Summer Workshops
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Summer 2022 Workshop Course Descriptions
ARTS 111
The Art Experience
The Art Experience is an online introduction to visual Fine Arts literacy and criticism. The course features a brief survey of important modern Art movements and incorporates critical and formal interpretations of artworks and genres dating from 1850 to the present.
3.0 Credit Hours
ARTS 116
Designing on Silk
This workshop offers artists, educators, and individuals an opportunity to learn different methods of dyeing silk to create exciting designs and/or wearable art.
Surface design techniques include Batik, low water immersion dyeing, Shibori, direct dye painting, stamping, quilting, and discharge dyeing. Students will be encouraged to explore individual interests. Join this workshop to create exciting designs and dye happy.
0 or 3.0 Credit Hours
ARTS 128
Let’s Make Photographs!
Let’s Make Photograph’s! Is an intensive dive into the photographic arts. Learn how to actually use your camera and/or smart phone to its fullest potential, as well as some bells and whistles (flash, natural and incident light, everyday tricks and tips and free photo editing software/apps). Each day we will be looking at important photographic artists throughout contemporary art history while honing our skills at seeing the everyday mundane in a new spectacular way. Participants will investigate new methods of seeing the world around them while discussing photographic artists and their works daily.
3.0 Credit Hours
COUN 526
The WDEP System of Reality Therapy
This interactive workshop focuses on practical skills immediately useful on the job that can be integrated into other theories. It includes discussion, role-play demonstrations of cases presented by participants, monitored small group practice, and viewing/ critiquing video recordings. Participants will gain a working knowledge of choice theory, the basis of reality therapy, followed by an explanation and demonstration of the WDEP system (Wants, Doing, Evaluation, and Planning). Integrated into this session will be a review of research on Reality Therapy and a discussion of misconceptions about the practice and implementation of its principles. The connections between choice theory and neuroscience will be discusses as well as the relationship between choice theory and mindfulness. No pre-requisite required.
0 to 1.0 Credit Hour
COUN 563
Challenging Youth Counseling
Workshop participants will learn a number of practical strategies for building and maintaining therapeutic relationships with challenging youth and families. The strategies will be formatted around six guiding principles common to most human services professionals who successfully engage this population. Participants will be challenged to assess their own attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to challenging youth via lecture, demonstrations, small group activities, and role plays.
0 to 1.0 Credit Hour
EDWS 535
Understanding and Treating Dissociative Disorders
Hands-on workshop building and playing simple musical instruments. No musical or technical skills are required. Designed for the general kindergarten to 8th grade classroom teacher. Along with musical activities creative ways of teaching math, science, history, the visual arts, and multi-cultural awareness will be explored.
0 to 1.0 Credit Hour
COUN 512
Spirituality and Counseling
Effective counseling addresses the body, mind, and spirit. This course is designed to provide the students with the basic understanding of how to explore a client’s spirituality and include the role of spirituality in both the assessment and treatment plans. Topics covered in this workshop will include: why address spiritual concerns, benefits of addressing spirituality of clients and pitfalls related to spirituality. This course will also present a basic exploration of different spiritual perspectives, and how they relate to mental health of the client. Each participant will be introduced to different assessment tools of spirituality and therapeutic interventions.
0 to 1.0 Credit Hour
COUN 504
Introduction to Play
Over the course of two days, students will be introduced to Play Therapy - a theoretical and evidenced based approach to working with children and their families. In this hands-on and activity filled workshop, students will learn the who, what, where, when and why's of utilizing Play Therapy in the counseling field. Students will be presented with the history of play therapy, seminal theories of the field, current research and neuroscience that supports the use of play therapy, how to incorporate play therapy into clinical practice, and practice basic therapy skills and techniques.
0 to 1.0 Credit Hour
THEO 347
Holocaust, Religion, and Ethics
THEO 347/650 explores the Holocaust as an unprecedented genocide that was perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people during World War II. We will examine the anti-Semitic ideology of Nazism in correlation with racism, intolerance, religious anti-Judaism, and the dehumanization of individuals in the era of modern totalitarianism. Instruction will be offered in a hybrid format (online and in-person at the Holocaust and Humanity Center. Students will achieve ability to integrate the study of the Holocaust in relation to how its lessons help us address contemporary issues of antisemitism, religious intolerance, theodicy, prejudice, racism, violence, and discrimination. Students will be empowered and equipped to respond to such injustices in ethically responsible, theologically erudite and pedagogically adept ways as they prepare to be leaders in local faith communities, educational institutions, and social ministries.
3.0 Credit Hours
THEO 650
Holocaust, Religion, and Ethics
THEO 347/650 explores the Holocaust as an unprecedented genocide that was perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people during World War II. We will examine the anti-Semitic ideology of Nazism in correlation with racism, intolerance, religious anti-Judaism, and the dehumanization of individuals in the era of modern totalitarianism. Instruction will be offered in a hybrid format (online and in-person at the Holocaust and Humanity Center. Students will achieve ability to integrate the study of the Holocaust in relation to how its lessons help us address contemporary issues of antisemitism, religious intolerance, theodicy, prejudice, racism, violence, and discrimination. Students will be empowered and equipped to respond to such injustices in ethically responsible, theologically erudite and pedagogically adept ways as they prepare to be leaders in local faith communities, educational institutions, and social ministries.
3.0 Credit Hours