Ashland University Intensives 2006

Week Two, 2005

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO ASK SOMEONE WHO’S REALLY STUDIED IT WHAT THEY REALLY KNOW?  HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO HAVE LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IDEAS AND THOUGHTS?  HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT A PROVOCATIVE TOPIC? 

Now You Can. 


Week One, 2005

YOU WILL BE IN A CLASS OF 10 OR FEWER WITH A REAL PROFESSOR. (YOU MIGHT NEVER GET THIS CHANCE AGAIN.)  CHECK IT OUT:  REAL PROFESSORS IN 18 REAL INTENSE SEMINARS AT A REAL PRIVATE LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY.  STAY IN REAL COLLEGE DORMS. EAT THE BEST COLLEGE FOOD IN THE NATION!


WEEK ONE: Sunday, June 25- Sunday, July 2, 2006 (7 ½ days)

Ashland University Intensives
Art: “Three Paints, Three Styles”

Biology: “Ecology and Wetlands"

 Creativity Studies: “Puzzles and Creative Problem Solving”

Dance: “The Dance of Your Life: Exploring Dance”
Film Studies: “Crime and Retribution”

Law:  Medical Ethics: “Creating Moral Decisions”

Mathematics: “All is Number”

Psychology:  “Psychology of Communication & Conflict Management"
Physics: “Quarks and Leptons”


WEEK TWO: Sunday, July 9- Sunday, July 16, 2006 (7 ½ days).

Ashland University Intensives

Chemistry: “Exploring Chemistry Through Medicine and Forensics”

Classics: “Ancient Warfare and Weaponry”

 Songwriting: “Songwriting from the Edge” 

Toxicology: “The Science of Poisons” 

Psychology: “Art & Science of Psychology” 

Religious Studies: “ Exploring and Encountering World Religious Traditions”

Philosophy:   “The Pursuit of Wisdom” 

Sports Communication: “Sports Broadcasting”   

Theater: “Comedy Sports and Improvisation”


Course Descriptions for Week One Intensives

Students take only one class.

Art:
THREE PAINTS, THREE STYLES
PROFESSOR OF ART, CHARLES CALDEMEYER, MFA

How does the process of painting differ when using different painting media?  We will explore and compare styles and techniques in oils, encaustics, and watercolors.  A brief history of each medium, and the cultural context of its development, will accompany our sessions.  An introduction to drawing and color theory will help students in the process of laying out their paintings and mixing their paints.  Students should have taken some art already.
Biology
WETLANDS AND PLANT ECOLOGY
PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, DR. SOREN BRAUNER

Have you ever hiked and done real scientific studies in the wetlands? What types of plants are present in wetlands?  What are their adaptations for living in different amounts of water and light?  We will identify the plants (and other organisms) present in different wetland habitats, and will carry out experiments with a portable photosynthesis system to learn more about physiological adaptations of plants in different environments.  Lab investigations will be combined with field trips to Ashland University's wetland and other environmental preserves.





Creativity Studies:
PUZZLES  AND CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, DR. DONALD SLOAN.
 
You saw him on Jeopardy.  Now this professor of music  will take students through the problem-solving process and through many difficult and challenging puzzles  and logic problems.  Problems will be sent to students before the Institute, as many require a lot of time to solve.  Not every problem has a "standard" solution!  Through use of puzzles, brain teasers, etc., the class will focus on finding unusual and creative approaches to problem solving.
Dance
DANCING YOUR LIFE: FROM WORLD MUSIC TO SALSA
VISITNG PROFESSOR DR. CELESTE SNOWBER,
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Have you seen So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing With the Stars? Do you want a chance to strut your stuff? This class will explore dance, creative movement, improvisation and voice as a way to connect to your life story. We will use movement from world music to salsa to create out of the art work of our own lives. We will also write, use humor, games and storytelling in connection to dance. No movement experience is necessary, but there will be ample time for warm up and developing movement vocabulary. Particular attention will be given to find creative ways to articulate the connection between body, mind, heart, and soul.


Film Studies:
PROFESSOR OF THEATRE, RIC GOODWIN, MFA
CRIME AND RETRIBUTION
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This intensive will examine films that deal with crime and punishment and whether or not the punishment always fits the crime. Some of the issues to be viewed and discussed are justice...what is it?...capital punishment ..is it a just punishment or merely state instituted vengeance? What role does race play in perceived guilt or innocense?...military justice vs. civil justice...what are the differences? and finally the differences between a defendant's rights in US courts vs foreign court systems. Some possible films include In Cold Blood, Dead Man Walking, Midnight Express, Judgement at Nuremburg, A Few Good Men, Paths of Glory,  Breaker Morant, The Life Of Emille Zola, Papillon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Nuts, I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. This class has been offered as an Honors Seminar.  It will be discussion-based, and in seminar format.

Mathematics
ALL IS NUMBER
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, DR. DARREN WICK

Over 2500 years ago, in their pursuit of mathematics, the Pythagoreans adopted the motto “all is number”. In this vein, we will investigate (and speculate about) various properties and patterns of systems of numbers. Among the classes of number we will study: negative, integer, rational, real, imaginary, complex, prime, perfect, amicable, sociable, figurate, geometric, normal, cyclic, transcendental, transfinite, surreal and hyperreal.



Physics
QUARKS AND LEPTONS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF NATURE.
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS DR. RODNEY MICHAEL
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All of the matter in our universe is built from a small handful of particles which fall into one of two families, Quarks or Leptons. We will spend time doing hands-on laboratory experiments which illustrate key concepts. We will also discuss two physical theories, relativity and quantum mechanics, and use these theories to understand the standard model of particle physics and the interactions of the quarks and leptons.
Psychology
.PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION
 & CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
DR. LORI FLINT

Ever wonder why others just don’t understand you or what you’re trying to communicate? Why you relate to others the way you do, and how you can do it better? Wish you could curl up & disappear rather than face conflict? Feel like you ’re going to explode if you don’t say what you feel but can’t figure out how to say the  really hard stuff? Learn your communication strengths and where your self-improvement work lies in this course examining the psychology of communication and conflict management.

Law:
MEDICAL ETHICS: CREATING MORAL DECISIONS
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH  DR. NAOMI SASLAW, J.D.
Is it ethical for a doctor to force a child’s mouth open so that he can determine if she has a life-threatening illness?  Students in this course will engage in intense dialogue about such issues as:  Does a doctor ever have a right to act to hasten death?  Does a burn victim have the right to demand to die?  Does a doctor have the right to choose to withhold treatment from a terminally ill patient?  Why are some everyday issues among the most important in medical ethics?  How do issues in medical ethics affect non-medical areas of our lives?  How can we creatively wrestle with these contemporary dilemmas?

Course Descriptions for Week Two Intensives. Students Take Only One Class
Chemistry:
EXPLORING CHEMISTRY
THROUGH MEDICINE AND FORENSICS
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, DR. REBECCA CORBIN

What is chemistry? What role does chemistry play in curing a disease or solving a crime? We will explore the vibrant world of chemistry through examination of compounds such as pharmaceuticals and fuels. This class will be about the structure, design, and analysis of chemicals that are important to the fields of forensics, medicine, and environmental science. We will investigate how chemistry impacts society through in-depth study and laboratory exercises. This intensive is reserved for students who have not yet taken high school chemistry.

Classics:
THE GREEKS AND ROMANS AT WAR
DR. JOHN LEWIS, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

Standing in a battle line, their shields locked and their spears at ready, the Greeks and the Romans fought.  This class will take us into the world of ancient warfare: why they went to war, how they fought, and the honor they claimed from victory.  We will consider the broad abstract reasons for war, but also the blood and guts action on the ground. We will ask how the Greeks found a sense of comradeship in slaughter, and how the Romans created a professional army. We will see a film The Three Hundred Spartans, about the battle of Thermopylae, when a handful of Greeks held off a half a million Persians for three days.
 
 Philosophy
THE PURSUIT OF WISDOM
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
DR. JEFFREY TIEL 

What are the best things in life?  How have different ideas about what is best affected everyday life? What impact have science, God, beauty, truth, and power made on our understanding of the best human life?  This week we will employ the Socratic method to examine several monumental ideas which fundamentally changed how we understand what is best for humans. The professor is Director of the Ashland University Honors Program.



Psychology 
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
VISITING DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
DR. DIANE MONTGOMERY
  
What does a psychologist study? How are we alike in our uniqueness? If you are curious about these and other questions, sign up for this class: What does creative expression say about you? What do your memories say about our lived experiences in a social world? We will be studying psychology and the messages that are brought from the inside out as we express ourselves in our daily lives. The analysis and study of our own activity brings us new knowledge in this area. Writing memories, sketching ideas, and molding clay reveal inner thoughts and social influences.
Religious Studies
EXPLORING AND ENCOUNTERING
 WORLD RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
PROFESSOR OF RELIGION
DR. DAVID AUNE

In this intensive, participants will not only study a number of different world religions(including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Eastern Orthodoxy) but also visit selected religious sites and interview representatives from these various traditions. Throughout the week, participants will be encouraged to reflect upon their own spiritual journey, especially as it is informed by their encounters with these other religious traditions.

Songwriting
SONGWRITING FROM THE EDGE: 
SELF-EXPRESSION AS SURVIVAL
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION:
F. CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS, M.Ed.

Using the traditional idea that music is medicine, this intensive teaches how to create a space where original self-expression is developed and given muscle.  Ashland Creativity Studies adjunct and recording artist, Christopher Reynolds, presents the knowledge and skills he’s learned over the 30 years of his music career.  These include: creative writing, recording, publishing, performance, using the internet, and booking.  You do not need to know how to read music, but you do have to prove a history of songwriting, poetry writing, and/or ability to play guitar, piano, drums or bass.  Demo CD or tape required.  Enrollment limited.
Sports Communication:
SPORTS BROADCASTING
PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
DR. ROBERT BROWN

Americans love their sports.  Hundreds of hours of sports programming are televised every week.  One fifth of all print media are dedicated to sports.  Millions of people spend much of their leisure time and money attending sporting events.  Yet, does anyone really think about what they are watching?  Through the examination of sport in print and broadcast coverage we will investigate the impact of sport on society and put together our own broadcast, analyzing sport communication

Theater
VISITING PROFESSOR OF THEATER, JEREMY DUBIN, MFA
THEATER IMPROVISATION: COMEDY SPORTS

If you like the freewheeling improvisation on the popular television show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?  You'll love Comedy Sports.  Students will learn theater games such as "What Are You Doing?" "Forward Reverse," "Tag Team Rhyming Verse," "Chain Murder Mystery," Translator," "Foreign Movie," and many others.  Come, free yourself up, and join the team for comedy sports.  The professor is an actor with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Repertory Company
Toxicology:
THE SCIENCE OF POISONS
PROFESSOR OF TOXICOLOGY
DR. KAREN STINE 

Have you ever wondered why prescription drugs have "side effects" along with the  effect the drug is supposed to produce? Or how exposure to air pollutants  affects people's health? Or maybe you've wondered whether everything really  does cause cancer, why poison ivy makes you itch, or how snake venom works. The  answers to these and many other questions are found in an area of science called toxicology, the science of poisons. In this class we will explore the basic  principles of toxicology as well as the laboratory techniques that toxicologists use to study the effects of toxicants (poison s) on living organisms.



DAILY SCHEDULE

    7:30        Wake up & Breakfast
    8:30-9:00    Group meeting
       9:00-l1:45    Intensive
    12:00-1:00    Lunch
    1:00-2:00    Alone time. Study, read.
    2:00-4:00    Intensive
    4:15-5:00    Physical activities/games
    5:00-6:00    Dinner
    6:00-7:00    Small groups.
    7:30-9:00    Master classes by major professors. One field trip to the theater will take place.  Dress appropriately.
    9:00-11:00    Group activities,  study time
    11:00        Lights out.

ADMINISTRATION OF SUMMER INSTITUTE:

Administrative Assistant:
Gay Vanderzyden.
gvanderz@ashland.edu
Phone: 419-289-5273
Gay Vanderzyden
 Ashland University
Ashland, OH 44805		 Dr. Jane Piirto, Director of Ohio Summer Institute
 Ashland University
Ashland, OH 44805
E-mail: jpiirto@ ashland.edu.
PHONE: 419-289-5379. 
Web page info: www.ashland..edu/~jpiirto






 

ROOM AND BOARD COST:

$380.00 for 7 nights, 7 ½ days.  This includes room, board, and materials.  Residence is preferred.  Scholarships and partial scholarships are available.  If a scholarship is requested, the student’s parents or guardians should write a letter to the director, indicating the need.  Payment is due at arrival.

COMMUTER COST:

No tuition cost, except for deposit.  Commuters must pay for meals other than lunch, which is provided for all participants. 

APPLICATION COST:

$5.00 deposit, for processing.  Make check to Ashland University.  Refunded to commuters; applied to resident board fee.

ADMISSION:

Students should complete the enclosed application form.  Students may register for both weeks.  The Intensive Concept is that the students take one class per week. Students will be notified in early May, by mail, of admission.  Students should confirm their intention to attend within five days or their place will not be guaranteed. 

BEHAVIORAL GUIDELINES:

Students will be supervised at all times.  Students must stay on campus except when on supervised field trips.  Common courtesy should be observed.  No alcohol, tobacco, or other substances, except for prescriptions from a family physician, will be permitted.  No public displays of affection.  Students who do not abide by the behavioral guidelines will be warned and their parents will be called with a request to come and remove the student from the Institute.  No refunds will be given if a student is asked to leave.

TIME OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE:

 Students should arrive at 1:00 on June 25  or on July 9.  Registration will take place in the dormitory.  Orientation will be held in Founders Hall at 2:00.  Parents are expected to stay for a half hour  orientation to meet the staff.  Parents should come to the final presentation to meet the faculty and to pick their students up at 10:30 a.m. July 2 or July 16. There will be a picnic lunch on the patio as a farewell, at 12:00. Students must check out by 1:00 p.m.  or July 18.  A goodbye picnic lunch will be the final event after the presentation.


Ashland University is a comprehensive private university with 2,100 undergraduate liberal arts students and 6,000 graduate students.  It is located in north central Ohio on I-71 between Cleveland and Columbus (mile marker 186).  Founded in 1878, the college is affiliated with the Brethren Church.  The campus contains 98 acres with 36 modern buildings, including a nine-story, 200,000 volume library, a performing arts theater and art gallery, a new student center, and lovely landscaping with many trees, flowered paths, and brick walls.   Medical facilities are nearby.  Use of the sports  facilities will be part of the daily routine.  The, Ohio is a quiet, small Midwestern town, ideal for intensive study and learning.  The pastoral setting includes Amish buggies clip-clopping down the streets, and a historical district of beautiful old houses.  Ashland University admits students with disabilities and those of any sex, race, age, religion, color, and national or ethnic origin.