Enrichment programs for high school students
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June 17 - June 22, 2012
Experience a unique college atmosphere and summer adventure by taking a course in the Augustana Summer Academy.
The academy's courses range from one to five days and take an active, hands-on approach within a close-knit learning community based on the beautiful Augustana campus. You'll find fun outside of class, too, through field trips, evening activities and ventures off campus — maybe even on the Mississippi River.
Classes are taught by popular Augustana professors. Investigate your interests, whatever they may be, and have fun while enriching your education on Augustana's campus this summer.
Scholarships
All students who participate in at least one Augustana Summer Academy course and apply and are accepted into Augustana College (to earn a BA degree), will receive a $500 scholarship for each year enrolled at Augustana College (up to $2,000).
Courses and workshops for 2012
Note: Students participating in courses starting Monday, June 18, should plan to arrive on campus the evening of Sunday, June 17. Students will check in, meet professors and fellow students at a welcome reception, and get acquainted with campus and the residence hall.
The Amazing Brain: a Neuroscience Experience
Dr. Shara Stough
Dates: June 17-19
Cost: $300
In this two-day workshop students will explore the organization and function of the brain, our most amazing organ! Participants will be encouraged to learn about the brain as a professional neuroscientist would do: by asking questions, conducting experiments and drawing conclusions about their findings. Activities will be supplemented by videos, short lectures and discussions of topics that most interest the group. At the end of the workshop, students will have the unique opportunity to study the human brain in Augustana’s Cadaver Laboratory.
This course is available to high school students only.
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Beginning Pipe Organ for Pianists
Larry Peterson
Dates: June 17-19
Cost: $300
This course is for students who have had at least two yers of piano instruction. Morning sessions will be spent on individual and master-class instruction to introduce students to the techniques particular to playing the organ, especially use of the pedals, introduction to the sounds of the organ and repertoire specific to the instrument. Afternoon sessions will be spent at local church venues to explore and play differing types of organ. You will be able to impress your family and friends with a short selection of a familiar or improvised organ piece by the time you leave.
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Cooking as Chemistry
Shirley Crenshaw
Dates: June 17-19
Cost: $300
In this two-day workshop, you will discover the science behind cooking. Good chefs know how the humidity, temperature and their baking-ward effect their cooking. If you watch the Food Network challenges, you see that pastry chefs need to know exactly how to temper their chocolate to build a statue that does not fall over or crumble under pressure. This class is great for the amateur cook or for those who just like science. The best part is that you get to eat your creation at the end.
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CSI: Augustana
Dr. Mary Ellen Biggin, Dr. Patrick Crawford, Dr. Greg Domski
June 17-22
Cost: $750
Crime scene investigation may rule prime-time TV, but how does Hollywood get forensics wrong? In this course you'll be introduced to the scientific reasoning behind forensics, focusing on DNA, bones and trace evidence. Discover the truths CSI can reveal by using Augustana's state-of-the-art equipment, critically evaluating evidence and applying your findings to a simulated crime.
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Dance: Music Made Visible
Deanna Richardson
June 17-20
Cost: $450
A unique opportunity for students interested in dance to be exposed to jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and modern dance, this course will include stretching techniques, improvisation and choreography. Concluding with an informal performance presentation on Wednesday, students will showcase the new moves and techniques they have acquired. This course will be taught in Augustana's newly remodeled dance studio.
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A Day in the Life of a Speech-Language Pathologist
Joni Mack
Dates: June 17-21
Cost: $600
Discover the importance of communication in this four-day hands-on experience in Augustana's Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing. You will observe children with communication disorders, talk with their parents, and assist professional speech-language pathologists in our fun summer therapy program for children with communication impairments. On the last day you will introduce your own creative therapeutic activity.
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Engineering Physics: Rarified Exploration
Dr. Joshua Dyer and Dr. Nathan Frank
Dates: June 17-20
Cost: $150
Students will learn the basics of electron microscopy, x-ray emission, and radioactive decay. They will operate a scanning electron microscope to examine integrated circuits and construction of materials (MATSE) and use an x-ray diffractometer to analyze the composition of unknown materials. They also will perform an experiment using radioactive materials and determine a substance’s half-life.
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Flute Boot Camp
Janet Stodd
June 20-22
Cost: $450
Make new music and musical friends as you participate in three days of fun flute activities to improve your indivdual skills. You will learn new scale routines and tone exercises, get tips on fingering, sight-reading, and auditions. Students will also have an opportunity to try playing an alto flute, bass flute, or piccolo, get coaching on solos and/or ensembles, and also play in a flute choir. Participants will perform with their teacher in a final concert.
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Human Cadaver Gross Anatomy
Dr. Darrin Good
June 17-18 (check-in June 17; program runs Monday, June 18)
OR June 19-20 (check-in June 19; program runs Wednesday, June 20)
Cost: $150
In this one-day workshop in the Augustana Cadaver Lab, you will learn anatomical structures and variations as you develop dissection techniques by working hands-on with human cadavers. Augustana is one of only a few colleges and universities providing undergraduates the opportunity to dissect human cadavers; this workshop extends the privilege to high school juniors and seniors who: have successfully completed a semester of high school anatomy, an AP Biology course or an equivalent; have a serious interest in studying medicine or another health-related field; and demonstrate the academic and social maturity required to take full advantage of this intensive, small-group program.
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Life, Death, Medicine and Law: the Big Questions
Dr. Laura Hartman
Dates: June 17-19
Cost: $300
Medical professionals have to wrestle with definitions of life and death as they determine whether and how to perform controversial procedures like abortion and euthanasia. In this course we look closely at the ideas behind the arguments for and against the legality of abortion and euthanasia. If you have strong opinions, or if you don't know what to think, come prepared to learn about the many sides of these complex issues. Anyone thinking of going into medicine, law, or politics would benefit from this quick but deep primer on medical ethics and public policy.
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The Mid-River Poetry Workshop
Rebecca Wee
June 17-22
Cost: $750
Consider the difference between the following statements:
"It's really windy today."
"The wind makes a salad of the countryside."
In this workshop you will spend one week writing and reading, revising and discussing poetry with others who are interested in how poems do what they do and why they matter so much. Our day-long workshops will focus on a range of themes and genres; you will spend part of each day reading and examining poems and part of the day writing them. Your interests and questions will guide some of our activities and exercises but the main goal of the course is to introduce you to as much good poetry as possible in a week, and prompt you to write as much as you can. We will likely take parts of two days to write off-campus; a field trip to the Iowa Writers Workshop in Iowa City has been instructive and inspiring for previous groups so we'll plan to do it again.
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The Mid-River Writing Workshop
Katie Hanson
June 17-22
Cost: $750
In this program you will learn various styles of creative non-fiction. By the end of the workshop, you will not only have stronger writing and critical analysis skills, you will have learned something about yourself as a writer and how writers work. Plus there will be fun stuff — spend a day on the Mississippi River; eat an exotic lunch, watch movies, and spend some relaxing time in a coffee shop as homework to stimulate your best writing; enjoy evening activities with other Summer Academy participants.
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The Mysterious but Not Anonymous Shakespeare
Dr. David Crowe
June 17-22
Cost: $450
The makers of the film Anonymous don’t think that Shakespeare wrote the plays published under his name, but he did. We will explore the reasons we know this is true. If we grant this as true, then we have better mysteries to pursue. What do Shakespeare’s plays mean for our lives and the ways we live them? Was Shakespeare a Catholic in a day when one could be executed for hiding a priest, and do the plays promote Catholic ways of thinking? Was he loyal to his Queen Elizabeth, with her severe Protestant beliefs? Or was he really a thoroughly modern man who had inklings of an emerging secular world where one made sense of existence without reference to a God? We will explore these questions through two plays.
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Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: A Sports Injury Case Study
Rochel Rittgers
June 18-19 or June 20-21
Cost: $150 for either session
The student is the clinician in this two-day interactive experience. Follow a sports injury from onset to emergency handling, orthopedic assessment and possible surgery, therapy and sport performance enhancement — all to bring the injured athlete back to a peak level of participation. You will tour the cadaver lab to help gain understanding of the tissues involved in injury, meet with a visiting orthopedic surgeon and watch a surgical procedure demonstrated on one of the cadavers.
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A Return to Hogwarts
Pastor Richard Priggie
Dates: June 17-20 (check in June 17, program starts Monday, June 18)
Cost: $450
Now that the seven-book series is complete and eight movies have been screened, Harry Potter fans have a chance to step back and delve more deeply into the saga which experts have called “the shared text” of this generation. Participants in this unique Harry Potter immersion will learn to use interpretive keys such as alchemy to read the books at a deeper level and will experience how it helps our reading to learn traditional literary archetypes, such as the shapeshifter and the shadow. We will concentrate on Deathly Hallows, comparing and contrasting how the book and the movies complement one another in the exploring the deeper meanings of scenes and characters. Along the way, you will have a chance to discover your Patronus, use a Marauder’s Map on a Hogwarts scavenger hunt, walk a labyrinth, and even play a bracing game of Quidditch.
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Safari: A Journey through Africa
Dr. Todd Cleveland
Dates: June 17-20
Cost: $300
This course offers students a unique way to experience Africa without ever leaving the Quad Cities. We will learn about the continent and its peoples by sampling African cuisine, learning about its remarkable past and present, and exploring the range of popular perceptions and misperceptions that we have about Africa and consider from where they came. We will also examine the current challenges that Africa faces, what can be done about these and what we can do to help.
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