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.
Registration is open until midnight May 18, 2012
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
Notes: 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. Cancellation policy is at the bottom of this page.
The Amazing Brain: a Neuroscience Experience (Class has filled, see details for wait list)
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.
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POP (Pipe Organ for Pianists)
Larry Peterson
Dates: June 17-19
Cost: $300
This course is for students who have had at least two years 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 organs. 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
This course is no longer available for Summer 2012
CSI: Augustana (Class has filled, see details for wait list)
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 (Class has filled, see details for wait list)
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 17-18
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 17-20
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 (Both sections have filled, see details for wait list)
Medical Students: Rob Wood and Aly Prigge
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)
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."
One of those sentences is poetry and one is prose; one asserts on observation and one sings. 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 (Class has filled, see details for wait list)
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 17-20
Cost: $450
Luckily for those of us who love Shakespeare's plays but don't live near a classical, professional theater, there are wonderful film versions to watch. We will view two of the best of these films: Roman Polanski's shocking 1969 Macbeth, produced in the aftermath of Charlie Manson's murder of Polanski's pregnant wife and friends, and Kenneth Branagh's sweet, sunshiny version of Much Ado About Nothing. Not only will we search the plays for messages about religion, superstition, love and violence, but we will discuss controversies raised by the recent feature-film Anonymous. How do we know that Shakespeare really wrote these 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 through emergency handling, orthopedic assessment, surgery, therapy and sport performance enhancement — all to bring the injured athlete back to a peak level of participation. You will spend time in the cadaver lab identifying and working with the tissues involved in injury. You will be in the surgical setting, watching Dr. Jason Clark, orthopedic surgeon and graduate of Augustana College, as he reconstructs the injured joint on one of the cadavers. You will design and implement the necessary rehabilitation to set your athlete on the road to recovery.
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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 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 17-19
Cost: $300
This course offers students a unique way to experience Africa without ever leaving the United States. 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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Cancellation Policy:
Cancellation refunds for cancelled courses. Courses not meeting minimum enrollment will be cancelled. Students who signed up for a cancelled course will have the option to sign up for another course or receive a full refund. Cousese meeting maximum enrollment will be closed as soon as maximum enrollment is reached. Students wishing to participate in a closed course can choose to be placed on a wait list and will be notified as soon as an opening is available. All students on wait lists will be notified by June 10th.
Cancellation refunds for participant registration cancellations. Students who signed up for a course and cancel their registration before May 18th, will be entitled to a full refund. Registrations cancelled from May 18th through May 31st will be charged a $50.00 administrative fee. Registrations cancelled after May 31st, will be charged a $75.00 administrative fee. If you have any questions please contact Bonnie Jessee at 309-794-7395.
