered there. You will keep a fun art journal to encourage creative thinking. You will learn about great artists and their styles through the ages, as well as the specialized vocabulary of art and design and how to talk to your student’s about art. You will have a mini teaching experience as you share one of your own art activity ideas with the class.
Would you like to avoid power struggles with kids? Would you like to have energy for yourself at the end of the day? Would you like to gain cooperation in your classroom and home? Please join this 2 credit hour course for an effective approach t teaching and working with others. Using a resiliency and human needs framework, and supported by the research of Robert Marzano, Love and Logic provides teachers, future teachers and people working with children, an effective behavior management model. You will learn techniques to enhance children’s self-concept, help children problem solve and take personal responsibility, thus allowing more time for instructional and the building of relationships. Specific situations will be discussed in working with disruptive children. Methods will be taught to help establish the desired classroom climate.
ENGL 3070 – ENGL 6770: The Supernatural and Everyday History (5/12/08-5/16/08) (0830AM-0430PM)
“The Supernatural and Everyday History” will cover such topics as ghosts, witches, haunted cemeteries, and Celtic fairy lore. These topics will be discussed vis-à-vis a variety of historical events, practices, and beliefs including:
--the Protestant Reformation and subsequent arguments about the nature of ghosts
--the 1890 burning of Bridget Cleary as a changeling in Ireland and its relation to Irish home rule
--cemetery statuary and burial practices such as the Parisian Catacombs
ENGL 3420 – ENGL 3430 – ENGL 3440 – ENGL 6880: Writing in Hybrid Forms (5/5/08-5/9/08) (9:00AM-5:00PM)
Fiction disguised as a lab report---autobiography that reads like a fable ---travel writing shaped by a Japanese poetic form --- these are among the published works we’ll explore in this class, as inspiration for your own writing. Each student will create an 8-10 page portfolio of original writing in hybridized forms. For example: you can use the format ant tone of a newspaper article to convey one of your own life’s stories; you can create a literary collage of poems and fictional scenes to tell another’s story; you can write a radio broadcast that mixes imagination with reality, to make a point. Techniques to take you from blank page to polished work will include directed in-class writing, peer critique, and individual conferences with the instructor. Enroll in the genre you’d primarily like to develop with the understanding that all genre conventions are subject to warp hare! Challenge yourself as a writer by trying out innovative, unpredictable combinations of structure and content.
ENGL 3430 – ENGL 3440 – ENGL 6880: Creative Writing: Writing and Meditation (7/28/08-8/1/08) (8:30AM-4:30PM)
“Creative Writing; Writing and Mediation” focuses on learning strategies for opening one’s creativity through visualization and meditation practices, as well as strategies for shaping, developing, and refining one’s writing into compelling essays and poems. The classroom experience will combine the examination of the work of published writers, learning strategies for invention, individual writing time (both in the classroom and in the natural world), sharing one’s work in large and small workshops, meeting individually with the instructor, and a revising one’s work. The course should result in the production of one finished essay or a series of several poems. The methods and strategies practiced in this workshop are also designed to be useful to participants who are educators themselves and wish to replicate them in their own classroom.
In this workshop, students will learn the art and craft of memoir writing. Participants will have the opportunity to read memoir and explore what makes memoir writing successful. They will then apply those writing strategies to their own work, producing brief memoirs that explore childhood memories, passages, landscapes, family connections, etc. These pieces might serve as the start of a book-length memoir or series of essays. While we will read examples of professional memoir in the class, they majority of our time will be focused on producing writing. The format of the course will be a writing workshop where students will practice different memoir techniques, as well as draft, share, revise, critique and discuss their work. Educators will find this element of the course particularly useful in terms of generating new approaches to writing that can be implemented in their classrooms. Those interested in family histories will find the course beneficial in terms of the foundation it provides.
ENGL 3520: Multicultural American Literature (8/4/08-8/8/08) (9:00AM-5:00PM)
Whether you care considering teaching multicultural literatures or are a student interested in literature more generally, the explorations we’ll undertake in this class will deepen your experiences as a thoughtful reader. We’ll engage the texts of short stories, poetry and contemporary film to explore creative multicultural depictions of family, ethnicity, nationality, and spirituality. Potential problems in the teaching and reading of “Multicultural American Literature” will also be elaborated and debated. Our week will include time for small and large group discussions, lecture, individual research into questions of interest to each student, and written responses to the works presented. Options for the final project include a series of lesson plans, a creative/imitative work inspired by our texts, or a paper combining contextual research with analytic reading. Join us as we investigate key terms and ideas in contemporary Native American, Chicano/a, African American and Asian-Pacific Islander American Studies.
ENGL 4640 – ENGL 6350: American Literature & Culture – Studies in the West (6/16/08-6/20/08) (8:00AM-5:00PM)
This interdisciplinary course will look at the American Farm through literature (fiction like My Antonia and literary nonfiction like The Botany of Desire), history (from the development of agriculture in ancient civilizations to documents from Thomas Jefferson, Crevecouer, and Teddy Roosevelt, and legislations like the Homestead Act and the Carey Act), mythology and the classics (Virgil’s Georgics and mythic figures like Demeter), film (documentaries and Hollywood box office hits), folklore (crop circles and messages behind Barn hex signs), gender studies (Women’s land Army and women homesteaders), music (Farm Aid’s efforts to save the modern farm), and art and visual culture (painter Grant Wood, Idaho photographer Clarence Bisbee, and farmer’s market posters). Participants will be expected to do some of the readings beforehand (contact instructor by email; additional assignments will be made during the week of the course), and final written projects will be individualized, according to student’s areas of interest and program of study, and may include course development for in-service teachers, creative writing projects, folklore fieldwork, or traditional term papers.
ENGL 4750 – ENGL 6750: Fife Folklore Workshop: Life Stories (6/2/08-6/6/08) (8:30AM-4:30PM)
The Fife Folklore Conference will address the theme of Folklore and Popular Culture through lectures and class activities, plus bringing in a nationally known outside expert to deliver a keynote address on the topic to students and also involve them in interactive classroom activities. Course objectives include making participants more educated about folklore and its workings in the world around them. Also, the course will make the students more aware of how culture shapes their lives and the lives of other people. It will help students become less ethnocentric.
This workshop will teach students the necessary skills and tools to write winning grant applications and proposals. Students will learn from a successful proposal and grant writer who has written winning proposals for high-tech industries and grant applications to the NSF, NEH, and other public and private research funding sources. Students will learn the key elements of customer, competitive, and RFP analysis.
ENGL 5400 – ENGL 6470: Designing Effective Oral Presentations (5/5/08-5/9/08) (8:00AM-4:30PM)
This class will prepare students to give effective presentations designed to inform. It will discuss how to assess the situation, how to structure the presentation, how to prepare graphic aids, how to dress, how to stand, and how to speak. It will culminate in an actual presentation the student has designed.
Africa, South of the Sahara is the world’s least developed region, beset by disease, environmental degradation, famine, a recent colonial history, ethnic conflict, war and corruption. Besides being subject to the myriad afflictions endemic to the tropics, AIDS is devastating the region as 70% of the world’s cases occur here. The focus of his workshop is upon population – diversity, ethnic and gender issues; the environment – degradation, health and disease and the role played in Africa’s underdevelopment; and Africa’s societies – how the countries have been impacted by their colonial heritage, the conflicts of the post-colonial period and the search for development and stability.
This workshop traces the rise of China as a global economic power from its pre-communist background to the rise of communism under Chairman Mao, to the recent reforms that led to a dynamic “free market” economy. A nation of
1.3 billion people dwarfs all others simply by its sheer size. Add a robust economy growing at 10% for the last 25 years and you get today’s China, the world’s manufacturing center, an emerging superpower. Despite phenomenal economic success over the past 25 years, China faces many challenges, the most important, being to raise the standard of living of the millions who reside in rural China. Through lecture, discussion and video this workshop will explore the rise of China to become an emerging superpower and the challenges facing China and the United States in the 21st Century.
GEOG 4200 – GEOG 6200: Exploring Utah in the Field: A Fieldtrip and Field Experience based study of Utah
This workshop is specifically designed to involve actively you in an exploration of Utah, it’s people, places, and the variety of natural landscapes through complimentary strategies of participatory and place based learning. Each day we will explore the importance of specifically selected issues and/or problems central to the growth and development of Utah in both the past and present by integrating topic presentations, fieldtrips and field experiences which: water and travel to Red Rock pass and Logan River drainage, climates and the variety of natural environments in Utah and a trip across the mountains to Great Salt Lake, showing the importance of relative location to quality of life, historic settlement and changing rural Villages with a trip to Huntsville, and finally contemporary growth and development along the Wasatch Front and the Great Divide as we finish the week with a field trip to Salt lake Valley ending at Sun Crest.
GEOG 4800 – GEOG 6800: Teaching Geography in Social Studies and Sciences (6/9/08-6/13/08) (8:30AM-4:30PM)
This workshop is designed for participants who are interested in learning how to apply action oriented and activity based basic teaching and learning strategies in the classroom so as to maximize critical thinking of learners. Participants will be actively involved in student centered learning activities which focus on active participatory and hands-on centered geographic learning activities, knowledge, skills (GPS, mapping), placed based activities, and learning to create self designed action based learning activities for students. One full day will be centered around creating classroom activities for the new 2008 Utah Classroom Atlas by Craig and Carr. One full day will be focused on utilizing Place-based active fieldtrips and fieldwork both in the classroom and in the local school vicinities. One full day will be centered around using the internet to identify and apply learning activities from a variety of educational sources.
The Middle East is one of the most important regions of the world for the U.S. and its allies. It is also one of the most volatile. Oil supplies from this region are crucial and recent efforts to democratize the area have also underscored its centrality for Americans. For this reason, this workshop will provide both a historical and present day presentation in order to inform Americans of the central facts of the events and individuals that have and are likely to shape the future.
“The Supernatural and Everyday History” will cover such topics as ghosts, witches, haunted cemeteries, and Celtic fairy lore. These topics will be discussed vis-à-vis a variety of historical events, practices, and beliefs including:
--the Protestant Reformation and subsequent arguments about the nature of ghosts
--the 1890 burning of Bridget Cleary as a changeling in Ireland and its relation to Irish home rule
--cemetery statuary and burial practices such as the Parisian Catacombs
--Irish holy wells and fairy beliefs
--the Winchester “House of Mystery”
The Fife Folklore Conference will address the theme of Folklore and Popular Culture through lectures and class activities, plus bringing in a nationally known outside expert to deliver a keynote address on the topic to students and also involve them in interactive classroom activities. Course objectives include making participants more educated about folklore and its workings in the world around them. Also, the course will make the students more aware of how culture shapes their lives and the lives of other people. It will help students become less ethnocentric.
HIST 4640: American Literature & Culture – Studies in the West (6/16/08-6/20/08) (8:00AM-5:00PM)
This interdisciplinary course will look at the American Farm through literature (fiction like My Antonia and literary nonfiction like The botany of Desire), history (from the development of agriculture in ancient civilizations to documents from Thomas Jefferson, Crevecouer, and Teddy Roosevelt, and legislations like the Homestead Act and the Carey Act), mythology and the classics (Virgil’s Georgics and mythic figures like Demeter), film (documentaries and Hollywood box office hits), folklore (crop circles and messages behind Barn hex signs), gender studies (Women’s land Army and women homesteaders), music (Farm Aid’s efforts to save the modern farm), and art and visual culture (painter Grant Wood, Idaho photographer Clarence Bisbee, and farmer’s market posters). Participants will be expected to do some of the readings beforehand (contact instructor by email; additional assignments will be made during the week of the course), and final written projects will be individualized, according to student’s areas of interest and program of study, and may include course development for in-service teachers, creative writing projects, folklore fieldwork, or traditional term papers.
INST 5750 - INST 6750: Advertisements, Violence, and Moral Messages: Teaching kids to Analyze the Media
On the average, children spend more than 27 hours weekly viewing TV or interacting with video games. They are bombarded with messages about what they should buy, what they should wear, what they should look like, and how they should act. It is not realistic or desirable to simply turn our TVs and computers off. We must empower children to think critically about the media so that they can make wise choices on their own and balance media use with other activities in their lives. In this course we will:
- Define media literacy
- Compare traditional values to values promoted in the media
- Challenge stereotypes as defined by the media
- Learn tools and approaches that can be used to analyze advertisements
- Define types of media violence and discuss effects of viewing media violence
- Examine the effects of media messages on body image and self-esteem
- Explore sources of materials and helpful websites
- Analyze videos, ads, documentaries, movie clips, etc.
- Do hands-on activities and projects
This workshop is guaranteed to be fast-paced, thought provoking, and highly relevant in our media age.
POLS 4890: US and the Middle East(6/9/08-6/13/08) (9:00AM-4:00PM)
The Middle East is one of the most important regions of the world for the U.S. and its allies. It is also one of the most volatile. Oil supplies from this region are crucial and recent efforts to democratize the area have also underscored its centrality for Americans. For this reason, this workshop will provide both a historical and present day presentation in order to inform Americans of the central facts of the events and individuals that have and are likely to shape the future.
Would you like to avoid power struggles with kids? Would you like to have energy for yourself at the end of the day? Would you like to gain cooperation in your classroom and home? Please join this 2 credit hour course for an effective approach t teaching and working with others. Using a resiliency and human needs framework, and supported by the research of Robert Marzano, Love and Logic provides teachers, future teachers and people working with children, an effective behavior management model. You will learn techniques to enhance children’s self-concept, help children problem solve and take personal responsibility, thus allowing more time for instructional and the building of relationships. Specific situations will be discussed in working with disruptive children. Methods will be taught to help establish the desired classroom climate.
This course introduces skills and materials that are useful for conflict management and consensus building. The class will discuss contemporary theories on conflict and communication. It also will analyze the role of culture, gender, power and personal and /or organizational ethics in conflict.
WATS 6900: The Principles and Practices of Stream Restoration (Part 1) (7/14/08-7/18/08) (8:00AM-5:00PM)
The Principles and Practices of Stream Restoration (Part 2 in Fall 08 Registration)(8/18/08-8/22/08)
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of stream assessment techniques and approaches to restoration management and design. The course emphasizes the inter-relatedness of hydraulics, sediment transport, geomorphology, aquatic ecology, fisheries, hydrology, and riparian ecology. The course strives to integrate the practice of stream restoration with riverine science and focuses on providing students an overview of recent trends and findings in the scientific literature.
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