You may take any one or all of the ten one-week sessions individually or you may enroll in the entire program and work toward a Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education degree. Earning a master's degree requires at least two summers in residence and individualized study during the academic year. A Sense of Place in Teaching and Learning Examine ways to understand and interact with your students' grounding in place, how to ground your students in the places in which they work and learn and how technology has expanded our sense of place. This course explores the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, identifies the role of the body in the learning process and helps deepen the understanding of the connection between the body and the mind.
Participants explore teaching practices that use the body as an expressive medium.
This course focuses on various designed experiences in which teaching and learning critical and creative thinking techniques are applied to the classroom. The arts have long been valued for their affective qualities, their ability to reach humans on an emotional level. But the arts also involve cognitive qualities. In fact, models of intelligence created out of Project Zero and the work of Howard Gardner came from observation and study of the arts. He characterizes this intelligence as the ability to recognize, distinguish between and categorize plants and animals in the natural world.