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morning courses Senior Program courses are numbered in the 100s and 200s. 100 numbered courses meet in the first period of the day; 200 numbered courses meet in the second period of the day. Courses are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Class size is limited to 16 students. The registrar makes every effort to assign you to your first choice. In the event that a class is full, you will be assigned to your next preference. On your application, you will select and rank your top 6 preferences of 100 numbered courses and your top six preferences of 200 numbered courses. 2008 senior program course listings The following courses are for the summer of 2008: performing arts 101 201 A Stage of Your Own — Acting + Directing 102 202 It’s My Line Anyway — Improv Comedy 103 203 Get Your Groove On — Hip-Hop Dance 104 Dance Dance Revolution — Modern Dance 105 STOMP! — Percussion + Movement 106 Bare Bones of Music — Music Theory + Composition 107 Skat to Scratch — Roots of American Music 108 Wax On to the Breakadawn — DJing + Music Production 204 One-Two, Cha-Cha-Cha — Ballroom Dancing 101 205 Designer Dance — Choreography 206 110% Rock — Rock Composition + Performance 207 Lift Every Voice — A Cappella 208 No Business Like Show Business — Musical Theater visual arts 110 210 Lights, Camera. . . Action! — Video Production 111 211 Primary Palette — Painting 112 212 From Sketches to Still Life — Drawing 113 213 Shutterbug — Photography 114 Improving Reality — Digital Imagery 115 Bejeweled — Jewelry Design 116 Diamond in the Rough — Found Object Art 117 Art Under Pressure — Print Making 118 Websites Done Right — Graphic Design for the Web 214 Just for the Font of It — Graphic Design 215 From Rags to Runway — Fashion Design 216 The Campus as Canvas — Public Art 217 Everyone's a Critic — Film Studies 218 Curious Curators — Art History 219 Blueprint to Build — Architecture writing + language 120 220 The Write Stuff — Creative Writing 121 Odysseys of the Pen — Adventure Literature 122 Talk With the Hand — American Sign Language 123 Go to Press! — Print Journalism 124 Explo Screen Writers Guild — Screenplay Writing 125 Not Just Another Tall Tale — Mythology 221 Once Upon an Explo — Children's Literature 222 Progressive Polyglots — English for Speakers of Other Languages 223 Calling All Newscasters — Broadcast Journalism 224 From Pen to Podium — Speechwriting humanities + social science 130 230 Let's Get Personal — Personality + Behavioral Psychology 131 Minds of Madness — Criminal Psychology 132 Inside the Athlete — Sports Psychology 133 Skin Deep — Race in America 134 Understanding Evil — Sociology of Genocide 135 Blending Borders + Beliefs — Cross-Cultural Studies 136 Questions in Time — Intro to Philosophy 137 Burning Down the House — Rock as Revolution 138 Making Peace in the War Room — The Ethics of International Relations 139 Getting to Gettysburg — Civil War Military History 231 Social Smarts — Social Psychology 232 Copious Phobias — Abnormal Psychology 233 King + X — Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement 234 Life is Beautiful? — Sociology of Oppression 235 Gender Benders — Gender Studies 236 Ethics + Ethos — Spirituality in World Cultures 237 Taking Freedom with Film — History + Hollywood 238 Care Bears + The Cold War — Society + Culture of the 1980s business, law, + world affairs 140 240 Can You Hear Me Now? — Advertising + Marketing 141 241 May It Please the Court — Mock Trial 142 242 Save the World, Anyone? — Model United Nations 143 243 Explo Apprentice — Introduction to Business Management 144 244 Show Me the Money — Investment Methods 145 The Spin Zone — Media Studies 146 Speak Easy! — Public Speaking 147 Make Your Point — Debate 148 Follow the Leader? — The History of Dictatorships 245 Making the American President Political Media Studies 246 Price, Profit, + Providing — Economics 247 Liberty and Justice for All? — Law, Controversy, + the Constitution 248 Survivor: Democracy — Comparative World Government 249 It's a Small, Small World — Globalization science, design, engineering + math 150 Body Wars — Immunology 151 The Sixth Sense — Behavioral Neuroscience 152 Crime Scene Investigation — Forensic Science 153 The Field Doctor — Sports Medicine 154 Schematic Fanatics — Introduction to Engineering 155 Mad Scientist Mother Nature — Environmental Chemistry 156 Spy Games — Cryptography 157 Playing God? — Biomedical Ethics 158 From Botox to Stem Cells — Exploring Popular Science 250 A Bone to Pick — Anatomy + Physiology 251 Cracking the Code — Genetic Engineering 252 Mechanized Miracles — Physics of Motion 253 Dr. Emergency — First-Aid Training + Certification 254 Building Under Blue Skies — Sustainable Engineering 255 B3h1nd th3 Numb3rs — Professional Mathematics 256 Applets + Applications — Java Programming 257 Geome-tree — Mathematics in Art + Nature

final presentations Students share what they have accomplished in their morning courses through end-of-the-session presentations which showcase the breadth and quality of student work at the Senior Program. Samples include: explo art show Photography, Found Object Art, Drawing, Digital Imagery, Painting, Jewelry Making. mock trials Students from the Mock Trial courses argue their cases in front of guest judges from the legal profession. explopalooza Hundreds attend this exciting evening featuring the work of our performing arts courses.

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