Summer Term at Washington College

AMS/ENG 209 Introduction to American Literature and Culture I

Monday-Friday 9:00am-11:45am
Instructor: DeProspo

AMS/ENG 209 is gateway courses to the American Studies major at Washington College, counting both for Humanities General Education credit and prerequisite credit for American Studies.  The course is also writing intensive, its course work being exclusively a series of short papers.
 
The American Studies major, the oldest cross-disciplinary major at Washington College, allows unusually independent students virtually to design their own majors, including both Social Science and Humanities courses that prepare students for careers in education, government, law, and social service, among others. It is exceptionally keyed to the College's historical heritage and provides students with all of the opportunities afforded by the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, in particular the Center's many paid internships. 

ANT 105: Intro to Anthropology

Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45
Instructor: Lampman

The study of human diversity with emphasis on cultural anthropology. Topics include the anthropological perspective, resources of culture, organization of material life, systems of relationships and global forms of inequality. The course examins how anthropologists apply their skills to solve contemporary human social problems. Basic ethnographic interviewing skills. Introduction to ethnography.

ANT 296: Archaeology Field School

Participants will engage in all phases of field archaeology and laboratory analysis, including site discovery techniques, surveying, stratigraphic excavation, and recording. Working at Barwick’s Ordinary provides students the opportunity to gain experience at a prehistoric and an historic site, all in one field school.

When: May 30 - June 23, 2023 (Full Day)

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 Email Dr. Julie Markin [jmarkin2@washcoll.edu] with questions or to register.

ART 261: Introductory Drawing Studio

Monday-Friday
Instructor: Patterson

This course explores the theories and concepts of drawing from a contemporary perspective. The curriculum, while focusing on basic skills and concepts of drawing, is interdisciplinary in nature. In addition to drawing fundamentals, the course will place emphasis on connecting conceptual thinking to one's broader creative practice. Contemporary and historical examples of artists working within such a creative practice are covered through lectures and screenings. 

CMS/CRS 294: Special Topic: Headwaters to Bay

Monday-Friday
Instructor: Ford & Livie

This experiential program brings students to the intersection of arts and the environment, exploring five key topics—flow, tradition, transformation, subsidence, and resilience—through field and creative work as a pathway to understanding the modern Chesapeake Bay. Through a series of themed explorations of the Bay from its largest tributary all the way to its confluence with the ocean, students will discover how the environment and a sense of place impacts the people of the contemporary Bay region—and use their experiences to develop a unique body of creative work in response. Students will prepare for their experiences in the field with work in the classroom, dividing their time between readings, discussion, and lectures on background history, environment, and culture with arts instruction and workshops in environmental creative writing, photography and videography, sketching, journaling and watercolor. They will then embark on several two-to-three day field experiences, beginning on the Susquehanna and concluding on the Coastal Bays of the Lower Eastern Shore. Throughout, they will document their travels through journals, sketches, and/or photography/ videography. Upon returning for their final wrap-up in the classroom, students will use their work to create a final, comprehensive project. This may be an illustrated essay, photo essay or video essay that explores the meaning of place in the Chesapeake—its environmental fragility, its productivity, its beauty, its threatened culture, and its possible future

CSI 111: Computer Science 1

Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
Instructor: Lobo

Introduction to programming in Python

EDU 252: Educational Psychology

Monday-Friday 9:00am-11:45am
Instructor: Clarke-De Reza

This course reflects knowledge derived from theory, research, and professional practice as it covers human development and learning, inquiry and research, and experience-based principles of effective practice. Such practice encourages: 1) intellectual, social, and personal development; 2) creating instructional opportunities adapted to diversity in learners, e.g. individual and cross-cultural developmental variability, approaches to learning, and multiple intelligences including spatial/artistic intelligence; 3) strategies for developing critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills; and 4) formal and informal strategies for assessing intellectual, social, and physical development.  

ENG 320: The Eighteenth Century: Lost at Sea 

Monday-Friday 3:00-5:45pm
Instructor: Charles

MUS/ANT 104: Intro to World Music and Ethnomusciology

Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
Instructor: McCollum

An introduction to music of the world, including popular, folk, religious and classical traditions. Explores the way ethnomusicologists organize and analyze knowledge about the world, while investigating the ways music acquires meaning in performances that are socially, historically, and culturally situated.

MUS 106: Rock, Pop, and American Culture

Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
Instructor: Schweitzer

An examination of popular music in America from the 1830s through the modern day. With a particular emphasis being placed on the 1950s and 1960s, students will develop an understanding of the cultural, political, and economic forces of these eras and will examine how popular music history intersects with all aspects of American history and culture. This course also examines several important threads in popular music history, including the ever-present, but ever changing, role of race relations, the impact of evolving technologies, and the history of the music industry. In addition to reading the assigned textbook, students are also asked to watch/listen to important archival performances, televised interviews with notable musicians, radio interviews with scholars of popular culture, and other relevant primary sources.

PHL/REL 112: Introduction to Comparative Religion: Eastern

Monday-Friday 3:00-5:45pm
Instructor: Song

This introductory course of Eastern religions aims to increase religious literacy on the philosophical, societal, and practical aspects of four major Eastern religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism (Ruism), and Daoism. While focusing on the discussion of Eastern religions, historical and cultural distinctions of major Asian countries and areas, such as India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan, will also be studied. Students would have a chance to read comparatively the contemplative writings from Eastern traditions, and to adapt varying meditative skills to their daily life. 

PHL/REL 394: Special Topic: Confucianism and Ru Meditation

Monday-Friday 3:00-5:45pm
Instructor: Song

This course introduces the philosophical concepts, sociological foundation, political implementation, and spiritual/religious practices of the Asian Ru (Confucian) tradition. While remaining sensitive to its varying characteristics through different historical periods, the course also presents Ruism’s development across Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia, and studies its historical interaction with Western cultures. Students are encouraged to think over and practice Ruist insights in a broader context of philosophical and religious studies, while being able to compare it with other major Asian and Western philosophical and religious traditions. Special acquired skills: students will learn Meditation in Motion in its varying forms, such as breathing, sleeping, quiet-sitting and Taiji martial arts, to strengthen their mind-body general well-being and increase creativity and productivity.

THE 194: Introduction to Theatre and Performance

Monday-Friday  12:00-2;45
Instructor: Thomas

Have you ever wondered how a live performance happens?  What do people have to know and do to put on a show?  How has theatre been created throughout the pandemic?  This course is designed as an exploration of the world of theatre and performance.  Throughout the course we will study the various roles within the theatre, including that of the actor, designer, director, playwright, and dramaturg.  Each student will have the opportunity to engage these roles in direct ways through various creative projects.  This class emphasizes curiosity, exploration, and collaboration.  Additionally, students will be introduced to a brief overview of theatre history and literature as a companion study with the various theatrical roles being explored.  The class culminates in a creative group project in which students experience making a piece of virtual theatre together.  By the end of the course, students will be able to define and practice the roles of each theatrical profession, know how to read a play critically, be able to view, discuss, and write about a performance, and develop an understanding of the importance of theatre and performance as a cultural form.