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Summer High School Program
Ave Maria University is excited to host its 5th annual High School Summer Program this July 2010. The summer program is designed for students entering their junior and senior years of high school and high school graduates who wish to experience the dynamic balance of life and academics at the college level.
Week 1 Course Options - July 11-17, 2010
• C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Magic and Miracles
Week 2 Course Options: July 18-24, 2010
• Biology: Bacterial Friends and Enemies
• Theology of John Paul II and Theology of the Body
Week 3 Course Options: July 25-31, 2010
• Biology: Bacterial Friends and Enemies
• Theology of John Paul II and Theology of the Body
General Information
What is offered? A weeklong opportunity to experience the dynamic social and spiritual life of Ave Maria University, combined with an array of academic programs to appeal to a variety of academic interests (see course titles and descriptions below).
Who is invited? High School students entering their junior or senior year and high school graduates.
When are the sessions? There are three separate weeklong sessions.
Week 1: July 11-17, 2010
Week 2: July 18-24, 2010
Week 3: July 25-31, 2010
Where is it held? Ave Maria University's beautiful, state-of-the-art campus in Ave Maria, FL. Ave Maria is located in Southwest Florida, 20 miles east of Naples.
What does it cost? $500 for any (1) weeklong session (includes tuition, room, board, and all activities). If students wish to attend more than 1 week, the cost is $400 for the second week and $300 for the third week.
AMU is also hosting its 3rd annual Youth Conference from July 9-11. If students attend this Conference the $115 fee will be deducted from the overall price of the Summer Program. Check out the Youth Conference by clicking here!
Any questions? Please contact Stephanie Smith at (239) 304-7079 or stephanie.smith@avemaria.edu.
Course Information and Instructor Biographies
Ave Maria University offers three week-long sessions of its high school summer program. Participants attend only one course per session. If an applicant is interested in multiple course offerings, he may choose to attend more than one weekly session and participate in a different course each week.
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Myth, Magic and Miracles
This course focuses on the common themes of myth, magic and miracles in the writings of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Best known today for his fiction, Lewis also produced a large body of nonfiction work, engaging both the imagination and the intellect in defense of traditional Christianity. Students will examine Miracles, Lewis' brilliant argument for the necessity of affirming the existence of God and the compelling reasonability of accepting Jesus Christ for what he claimed to be.
In their study of J.R.R. Tolkien, students will examine his life and his philosophy of myth in order to understand the Catholic influence on Tolkien's seminal work The Lord of the Rings. They will then study the work itself, unlocking the layers of religious applicability that emerge from the story.
Required Reading:
Students should carefully read and bring with them the following works:
C.S. Lewis: Miracles
J.R.R. Tolkien: Tree and Leaf; The Lord of the Rings
Instructors:
Dr. Michael Dauphinais
Dr. Michael Raiger
EXPERIENCING DRAMA
This course is designed for students with all levels of experience - from those trying drama for the first time to those with extensive theatrical experience. Students will explore basic acting theory, contemporary theater, Shakespeare, and more. The week will finish with a small showcase of scenes and monologues that each student will work on throughout the week.
Biology
Bacterial Friends and Enemies
Natural and synthetic discovery of new antibiotics
In the 2008 Summer Science Week, students will take a hands-on look at the world of the bacteria and antibiotics. In the lab students will sample the tremendous diversity of bacteria living on and around us. The small sub-set of these bacteria that cause disease are a serious problem, and these bacteria are most commonly treated with antibiotics. In this summer program students will attempt to discover new antibiotics using natural and synthetic approaches.
Instructors
The labs in the summer science week are taught by professors from the Department of Biology and Chemistry at Ave Maria University.
Dr. Paula Castagnet studies the metabolism of polyunsaturated lipids in the retina and the brain. She teaches courses in pharmacology and general biology.
Dr. Stephen Cronin has studied plant viruses and the cell biology of yeast and teaches genetics and microbiology.
Dr. Ernesto Quintero's research interests include the production of bioactive metabolites such as antibiotics by marine bacteria and estuarine microbial.
Dr. James Peliska's research interests include the study of the mechanisms of mutation generation in organisms leading to the development of drug resistance and the characterization of novel HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Format:
Students will spend 4 hours a day in the lab and take a guided field trip to explore the wildlife of Southwest Florida.
Tentative Schedule:
Monday The bacteria around us
Tuesday The perplexing problem of antibiotic resistance
Wednesday How bacteria spread resistance to their neighbors
Thursday Searching for antibiotics in nature
Friday Discovery of antibiotics with synthetic chemistry
THE LATIN EXPERIENCE
Experience Latin in this one-week immersion program. Begin to speak, to read, to write, to sing and to pray the perennial language. There will be sessions for true beginners as well as intermediate students. The focus will be primarily on learning conversationally, with memorization of formulae to promote conversation and learning by association of actions and words. Co-curricular activities will include music sessions, common meals with instructors and students, and performances of skits.
Course Instructor:
Bradley Ritter, Ph.D., is assistant professor of classics and early Christian literature. He has taught at both Temple University and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Civic Integration of Jews in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire. His main research interests are the Jewish Diaspora in the Greek and Roman worlds, Hellenistic and early Roman imperial history. He received his M.A. in Latin and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Required Reading:
Lingua Latina, Pars Prima: Familia Romana
The Theology of Pope John Paul II & THEOLOGY OF THE BODY
This course will feature an overview of the vast theological works produced by the late Pope John Paul II/Karol Wojtyla, with a special emphasis on the idea of vocation in the Holy Father's work. Students will explore the theology of the body, consecrated life and marriage in the context of John Paul II's theology.
Course Instructors:
Michael Waldstein, Ph.D. is the Max Seckler Professor of Theology. He previously served as founding president of the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria, and was the St. Francis of Assisi Professor of New Testament there. He is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family and is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. He holds the degrees of B.A. from Thomas Aquinas College in California, Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Dallas, S.S.L. from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and a Th.D. in New Testament from Harvard Divinity School. His published works include his definitive translation of John Paul II's Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, "The Common Good in St. Thomas and John Paul II" (Nova et Vetera), and "Dietrich von Hildebrand and St. Thomas Aquinas on Goodness and Happiness" (Nova et Vetera).
Dr. Daniel Dentino is Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Ave Maria University. Dr. Dentino holds a B.A. from Franciscan University of Steubenville and an M. A. in Religious Studies from Providence College, and a Ph.D/M.B.D. in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University. The subject of Dr. Dentino's dissertation was on the Christian Anthropology of Theology of the Body of Pope John Paul II. Dr. Dentino teaches Sacred Scripture and the Theology of Pope John Paul II at Ave Maria University.
Cubes and CODES: The Mathematics of Fun and Profit (or Loss)
Cubes with Dr. Jorge Calvo. A standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube has 6 sides each of which has 9 colored stickers. By turning 21 moving pieces, these 54 surfaces can be rearranged into more than 43 quintillion possible configurations. Allowing a second for each turn, it would take 1 400 trillion years to go through all of these configurations. However, using a little mathematics, we can find our way to the ONE solution in considerably less time.
Crashes with Dr. Michael Marsalli. Did Wall Street's "rocket scientists" and their complicated mathematical models cause the recent market turmoil? What is a credit default swap anyway? This session will be a gentle introduction to some of the basic mathematical ideas in financial engineering: interest, leverage, present and future value, forward contracts, futures, and options. A knowledge of intermediate algebra, exponents, and graphing would be helpful.
Course Instructors:
Dr. Calvo's greatest achievement was solving the Rubik's Cube on national TV in just over one minute, thereby becoming the unofficial Rubik's Cube Champion of Costa Rica at the age of ten. People in his home town of Moravia still stop him in the street and say, "Jorge, I remember when you were a little kid and you did that thing with the cube on TV." He earned his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He taught at Williams College and North Dakota State Univeristy (NDSU) before joining the faculty at Ave Maria University in 2004. He has written several articles and edited two volumes on geometric knot theory, and was the 2003 recipient of the NDSU College of Science and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Teaching. But nobody wants to talk about that. It's Rubik's Cube this and Rubik's Cube that. Nevertheless, Dr. Calvo is not bitter.
Dr. Michael Marsalli is Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. He previously taught at Illinois State University and Ave Maria College in Michigan. He specializes in operator algebras. He is also interested in fostering an adequate understanding of mathematics as a liberal art integrated within the broader curriculum. Dr. Marsalli holds the degrees of A.B. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
THE ART OF WRITING
Ave Maria’s Summer Program in Writing is designed to be a formative experience for high school students who want to develop their writing talents, both critical and creative. This one-week seminar (offered twice) aims to attract bright, young high school students to Ave Maria University to share their ideas and writings with professors and each other. Our goal is to help these students grow in an appreciation of literature and the art of writing as they prepare for college and beyond.
Program Goals
· To foster a love of reading and writing in today’s high school students
· To guide each student in the art of communication via a well-mapped syllabus focusing on 20th-century literature
· To awaken in each student an understanding of the relevance of literature to life and its importance in their personal formation
· To provide each student with one-on-one attention with critical/argumentative and creative writing as they grapple with and explore the literature of the masters
Desired Outcomes of this Program
· The completion and presentation of a critical/argumentative essay
· The completion and presentation of a short creative manuscript
Director Bio’s:
Dr. Mark McCullough
Mark A. McCullough, Ph.D., is assistant professor of literature at Ave Maria University. He specializes in American literature; his dissertation addressed faith and romantic imagination in poetry from Richard Henry Dana to Herman Melville. Dr. McCullough holds the degrees of Ph.D. in English and M.A. in Literature from the City University of New York and a B.A. in the Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
Dr. Ellen Fangman
Ellen Fangman received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and her M.A. in Literature from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her dissertation, entitled, A Life in Letters: Personal Essays, is a series of autobiographical vignettes that reflect her interest in creative nonfiction. Dr. Fangman's academic concentrations include twentieth-century American literature, the philosophy of rhetoric and composition, as well as theories of the familiar essay and autobiography.
ROME: OPEN CITY
This course will focus on the events surrounding the liberation of Rome by the Allies during World War II. Class discussions will follow the screening of the classic Neo-Realist film “Rome: Open City” directed by Roberto Rossellini. From this discussion, we will study the modern city of Rome, from the remaking of the city under Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime in the 1930s, to Nazi occupation, to liberation. Special attention will be paid to the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the war years as well as topics such as collaboration, resistance, the deportation of the Jews, and the bombing of the Eternal City.
Instructors:
Dr. Paul Baxa
CHORAL MUSIC
During this course, students will experience the choral music of masters such as Schubert, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Brahms; Rehearse in full ensemble and sectional choir rehearsals; Learn performance and sight singing skills; Explore music theory; and perform in the magnificent Oratory of Ave Maria.