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    Summer Term at Washington College

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    Washington College is excited to offer a wide range of academic opportunities for undergraduate students, as well as high school students, working adults, and more. We will be offering in person and remote classes, to allow learners to access our exceptional programming from anywhere across the globe (although we are partial to the Chester River in the summer). No matter where you are joining us from, rest assured that you will discover rich opportunities to expand your academic horizons, enhance your skills, and experience an unparalleled liberal arts education. Continue building towards your future—join us this summer at WC.

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    Cost of Attendance

    FY2023

    Off Campus /
    Commuter

    Residential

    Net Tuition/student

    $2,200

    $2,200

    Room

    $0.00

    $904

    Food Service

    $0.00

    $546

    Student service fees

    $50

    $100

    Health Service Fee

    $0.00

    $66

    Total Student Charges

    $2,250

    $3,816


    Financial Aid Information

     

    FY2023

    Off Campus /
    Commuter

    Residential

    Net Tuition/student

    $2,200

    $2,200

    Room

    $0.00

    $904

    Food Service

    $0.00

    $546

    Student service fees

    $50

    $100

    Health Service Fee

    $0.00

    $66

    Total Student Charges

    $2,250

    $3,816

    Deposit: $250 due on confirmation of seat in course

    Financial Aid Information

    FY2023

    Off Campus 

    Net Tuition/student

    $250

    Room

    $0.00

    Food Service

    $0.00

    Student service fees

    $0.00

    Health Service Fee

    $0.00

    Total Student Charges

    $250

     

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    Classes in Summer Term Module A are offered online, in person, and as hybrid (where students may elect either option). Be sure to look at the mode column to know which option the instructor has chosen when offering the course. These are 4 credit courses, unless otherwise noted.

    Classes are from May 30 - June 23, 2023, with no classes on June 19th (Emancipation Day). Course descriptions are provided lower on this page 

    Instructor's Name

    Course Name

    Course Title

    Time

    Mode

    LOC

    Friday Lab

    R.C. De Prospo

    Introduction to American Culture I

    AMS/ENG 209

    9-11:45

    Online

     

     

    Aaron Lampman

    Intro to Anthropology

    ANT 105

    12-2:45

    Online



     

    Austin Lobo

    Computer Science 1

    CSI 111

    12:00-2;45

    Online

     

     

    Julie Markin

    Archaeology Field School

    ANT/CRS 296

    Special Times (Full Day Activities)

    Regular

    Field Site

     

    Dylan Poulsen

    Statistical Inference and Data Analysis

    MAT 109

    9:00-11:45

    Hyflex

     

     

    Dylan Poulsen

    Integral Calculus

    MAT 112

    3:00-5:45

    Hyflex

     

     

    Joseph Prud'Homme

    Freedom in American Political Life

    POL 394

    9:00-11:45

    Online

     

     

    Ken Schweitzer

    Rock, Pop, & American Culture

    MUS 106

    12-2:45

    Online

     

     

    Hui-Ju Tsai

    Personal Finance

    BUS 194

    9-11:45

    Online

     

     

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    Classes in Summer Term Module B are offered online, in person, and as hybrid (where students may elect either option). Be sure to look at the mode column to know which option the instructor has chosen when offering the course. These are 4 credit courses, unless otherwise noted.

    Classes are from June 26 - July 21, 2023, with no classes on July 4th (Independence Day). Course descriptions are provided lower on this page 

    Instructor's Name

    Course Name

    Course Title

    Time

    Mode

    LOC

    Michael Chiarappa

    Black Life in Bellevue: Documenting African American Cultural Landscape Along the Chesapeake Bay

    CRS 294

    Special Times. See course Description

     

     

    Sara Clarke-DeReza

    Educational Psychology

    EDU 252

    9:00-11:45

    Online

     

    Kate Livie & Benjamin Ford

    Special Topic: Headwaters to Bay

    CMS/CRS 294

    Special Times (Full Day Activities)

    Regular

     

    Jason Patterson

    Introductory Drawing Studio

    ART 261

    3-5:45

    Regular

    LARR

    Jon McCollum

    Intro to World Music & Ethnomusicology

    MUS 104

    12-2:45

    Hyflex

    GCA 206

    Shaun Ramsey

    Differential Calculus

    MAT 111

    9:00-11:45

    Hyflex

     

    Bin Song

    Confucianism and Ru Meditation

    PHL/REL 394

    3-6:00

    Hyflex

     

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    Course Descriptions

    These courses descriptions are color coded to indicate whether there are offered in Module A (Maroon) or Module, B (Teal) and further coded to reflect whether the course is offered online, in person, or as a hybrid.
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    AMS/ENG 209 Introduction to American Literature and Culture I

    Monday-Friday 9:00am-11:45am
    Instructor: DeProspo

    AMS/ENG 209 is gateway courses to the American Studies major at Washington College, counting both for Humanities General Education credit and prerequisite credit for American Studies.  The course is also writing intensive, its course work being exclusively a series of short papers.
     
    The American Studies major, the oldest cross-disciplinary major at Washington College, allows unusually independent students virtually to design their own majors, including both Social Science and Humanities courses that prepare students for careers in education, government, law, and social service, among others. It is exceptionally keyed to the College's historical heritage and provides students with all of the opportunities afforded by the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, in particular the Center's many paid internships. 

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    ANT 105: Intro to Anthropology

    Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45
    Instructor: Lampman

    The study of human diversity with emphasis on cultural anthropology. Topics include the anthropological perspective, resources of culture, organization of material life, systems of relationships and global forms of inequality. The course examins how anthropologists apply their skills to solve contemporary human social problems. Basic ethnographic interviewing skills. Introduction to ethnography.

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    ANT 296: Archaeology Field School

    Participants will engage in all phases of field archaeology and laboratory analysis, including site discovery techniques, surveying, stratigraphic excavation, and recording. Working at Barwick’s Ordinary provides students the opportunity to gain experience at a prehistoric and an historic site, all in one field school.

    WhenMay 30 - June 23, 2023 (Full Day)


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     Email Dr. Julie Markin [jmarkin2@washcoll.edu] with questions or to register.

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    ART 261: Introductory Drawing Studio

    Monday-Friday
    Instructor: Patterson

    This course explores the theories and concepts of drawing from a contemporary perspective. The curriculum, while focusing on basic skills and concepts of drawing, is interdisciplinary in nature. In addition to drawing fundamentals, the course will place emphasis on connecting conceptual thinking to one's broader creative practice. Contemporary and historical examples of artists working within such a creative practice are covered through lectures and screenings. 

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     BUS 194 Special Topics: Personal Finance

    Monday-Friday 9-11:45am
    Instructor: Tsai

    This course is designed to help students develop personal financial planning skills to achieve their financial goals. Topics will include budgeting, taxes, consumer credit, house and motor vehicle purchase and financing decisions, life insurance, fundamental investments, and retirement planning. After taking this course, students should be able to apply learned skills to manage their financial resources and make financial decisions with confidence. 

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    CMS/CRS 294: Special Topic: Headwaters to Bay

    Much of Headwaters to Bay will take place in the field, aways from campus. Students will have the opportunity to travel throughout the region, learning from experts and seeing how a sense of place can impact their own creative voice.

    Instructor: Kate Livie & Benjamin Ford

    This experiential program brings students to the intersection of arts and the environment, exploring five key topics—flow, tradition, transformation, subsidence, and resilience—through field and creative work as a pathway to understanding the modern Chesapeake Bay. Through a series of themed explorations of the Bay from its largest tributary all the way to its confluence with the ocean, students will discover how the environment and a sense of place impacts the people of the contemporary Bay region—and use their experiences to develop a unique body of creative work in response. Students will prepare for their experiences in the field with work in the classroom, dividing their time between readings, discussion, and lectures on background history, environment, and culture with arts instruction and workshops in environmental creative writing, photography and videography, sketching, journaling and watercolor. They will then embark on several two-to-three day field experiences, beginning on the Susquehanna and concluding on the Coastal Bays of the Lower Eastern Shore. Throughout, they will document their travels through journals, sketches, and/or photography/ videography. Upon returning for their final wrap-up in the classroom, students will use their work to create a final, comprehensive project. This may be an illustrated essay, photo essay or video essay that explores the meaning of place in the Chesapeake—its environmental fragility, its productivity, its beauty, its threatened culture, and its possible future.

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    CSI 111: Computer Science 1

    Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
    Instructor: Lobo

    Introduction to programming in Python

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    CRS 294: Black Life in Bellevue: Documenting African AmericanCultural Landscape Along the Chesapekae Bay

    Monday-Friday Special Times
    Dates: July 3-July 29, 2023
    Instructor: Chiarappa

    From July 3 to July 29, 2023, the Center for Environment and Society and its Past is Present Initiative will partner with the Village of Bellevue, Maryland and the Bellevue Passage Museum to conduct a field school aimed at using the venue’s cultural landscape to advance historical understanding and cultural conservation of an African American community whose aspirations and development were shaped by the Chesapeake estuarine environment. Led by field school co-directors Michael Chiarappa, Ph.D. and Janet Sheridan, M.A. and community coordinators Drs. Dennis and Mary DeShields, students will be immersed in Bellevue’s historical/cultural resources and its contemporary cultural life. Residing and working in Bellevue for four weeks, students will learn the skills required to document cultural landscapes—measuring, drawing, and photographing buildings, using historic documents and visual materials, and conducting oral histories with longtime residents. Bay. The materials generated through these exercises will be used to create history exhibits and public programming for the Bellevue Passage Museum, as well as serving as resources for African American heritage tourism in the area.

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    EDU 252: Educational Psychology

    Monday-Friday 9:00am-11:45am
    Instructor: Clarke-De Reza

    This course reflects knowledge derived from theory, research, and professional practice as it covers human development and learning, inquiry and research, and experience-based principles of effective practice. Such practice encourages: 1) intellectual, social, and personal development; 2) creating instructional opportunities adapted to diversity in learners, e.g. individual and cross-cultural developmental variability, approaches to learning, and multiple intelligences including spatial/artistic intelligence; 3) strategies for developing critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills; and 4) formal and informal strategies for assessing intellectual, social, and physical development.  

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    MAT 109: Statistical Inference and Data Analysis

    Monday-Friday 9:00-11:45am
    Instructor: Poulsen

    Introduction to programming in Python

    Introduction to the appropriate methods for analyzing data and designing experiments. After a study of various measures of central tendency and dispersion, the course develops the basic principles of testing hypotheses, estimating parameters, and reaching decisions. MAT 109 and BUS 109 may not both be taken for credit.

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    MAT 111: Differential Calculus

    Monday-Friday 9:00-11:45am
    Instructor: Ramsey

    Analytic geometry, the derivative and differential, elementary functions, limits, continuity, and applications. Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that a student should have strong algebra and trigonometric skills before taking this course.

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    MAT 112: Integral Calculus

    Monday-Friday 3:00-5:45
    Instructor: Poulsen

    The indefinite integral, the definite integral, the fundamental theorem of the integral calculus, sequences, series, and applications. Prerequisite: MAT 111 or MAT 106-107 or permission of the instructor.

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    MUS/ANT 104: Intro to World Music and Ethnomusciology

    Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
    Instructor: McCollum

    An introduction to music of the world, including popular, folk, religious and classical traditions. Explores the way ethnomusicologists organize and analyze knowledge about the world, while investigating the ways music acquires meaning in performances that are socially, historically, and culturally situated.

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    MUS 106: Rock, Pop, and American Culture

    Monday-Friday 12:00-2:45pm
    Instructor: Schweitzer

    An examination of popular music in America from the 1830s through the modern day. With a particular emphasis being placed on the 1950s and 1960s, students will develop an understanding of the cultural, political, and economic forces of these eras and will examine how popular music history intersects with all aspects of American history and culture. This course also examines several important threads in popular music history, including the ever-present, but ever changing, role of race relations, the impact of evolving technologies, and the history of the music industry. In addition to reading the assigned textbook, students are also asked to watch/listen to important archival performances, televised interviews with notable musicians, radio interviews with scholars of popular culture, and other relevant primary sources.

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    PHL/REL 394: Special Topic: Confucianism and Ru Meditation

    Monday-Friday 3:00-5:45pm
    Instructor: Song

    This course introduces the philosophical concepts, sociological foundation, political implementation, and spiritual/religious practices of the Asian Ru (Confucian) tradition. While remaining sensitive to its varying characteristics through different historical periods, the course also presents Ruism’s development across Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia, and studies its historical interaction with Western cultures. Students are encouraged to think over and practice Ruist insights in a broader context of philosophical and religious studies, while being able to compare it with other major Asian and Western philosophical and religious traditions. Special acquired skills: students will learn Meditation in Motion in its varying forms, such as breathing, sleeping, quiet-sitting and Taiji martial arts, to strengthen their mind-body general well-being and increase creativity and productivity.

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    POL 394 Special Topic: Freedom in American Political Life

    Monday-Friday 9:00-11:45
    Instructor: Prud'homme

    This distinctive course explores the contested meanings of freedom in American political thought. We explore the historical origins of the American constitutional project; the defense of a system of self-government with freedom at its heart; and the various interpretations of freedom which have emerged in American legal and political theory. Throughout the course we place our focus on the great ideas of freedom and their concrete instantiations in political and legal practice. Representative topics include economic freedom, state regulation, religious freedom, personal autonomy and civil rights and liberties. Students connect with leading experts enhancing the learning experience.

    Counts toward POLS major and minor distribution requirements

     

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