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Leadership Quest (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/leadership01.htm Leadership
Quest is a fun-filled, action-packed, five-day program for high school
students who wish to learn, experience, and model effective group
behavior. Through discussions, demonstrations, games, simulations, and exercises, you'll learn
about various leadership styles and be able to identify your
own leadership style. You'll learn to differentiate among the various
individual roles of group members and you'll understand the important
elements of group problem-solving. You'll be able to compare and
contrast the various results of decision-making by consensus building and
to demonstrate the knowledge and benefits of trust building in
small groups by using such skills as self-disclosure and risk-taking.
You'll learn the importance of cooperation in small groups and
you'll find out how to provide motivation, feedback, and delegation
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline: 07/07/04
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Theatre Arts (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/theatre01.htm | This
two-week workshop will have a triple focus: 1) theatre games
as a means to more expressive acting 2) the development
of stage lighting skills 3) the synthesis of these seemingly
unrelated skills into a public performance. The morning sessions will
explore acting through theatre games including sensory awareness activities, character
physicalization, truthful improvisation, and using theatre games as a rehearsal
tool for scripted work. In the afternoon sessions, students will
work on the basic materials and processes of stage lighting,
hanging, focusing, and computer programming of light cues and more
advanced stage lighting projects. Both sessions will culminate in a
final showcase where students will perform their acting scenes in
the actual lighting plots they have developed.
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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French Today! (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/france01.htm Curious
about the French education system? Want to hear the latest
in French music? Or would you just like to build
up your French language skills? In La France Aujourd'hui, students
explore contemporary French civilization in a linguistic immersion environment. Topics
may include geography, a historical overview, government and politics, the
arts, education and media. Learning activities will include extensive use
of electronic media for research and presentations of cultural topics
and current events. A variety of engaged learning approaches will
seek to strengthen proficiency in five language areas: spoken, written,
listening, reading and cultural. Classroom learning will be supplemented by
time in Furman's state-of-the-art Language Resource Center while out-of-class activities
such as films, games and conversation will broaden learning opportunities.
Students will be actively engaged in information-gathering activities on the
World Wide Web, reading news articles, listening to live media
reports and preparing presentations for classmates.
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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Writing About Film: Creative and Critical Eyes (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/film01.htm Writing
About Film will seek to develop the student's writing skills
by focusing on the compelling ways in which films work
to engage audiences. As a visual medium, film can often
resist easy translation into written expression; yet film's condensed and
complex forms of expression also solicit a particular appreciation and
understanding that only careful writing (descriptive, interpretive and argumentative modes)
can yield. The class will explore how many important filmmakers
themselves began or continued to work as creative writers of
scripts and/or critical interpreters of film.
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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Flash It! Automations of the Mind (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/graphic01.htm | Students
will integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich
experiences, and stunning animations. Macromedia’s Flash MX is the industry
standard tool for creating rich Internet applications and video experiences.
This one-week course will provide both novices and experienced users
with opportunities to develop interactive animations. Other applications topic areas
covered: web design, graphic arts, digital video and sound. This
course would be ideal for students interested in graphic arts
or animation technologies.
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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Psychology: Understanding Ourselves and Others (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/psychology.htm | Why
do you do something a certain way? Why do others
react like they do? How do you control your behavior?
Or, the behavior of others? How do you form opinions
of others? How do others view you? As a rising high
school junior or senior, you're in the process of becoming
an independent adult, rather than simply being someone's child or
sibling. The goal of this course is to help you
understand your own choices, feelings and actions as well as
the basic motives behind others' behavior. You will explore the
origin and impact of cognitive attitudes and beliefs, consider the
adaptive important of your emotional expressions, and identify the useful
purpose of your behavioral habits. The course will involve some
basic instructor presentation, group reading and discussion, field observation, film
discussion, a field trip to a local mental health facility
and exercises dseigned to prompt personal insights and a greater
sense of social connection.
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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A Mock Trial (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/trial01.htm Thinking
of a career in law? Curious about the American judicial
system, courtroom procedures, and the components of a trial? If
you answered yes, this Summer Scholars Program is for you.
The program educates high school students by introducing them to
trial practice techniques utilized by the American Mock Trial Association.
Students will focus on the hypothetical criminal case, State of
Midlands v. Michael Harmon. Using this case, the course will
teach participants proper courtroom etiquette, direct and cross examination tactics,
the structure of opening and closing statements, the federal rules
of evidence, and other matters related to trial advocacy in
a criminal matter. Students will be divided into prosecution and
defense trial teams; at the end of the week the
case will be tried in the federal courthouse. After classroom
instruction, students will be responsible for developing case themes, preparing
direct and cross-examination questions for witnesses, and drafting opening statements
and closing arguments. Students from Furman's mock trial team will
assist practicing attorneys who coach the Furman team..
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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Fit for Life: Introduction to Health and Human Performance (Summer Scholars)
www.furman.edu/summerscholars/health01.htm | Interested
in health, fitness, exercise or nutrition? This week long Summer
Scholars program, sponsored by the Health and Exercise Science department,
is designed to inform students about the critical components of
active and healthy living and the various career opportunities in
the field of health and human performance. Participants will study
the topics vital to good health and fitness and experience
activities which they might not otherwise try. Practicing what they
preach, program directors will lead participants in daily physical activity.
Each student will craft a personal fitness and wellness plan,
and activities related to that plan will be included in
the daily programs. The Furman Fitness Center and the spacious
walkways, roadways and playing fields of our campus will be
enjoyed every day. Students will also experience the opportunity of
physiological assessments of human fitness in our Molnar Human Performance
Laboratory, a teaching and research facility equipped for the study
of anatomy, exercise physiology, kinesiology, and motor learning. Fitness assessments
(body composition and aerobic capacity) will be available for all
interested students
Program Cost:
Contact: Anne.Chubb@furman.edu
Phone: 864-294-2155
Deadline:
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