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Please Note: Summer 2010 dates are still TBA
Art (Studio)
These classes are intense weeklong experiences combining studio work with visits to galleries and museums. Special visits to artists’ studios will be arranged and participants will be invited to visiting artists’ lectures.
CRAF 591 Introduction to Kilnworking Workshop for Teachers
Students will cover the fundamentals of working with sheet glass. The materials will range from window glass to art glass (colors, patterns and textures) and the techniques will include image transfer, painting, cutting, grinding, forming, slumping, and fusing sheet glass.
PAPR 591 Drawing and Mixed Media Workshop for Teachers: Focus on the Figure
This workshop emphasizes the role of drawing and experimentation in developing a body of artwork inspired by figurative themes.
PAPR 591 Mixed Media/Bookmaking Workshop for Teachers
This workshop will explore the many approaches to creating one-of-a-kind books.
PAPR 591 Painting Workshop for Teachers
This workshop involves a week completely devoted to making, viewing and discussing art.
Education
TEDU 500 The Constructivist Classroom: Everyone Teaches, Everyone Learns
Participants will evaluate and integrate information, think flexibly and “out of the box,” collaborate with co-workers and apply creative processes in search of innovative solutions.
TEDU 500 Language Variation in the Classroom
This course will examine some of the major differences in the speech and writing of students who are speakers of Southern English and/or African-American English, and students who are new learners of English.
Foreign Language
FRLG 591 Transculturation: Spanish Immersion
The participants will read and discuss current research concerning the theory of and the application of transcultural studies.
Science/Health
LFSC 591 Biotechnology I
This workshop focuses on theory & hands-on activities for middle school, high school and community college instructors new to teaching biotechnology, genetics & molecular biology.
LFSC 591 Biotechnology II
This theory and hands-on activity workshop is for high school and junior college instructors with some experience teaching genetics and molecular biology.
LFSC 591 Biotechnology III
This workshop focuses on theory and hands-on activities for high school & community college instructors with experience teaching genetics and molecular biology.
LFSC591 All in the Family: Genes and your Health
This course will use a case-based approach to illustrate the importance of family health history in understanding health and disease risk.
LFSC 591 The Science at a Crime Scene: Finding Evidence to Give It a Voice
This is a new course on the science and art of crime scene processing, evidence handling and scene reconstruction.
LFSC 591 Systems Biology
The Systems Biology course will introduce you to the field of systems biology, or the connections between the elements of life. Students will learn computer and wet-lab techniques that are used to examine biology at the systems level.
LFSC 591 Wetlands, Watershed and Water Quality
Join us for a week of wetlands exploration as we investigate geomorphology, hydrology, and biota within natural, restored & constructed wetlands in the James River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.
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