Course Descriptions and Schedule

Course Descriptions

Course Options for July 10-15, 2022

Adventures in Medicine
Have you thought about a career in healthcare? Adventures in Medicine is a fun and adventurous program with plenty of hands-on activities that represent different healthcare careers. Explore careers in medicine, nursing, social work, athletic training, exercise science, veterinary medicine, and physical therapy. Discover your passion for healthcare.

Climates of Change: An Introduction to Environmental History
At its core, history is a discipline about humanity’s past. In recent decades, however, particularly as humans have considered the fundamental challenges that such issues as climate change, nuclear war, and species extinction pose, historians have increasingly turned their focus to the changing relationship between humans and their natural environment. What have they learned in doing so? How have we shaped our environment? How has it shaped us? How, and when, did humans come to see “the environment” as something to be protected, rather than as something to be feared and conquered? How do we understand the past differently when we consider humans as one species among many others? What new perspectives can we gain on the present—and on the future—by exploring history with such questions in mind? This course will explore these questions and, in doing so, help us to gain new insights while also working together to sharpen our communication, research, reading, and critical thinking skills.

Course Options for July 18-22, 2022

The Creator Economy: Intro to Digital Entrepreneurship
Learn about entrepreneurship through the fast-growing creator economy. Discover how marketers, influencers, and creators make money through digital platforms like Fiverr, TeeSpring, TikTok, and YouTube.

Plastics Everywhere: Polymers in Our Environment
Ever wonder what is plastic? Join AU faculty and their partners in the community in exploring the science behind plastics and the environmental impact plastics have on our world. Students will work in teams to analyze the unique properties of polymers and investigate their impact on ecosystems using modern scientific instrumentation and engaging case studies. Through these investigations, students will gain an understanding of the polymer industry and the sustainability issues that have arisen around their use.