Course Descriptions

One-Week Session Course Descriptions

Digital Music Production
If you have ever wanted to record your music or play with beats and loops, this course is for you. Regardless of the type of production, software, or instruments used in making music, anyone working professionally will have to interface their material with Pro Tools . The training this course provides will prepare you to interface and speak on a technical and creative level with professionals across the industry. For a more complete description, view the full outline on the 3-week program page. Brian Dozoretz, Lecturer and Manager of Recording Services, James J. Whalen Center for Music at Ithaca College.

Digital Photography
This intensive one-week course will teach digital imaging for art photography. Using their own scanned photographs and digital camera images, students will create new artwork using advanced Photoshop techniques. Danielle Mericle, Lecturer, Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts.

Sustainability Leadership
During this week, you will get an in-depth look at what sustainability really means, improve your system thinking skills to deal with complex issues, learn to communicate to a wide variety of stakeholders, and learn how issues relate at different scales (from local to global). Most importantly, you will learn to focus on solutions that honor the past, take into account multiple perspectives, and reshape the future. 

How would you like to be able to say “I am an agent of change”?  There is no reason to wait to be a leader of tomorrow when you can be a leader for positive change right now.  In the classroom and in the community, you will increase your awareness and knowledge of the big issues facing us today.  We will explore the attitudes and develop the skills required to solve these problems, and we will participate as active problem solvers in real problems. After this week, you will never view your world in quite the same way again. Jason Hamilton, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Science

The Healing Arts
Healing is part science and part art. Students will examine the artistic part of healing as practiced by diverse providers especially alternative and integrative healers. Students will explore new modalities, ask questions, and participate in the art of healing. Emphasis will be placed on meeting with and exploring the art of healing as practiced in such diverse areas as acupuncture, reiki, meditation, chiropractic, yoga and massage therapy.
Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor and Chair, Health Promotion and Physical Education.

Project Costume: One-Week Costume Design Intensive
This course will introduce students to the Costume Designer’s profession as it is applied in Theatre, Film, and Television. Students will develop an understanding of the process used by costume designers beginning with the script and moving through to research, sketches, character analysis and the vocabulary used in the profession.  They will also explore the relationship between the Costume Designer and directors and other members of the production team. We will introduce research, costume history and rendering techniques used by Costume Designers. Students will learn some basic sewing techniques and an understanding of fabrics. Gregory Robbins, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts

Story!
What’s your favorite kind of story? Is it told as a book, movie, television show, videogame, comic? Is one way of telling a story better than another? Or just different? What makes a good story? Working individually and in small groups, students will explore different types of storytelling—from fairy tales to video games—to answer these questions for themselves and to create a story or two. Elisabeth Nonas, Associate Professor and Chair, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts.

Writing the Short Story
Love writing? This minicourse will analyze both professional and student writing, with each student developing one short story emphasizing plot, characterization, dialogue, description, narration, mood, and viewpoint. Katie Marks, Assistant Professor, Writing.

Writing College Application Essays
Students will explore the college application essay, developing strategies for writing essays that inform, persuade, and engage the reader. Students examine a number of successful college essays and write, study, and critique their own essays. Jaime Warburton, Assistant Professor, Writing.

Workshop in Sports Media and Management
Interested in pursuing a career in sports media? In this workshop students get hands-on experience writing their own material while learning about a professional career in sports media. Students work in a computer lab, shoot video in a television studio, and also visit a professional sport organization to observe media members in action. Kyle Woody, Instructor, Department of Sport Management and Media.


Review also our Three Week Session Course Descriptions.