Special and Overseas Programs
Advanced Placement Institute for
Teachers of Advanced Placement Courses
The Advanced Placement Institute offers one-week courses for Advanced Placement teachers of Chemistry for New and Experienced Teachers, English Literature and Composition for New and Experienced Teachers, United States History for New and Experienced Teachers , English Language and Composition, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Psychology, U.S. Government and Politics and Spanish Language. The Institute classes begin June 15 and end June 19. The courses are taught by experienced consultants and readers from the College Board who regularly teach advanced placement courses in each subject.
Visit the Advanced Placement Summer Institute Web site for more information or e-mail wakeap@wfu.edu
Intensive Summer Language Institute (ISLI)
Wake Forest University Campus
The Intensive Summer Language Institute offers (SPN 153S) Intensive Intermediate Spanish and (SPN 213) Encounters: Hispanic Literature and Culture, an accelerated five-week course. ISLI is designed to develop intermediate proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The revised program allows students to complete their divisional requirement by the end of the semester.
Classes offer smaller enrollments to allow for more individualized instruction. Requirements include daily classes, six hours per day; one-hour daily lunches with instructors in the target language; two-hour extracurricular activities two evenings per week; two Saturday mornings; and a pledge to speak the target language. Housing is possible in a language designated residence hall.
The deadline for registration is April 15. Contact Encarna Turner by that date if you wish to be housed in a language designated residence hall. Visit the Intensive Summer Language Institute Web site for more information.
The Learn-to-Learn Course
Taught on the Wake Forest University campus since 1972, these two-week study skills courses teach students how to learn more efficiently. Courses are offered for middle school, high school and college students who want to improve in school. Sessions are offered in June and July.
For more information visit www.studyskills.net, e-mail
info@studyskills.net, or phone: 800.969.0525.
Master of Arts in Education
The Department of Education offers the master of arts in education degree in the areas of biology, chemistry, English, French, mathematics, physics, social studies and Spanish. These programs have been approved by the Board of Education of North Carolina as meeting state license requirements.
One-half tuition scholarships are available to teachers currently teaching in Southern Association-certified public or private schools who wish to enroll for graduate courses in the summer. For courses offered this summer, see the education curriculum section of this bulletin.
For those who wish to attend summer session as degree-seeking graduate students, application should be made to the dean of the Graduate School. The graduate bulletin and forms for admission and financial assistance can be obtained from the Graduate School.
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS)
The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies is designed for adults who wish to pursue advanced studies in the liberal arts to satisfy their intellectual curiosity and for their own pleasure.
Application forms and further details can be found at the Graduate School Web site or by calling 336.758.5232. For courses offered, see the curriculum section of the 2009 Summer Session Bulletin.
Museum of Anthropology Day Camps
Three sessions of summer camps for children will be offered: July 6-10, July 13-17, and July 20-24. The theme for summer 2009 is Archaeology: Can You Dig It? Call 336.758.5643 or visit the museum summer camp Web site.
Social Stratification in the Deep South
The on-site component of this course (SOC 318) is focused in three primary areas: ethnographic observation of social stratification in the American Deep South, service learning, and community experts. The travel is structured around important key sites in the attempt to understand the social history for civil rights. Specifically, students spend time living and learning in local communities and meeting with local experts.
In Birmingham, Alabama, students meet with Barbara Shores Lee, the first African American woman appointed to the southeast circuit court and Peggy Heidi, a local teacher, who grew up on Dynamite Hill. Peggy Heidi will lead a guided tour of Dynamite Hill that includes a visit to local citizens who lived there during the bombings and continue to live there today.
The trip also includes a multi-day visit to the Mississippi Delta region, including Cleveland, Merigold, (to hear live, local Blues in one of the few remaining authentic juke joints), and Sumner (the site of the Emmitt Till trial).
In Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, students spend two days participating in a service learning project with the Hancock County library -- a project that was begun in the summer of 2007. Additional major sites will include New Orleans: a tour of the lower 9th Ward, meetings with ACORN (a local housing agency, also setting up "transitional" housing for returning residents who have been incarcerated, hospitalized for drug use etc), and a day-long tour and information session (including meetings with inmates) at Parchman prison farm (Parchman, Mississippi).
For more information contact Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies Angela Hattery or Professor of Sociology Earl Smith.
Southern Appalachia
The Department of Anthropology sponsors a field school in cultural anthropology and community development in Southern Appalachia. Students must sign up for both ANT 383 (Human Ecology of the Southern Appalachians) and ANT 384 (Sustainable Community Development in Southern Appalachia). These two courses provide students with the knowledge and skills to understand changing human-environment relationships in the southern Appalachian region and to apply these understandings to the assessment of, and potential solutions to, contemporary socio-environmental issues in the area. Students explore Native American land-use practices, the impact of early European settlements and the region's incorporation into the global marketplace, development and the growth of industry and tourism in the area, and current social and environmental issues including mountain top removal, logging, ecovillages, and landscape and community remediation endeavors.
Students will have the opportunity to explore Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Grandfather Mountain Bio-Preserve, visit a bio-diesel plant and methane recovery facility, spend several days at both Earthaven Ecovillage and Celo Community (one of the oldest intentional communities in the country), hike a section of the Appalachian Trail, and go whitewater rafting on the Ocoee River. Students both camp and stay in hotels.
Dates are June 1 to June 30. For more information, contact Eric Bowne, Department of Anthropology, PO Box 7807, Winston Salem, NC 27109/ 336.758.5945.
Summer Management Program
This intensive program (BUS 295, 8 hours/Pass-Fail) is designed for rising juniors and rising seniors (non-business majors) interested in acquiring an understanding of fundamental business concepts.
The integrated curriculum involves study in accounting, finance, information systems, management, strategy, marketing, legal issues in business, operations, human resources, and entrepreneurship, and exposes students to critical issues in today's business climate. The approach of the program incorporates lectures, team assignments, business simulation, and case studies. It is highly interactive. No specific technical requirements are required. Eight hours toward graduation will be granted upon successful completion of the program. The program occurs during Summer Session I.
Admission to this program is by application only and is competitive. For more information, visit the Summer Management Program Web site or contact Ben King, Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, P.O. Box 7285, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7285, 336.758.4903.
Summer Research Programs
Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Bowman Gray Campus
Two summer programs at the Wake Forest University Graduate School, Bowman Gray Campus, offer hands-on research experience in laboratories, a lecture series, and an inside preview of career opportunities in biomedical research and education.
Rising junior and senior undergraduates may apply to the Summer Research Opportunities Program in Biomedical Sciences. The Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences Summer Research Program is open to minority undergraduate students at any level and master students.
The deadline for applications is Feb. 9. Applications are available online through the Graduate School Web site. For more information, e-mail the Graduate School Office or call 336.716.4224.
WAKE Washington, D.C. Program
Using a separate, preliminary application and interview process, Wake Forest University students (rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors) are selected to participate in a 10 1/2-week summer internship in Washington, D.C. Each student receives 8 hours credit from the combination of an internship (5h) and an academic course (3h). All portions of the WAKE Washington D.C. program occur in and around the nation's Capitol between May 27 and August 8 and are coordinated onsite in affiliation with The Washington Center. For further information about program costs, housing, credits, and application, contact Associate Dean Paul N. Orser.
Overseas Programs
Africa
Study in Benin. The program combines classroom instruction with field trips, and homestays. Professor Boko teaches a course titled "Current Issues in African Development." Additionally, students attend lectures led by selected faculty members of the National University of Benin, and other Beninese experts. These lectures cover a variety of topics, including the arts, politics, history, religion, and development policies in Africa.
Field trips include visits to Abomey, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Danhomey; to the seaside city of Ouidah, an ancient slave port; to development project sites; and to agricultural and industrial sites throughout the country.
During the course of the program, students spend one week with selected host-families in the capital city of Porto-Novo and the economic capital of Cotonou. This provides an opportunity for students to experience daily life in Benin.
Dates are May 30-June 30. For more information contact Sylvain H. Boko, Department of Economics, P. O. Box 7505, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7505. Office phone: 336.758.4461.
Austria
Introduction to Film (COM 246) will be taught by Mary Dalton during first session at Wake Forest's Flow House. The course features films relevant to the region, and the class is structured so that students have long weekends for travel, including a weekend field trip to Prague. There is NO language requirement for this summer program. Introduction to Film meets a lower division requirement for Division IV: Social Science. The course is also a required course for the film studies minor, an elective in the media studies concentration of the communication major, and an elective that counts toward the communication general major and toward the communication minor.
Dates are May 16-June 12. For more information e-mail Mary Dalton or call 336.758.6120.
Austrian Economics (ECN 271). Originating from the University of Vienna, Austrian Economics is an alternative approach to mainstream economics. Austrian Economics emphasizes deductive reasoning instead of mainstream quantitative methods, the importance of private property, the problems of social planning, the importance of entrepreneurship, and political decentralization. Austrian economists conceive of competition as a process of learning and discovery and were the early opponents to Marxism and social planning. Austrian Economics has proven to be important in influencing fiscal and monetary policy. Studying topics in the field requires an interdisciplinary discussion of economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.
Dates are June 29-July 24. For more information e-mail Bryan McCannon or call 336.758.5130.
Europe
Eurotour. A guided tour of Europe to study its physical, economic, social, and cultural environments will be offered during the first term of the summer session. Cities to be visited include Amsterdam, Paris, Interlaken, Florence, Rome, Venice, Budapest, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Copenhagen, and London. ART 103, Survey of Western Art and ART 281, 19th Century Art, provide 3 hours credit each in Division III. CSC 101, Overview of Computer Science, provides 4 hours credit in Division V. All courses are divisionals and require permission of instructor.
Dates are May 21-June 25.
For additional information e-mail William Turkett, Department of Computer Science; Jay Curley, Department of Art; or Morna O'Neill, Vanderbilt University, or check the tour tour Web site.
England
Introduction to Religion: Pluses and Minuses of Multiple Faiths (REL 101) This course is conducted at the Worrell House in London and introduces students to the problematic nature of religion as well as some of the major religious traditions in the world. London is the most religiously diverse urban center in the world today, and we will take advantage of our setting to explore the ways religious diversity can enhance communities as well as the practical problems raised by such diversity.
Dates are July 15 to August 12. For more information contact Kenneth Hoglund/336.758.5461 or write to the Department of Religion, Wake Forest University, Box 7212, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109
England and France
Calloway School trip to Bordeaux (ACC 221) The London and Bordeaux program is based at the Worrell House (2 weeks) and at the Bordeaux Business School (2 weeks). The Worrell House is centrally located in London, near Regent's Park, with easy access to all major attractions in London. Located in southwest France, Bordeaux is known for its world-class wines, impressive 18th-century architecture, wide avenues and well-tended parks. In recent years, this city of approximately 800,000 residents has undergone extensive renovations. It is home to excellent museums, a vibrant night life and a diverse population that includes more than 60,000 university students. The Bordeaux Business School has a major emphasis on international business education.
Dates are June 29-July 30. All Caloway majors are welcome to apply. Other majors are eligible with permission of instructor. Visit the Study Abroad Web site or contact Terry Baker or Helen Baucom for more information.
France
Tours, France Summer Study (FRH 212, 216) The summer study abroad program in Tours, France is based at the Institut de Touraine, a highly regarded language school affiliated with the University of Tours. The city of Tours, with its many parks and formal gardens, café-lined boulevards, and thriving university, is situated along the banks of the Loire River, an hour by train from Paris. A vibrant cultural center, Tours hosts jazz, rock, and classical music festivals in June.
Students live with host families and take 9 hours of coursework. The program is designed to accommodate both intermediate students completing the basic requirement and more advanced students. Students who have completed FRH 112 or 113 take intensive intermediate French at the Institut de Touraine concurrently with FRH 212; this enables them to satisfy Wake Forest's basic language requirement in an immersion setting. Advanced students who have already completed the language requirement can earn credit toward the major or minor in French by completing advanced intermediate conversation and grammar training at the Institut de Touraine along with a FRH 216 course in francophone literature and culture.
Trips will be organized to Versailles and to several chateaux of the Loire Valley. There may also be an excursion to Mont Saint Michel. Optional boating, hiking, sports, and cultural activities are organized by the Institut de Touraine.
For more information e-mail Veronique McNelly in the Department of Romance Languages or call 336.758.4207.
Germany
Re-Imaging Berlin. A fine art, digital photography course. Students research the history and location of specific historical documents, such as the photographs from the airlift of 1948 and the film of President Kennedy's "Ich Bin ein Berliner" speech. Other locations include Checkpoint Charlie, Potsdamer Platz and the new Reichstag. Students travel to these sites and re-photograph the area. Each student creates a body of images, which will be printed on a desktop ink-jet printer for regular critiques. Fulfills CD and Division III requirements.
Dates are July 6-August 2. For more information e-mail John Pickel or write to the Department of Art, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7232, Winston-Salem, NC 27109; or call 336.758.4177.
Italy
ITA 113V, 153. Also being offered is a course on Italian history and culture as seen through its music. MUS 214. The Language of Music in Italy, introduces students to the role that music has played in Italian society from the Middle Ages to the present day. Important musical innovations, such as the invention of opera in the 17th century or the concerto in the 18th, are seen as part of the broader culture. Music is used to shed light on Italian language, painting, and even food traditions. Includes site-visits to places of musical and cultural interest in Venice and the surrounding areas. P—POI.
Dates are May 15-June 24. For information contact Roberta Morosini, Department of Romance Langauges.
Jamaica
Tropical Marine Ecology (BIO 344S/644S). Tropical Marine Ecology is an intensive field-oriented course focusing on tropical marine ecosystems and their biological communities. Emphasis is on biodiversity, the ecology of dominant taxa, the interaction between physical and biological processes, and the structure and function of representative communities. Includes 2 weeks at the former Hofstra University Marine Laboratory in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, mid-way on the north coast. Additional cultural/travel activities include climbing Dunn's River Falls, a craft market in Ocho Rios, a mountain hike with a local herbalist, a trip inland to Bob Marley's hometown and mausoleum, and a swim in Glistening Waters, a natural wonder. P—Minimum of 1 year of college biology including BIO 113, plus permission of the instructor.
Trip dates are May 29-June 12. For more information, e-mail Ron Dimock, or call 336.758.5567.
Mexico
Maya Program, Chiapas, Mexico (ANT 383/384). The Department of Anthropology offers a 4-week study program in Chiapas, Mexico, focusing on the Maya experience. The program combines onsite instruction and service-learning with field trips, village stays, and applied ethnographic projects. The program begins in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, and then moves from the edge of the Lacandon rainforest to the Chiapas canyons. Each of these locales offers an opportunity for village based service and research as well as access to archeological sites.
Field experiences include: learning about coffee production, marketing and conservation from local farmers; seeing a social movement in action with the Zapatistas; investigating Maya religion with a Maya shaman; learning about plants and herbs from midwives and healers; learning about artisan production at a women's weaving cooperative; exploring cultural preservation issues at the archeological sites of Palenque, Tonina. Opportunity is presented to learn/improve Spanish and Tzotzil Maya.
Dates are July 14 to August 4 (tentative). Enrollment is limited. POI is required. For more information, e-mail Jeanne Simonelli, Department of Anthropology or call 336.758.5945.
Wake Forest/ITESM Collaborative Summer Session in Querétaro. Wake Forest's Department of Romance Languages offers students wishing to learn Spanish in an immersion setting a summer study abroad program at the prestigious Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey at its campus in Querétaro, Mexico. Students live with Mexican host families and take 6-9 hours of coursework. The curriculum includes courses in Spanish language at all levels, Wake Forest's SPN 213 class, (taught by our faculty director), Spanish for the Medical Professions, and several advanced Spanish and Latin American Studies courses. In addition to their coursework students will engage in the rich culture and natural life of Mexico through a series of excursions to Mexico City, the Pre-Columbian ruins of Teotihuacan, the artistic city of San Miguel de Allende and the beautiful waterfalls of Huasteca Potosina.
This program will be particularly attractive to students of intermediate Spanish and beginning Hispanic literature because it expedites the fulfillment of Wake Forest's basic requirement in foreign languages. Students may take intermediate Spanish and SPN 213 concurrently by taking 6 hours of intermediate Spanish in conjunction with the 3 hour SPN 213.
Students wishing to take intermediate Spanish and SPN 213 concurrently may do so in Querétaro by taking six hours of intermediate language in conjunction with the three-hour SPN 213.
Except for SPN 213, which is a Wake Forest course, classes earn transfer credit.
For information contact Patricia Swier, Romance Langauges.
Courses offered:
213. Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Culture. (3) Selected readings in Spanish and Spanish-American literature. Does not count toward the major or the minor. P or C—SPN 153 or the equivalent.
ITESM courses offered:
Elementary Spanish (6); Intermediate Spanish (6); Advanced Spanish (6); SPN 213 (for Wake Forest credit); Mexican Culture (3); Spanish for the Medical Professions (3); Spanish for Business (3); Poverty and Development (3); Ecology and Development (3); Mexican Literature (3); Mexican Theatre (3); Latin American Literature (3).
Morocco
Arabic Language Institute in Fez. The summer study abroad program in Morocco offers a unique opportunity for immersion in an ancient and complex cultural setting. The program is based at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF). Fez is a medieval city in the heart of Morocco. The Institute is housed in a large Moorish-style villa situated in a residential neighborhood and is within easy walking distance of shops, restaurants, and cafes. Students are housed with Moroccan families that have been approved by ALIF. There will be a number of weekend excursions to other locations in the country, such as Rabat, Tangiers, and Casablanca as well as excursions to the mountains and the desert. All students take a 3h area studies course, which this summer will be ART/COM 370: North African Cinema. (If taken as ART 261, this course fulfills the Division III requirement.) The principal academic work enters on a 6h language course in one of the following: Beginning Arabic, Intermediate Arabic, or Intermediate French.
Dates are May 29-July 16. For more information, contact Peter Brunette,, Film Studies, Departments of Art and Communication.
Nicaragua
Volcanoes, rain forests, and beaches are probably not the first things that come to mind when people think about Nicaragua, but Nicaragua is a country ripe with natural beauty. Underlying that beauty, however, is an economy that ranks Nicaragua as the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere.
This summer 8-12 students will experience both of these sides of Nicaragua through involvement in two summer courses. Students will take HES 384. Special Topics: Health Issues on a Global Scale with professor Gary Miller and COM 370: Communicating for Health Behavior Change with professor Steven Giles (each course is 3 credit hours).
The first two weeks of the courses consist of intensive on-campus course work. Students will then be accompanied to Managua, Nicaragua, where they will engage in service-learning projects in educational and medical settings. Experiences include volunteering in acute care clinics, physical therapy/rehabilitation, university-based research, and public and private elementary schools. At the end of each day, reflection and discussion will occur among the group.
Group excursions will be arranged to coffee plantations in the mountains, communities along the Pacific coast, kayaking waters around Grenada, shopping at local open-air markets, and hiking trails through volcanoes.
Students must possess a proficient level of Spanish to fully benefit from these experiences.
Students who participate in this trip will receive financial compensation through a Lilly Grant. One critical aspect of the Lilly Grant is the vocational exploration of students through service.
Dates are May 27-July 1. For more information, contact Steven Giles, Department of Communication, 336.758.4442.
Peru
Tropical Biodiversity (BIO 349S, 649S and HST 352) is an in-depth, hands-on field course exposing students to the rich and varied ecosystems of the tropics, from absolute deserts to glaciers to tropical rain forests. Students travel through the spectrum of tropical ecosystems and are exposed to some of the wildest and most pristine areas left on the planet. The course combines lectures on the history, generation, maintenance, and future of tropical biodiversity with field projects on a variety of plant and animal topics, from conservation to tree diversity to primate behavior. Permission of the instructor is required.
Trip dates are June 1-28. For more information, e-mail Miles Silman, Department of Biology, 336.758.5596.
Portugal
European Prehistory and Archeological Field School. This course combines the academic study of European prehistory with hands-on training in the methods that archeologists use to learn about the past. The course introduces students to archeological survey methods, mapping techniques, excavation procedures, artifact analysis, and laboratory conservation. It combines lectures and demonstrations with participation in ongoing archeological fieldwork. Excursions include visits to Paleolithic rock art sites in the Coa valley, Megalithic stone monuments and tombs near Evora, Roman ruins at Conimbriga, and the unusual medieval settlement near Alcobertas.
The Portuguese National Archeological Museum and other institutions will host lectures on special topics. Students will expose and restore mosaic floors from a newly discovered Roman villa near the historic center of Rio Maior and conduct a pioneering study of Islamic period storage silos. The course is taught in English, and students from all disciplines are welcome to apply.
The five-week program runs from May 25-June 28. For more information e-mail Paul Thacker, Department of Anthropology, 336.758.5497.
Spain
Internships. Offered during both summer sessions, this program is recommended for students who wish to further their knowledge of the Spanish language and culture in a number of professional areas, such as the business, communication, consulting, medical and health professions, sciences, politics, teaching, social services, and translation. Housing is with Spanish families. Internships are worth 1.5 or 3 credit hours. A course on language study in the context of an internship and an orientation trip to sites of cultural interest are also offered. Taking the language course, SPN 316I, together with the internship, SPN 199, yields a total of 6 credit hours of which 3 count toward the major or minor in Spanish.
For information e-mail Candelas Gala, Department of Romance Languages.
Vietnam
The Pro Humanitate Center and the Lilly Grant are sponsoring a Vietnam summer study abroad program during second summer session 2009. The program will begin in Winston-Salem, where students spend two weeks in intensive study, prior to international travel. Students should be prepared for long hours during the on-campus portion of the program. Program participants then travel to Vietnam where they will engage in cultural travel and participate in a service project in a small village.
Three courses will be offered. POL 114/252. World Political Economy: Vietnam in Comparative Perspective taught by Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science; and ESE 320 Social Entrepreneurship and ESE101 Foundations of Entrepreneurship taught by Elizabeth Gatewood, director of the entrepreneurship and social enterprise minor. Additional work is required to receive credit for ESE 101.
The in-country portion of the program begins in Ho Chi Minh City. Students have the opportunity to travel to various locations in the country to experience different aspects of Vietnam and its people and culture. An optional trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia and Vientienne, Laos is available for students at the completion of the trip.
For additional information about the program, couses, and costs, students should contacct Mary Gerardy 336.758.5229. Students may register for the program online at the Center for International Studies Web site.
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