Already have a college degree, but need a refresher in your professional area? Interested in a college career and would like to see what a college education might be like?
Each summer Ithaca College sponsors a number of special noncredit programs that serve the per-college and post-college populations. All are taught by instructors selected from the College’s knowledgeable and highly competent faculty. The continuing professional education programs provide practitioners in various fields with an enhancement of skills and up to date knowledge. Specially designed residential academic youth programs enable qualified high school students to take advantage of the College’s extensive faculty and facilities and to experience life on a college campus. In addition to these continuing education offerings, the regular credit offerings of the institution are open to non-Ithaca College students on an extramural basis.
East Coast Artists
June 11–23
East Coast Artists offers its popular training workshop, the RasaBoxes Training Intensive at Ithaca College, sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and the Department of Theatre Arts. The workshop is designed to accommodate the skills and interests of a range of professionals and students, from actors and directors to performance artists, musicians, choreographers, drama-movement-dance therapists, teachers, playwrights, and others. This workshop will provide participants with rigorous, intensive, professional training amid Ithaca’s gorgeous, natural setting.
The workshop meets Monday through Saturday, 1:00–5:00 p.m. and 7:00–10:00 p.m., and is available for college credit or on a noncredit basis. For more information and registration materials visit www.ithaca.edu/cess/rasaboxes or call 607-274-3143.
Writing Institute
June 25–29
The Ithaca College Writing Institute is a professional development program designed to focus on the connections between writing and teaching, writing and thinking, and writing and discovery. It is based on the premise that writing is a form of inquiry, a process that helps the writer integrate feelings and thought in ways that can be transformational. The goal of the various workshops offered throughout the week is to study and practice different pedagogical methods for teaching the writing process and to offer participants the opportunity to develop their own relationship to the writing process within various genres. For more information and registration materials visit www.ithaca.edu/cess/writinginstitute or call 607-274-3143.
The Healthy Musician: Injury Prevention and Intervention for Musicians and Health Care Providers
Level I: June 16–18
Level II: June 19–20
Designed for musicians and health care providers, this comprehensive program of seminars and hands-on workshops will focus on health and musical performance. A multidisciplinary faculty will examine the physical and mental factors that affect both the musician and performance and will discuss the care and prevention of music-related injuries. For more information and registration material visit www.ithaca.edu/cess/ healthymusician or call 607-274-3143.
Media Literacy Summer Institute
July 9–13
This workshop, presented by the Ithaca College Project Look Sharp program, is designed for college faculty members, K–12 teachers, technology/media specialists, librarians, community educators, and others interested in this field of media literacy. It is a four-and-a-half day immersion course on integrating media analysis and production into any educational curriculum. There will be discussion of theory and practice as well as hands-on production training. Graduate credit is available. Further information, including registration instructions, is available by phone at 607-274-3471 or by e-mail at looksharp@ithaca.edu.
Summer Piano Institute
June 28–July 7
Talented young pianists, ages 12 to 18, are invited by Ithaca College’s School of Music to participate in 10 days of intensive piano study. The Summer Piano Institute is a comprehensive program of varied musical experience that uses the superb facilities of the James J. Whalen Center of Music, where nationally and internationally known piano faculty provide a lively array of daily lessons, workshops, classes, and supervised practice. The 10-day schedule allows for more optional practice, study, or home-work time; or the chance just to relax. Field trips, picnics, special weekend events, and other social activities are also offered. For application information visit our website at www.ithaca.edu/cess/piano or call 607-274-3143.
HealthQuest
July 9–13
The Ithaca College School of Health Sciences and Human Performance is proud to sponsor the third HealthQuest residential camp for central New York high school students entering grades 10 and 11 in fall 2007. Learn about careers in health, sport, and leisure on the beautiful Ithaca College campus, located on Ithaca’s South Hill overlooking Cayuga Lake. Students will interact with faculty and professionals in speech-language pathology, clinical exercise science, athletic training, occupational therapy, health policy studies, outdoor adventure leadership, therapeutic recreation, gerontology, community health education/physical education, social work, and clinical laboratory science. To learn more, visit www.ithaca.edu/cess or call 607-274-3143.
Ithaca College courses are open to local residents, and students enrolled in other colleges are welcome to attend as well. Summer courses taken on an extramural basis may be applied to a degree program at Ithaca College or transferred to other institutions. Fall and spring classes are also open to extramural students if space is available. To learn more, request the guide to extramural study from the summer sessions office.
