Summer Programs

  • Learn about Austrian art and culture inside and outside the classroom
  • Learn about business successes in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Study in an international environment with students from around the world
  • Learn how the Viennese Classical School of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven changed music history
  • Learn how Austria convinced the world that Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian
  • Enjoy field trips and concerts that are part of the course
  • Photograph the people and places of Vienna
  • Enjoy the art, music, and many other cultural and recreational attractions of Vienna
  • Study Viennese culture in the local language, German

First 4 – Week Summer Session

May 17 to June 11, 2010 

ARHS 2350 – INTRODUCTORY TOPICS IN ART HISTORY:  BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRIA

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Cormack
Meeting Time: Monday – Thursday, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

It can be argued that no architectural style is more closely associated with the external appearance of Vienna than the Baroque. This course surveys the Baroque style, in all its manifestations, with specific reference to the city of Vienna and outlying areas. The course begins with a review of the characteristics of Baroque architecture, in particular in regions north of the Alps, and then discusses Baroque architecture in the Imperial city. Palaces and villas, churches, monasteries, urban planning and interior design will be included. Weekly field trips will visit the most significant of these structures.

BUSN 3100 – ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT: EMERGING MARKETS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Instructor: Mag. Svetla Pehlivanova-Porenta
Meeting Time:  Monday to Thursday, 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

This course is about business success in Central and Eastern Europe. It examines, through case studies, why some companies failed and why others succeeded when doing business in CEE. It also teaches the student how to interpret and understand economic and political environments for business purposes.


GRMN 1070 – INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN: LEVEL I
Instructor: Mag. Johanna Posset
Meeting Time: Thursday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

A beginning-level course that focuses on speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and, to a lesser extent, writing skills. The goal is to develop very basic linguistic structures and vocabulary for everyday situations.
 
HIST 2310 – ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORY: HITLER WAS AUSTRIAN –
THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS ROOTS IN VIENNA
Instructor: Dr. Gregory Weeks
Meeting Time: Monday – Thursday, 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the influence that Vienna had on Hitler and his relationship to the city, culminating in the "Shoah", the destruction of the European Jews.

MUSC 1050 – INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC APPRECIATION: THE VIENNESE MUSICAL TRADITION
Instructor: Dr. Daniel Rieppel
Meeting Time: Monday – Thursday, 3:45 – 5:45 p.m.

Designed for students majoring in areas outside music. No prior musical knowledge or training required. The course examines music aesthetic links to each cultural epoch from the Baroque to the present with a focus on the creative process of the great composers of Vienna and how to listen to their music with more insight and appreciation. Vienna as the cultural center of most developments in Western music of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries will be emphasized.

PHOT 1000 – PHOTO I: PHOTOGRAPHING THE PEOPLE, ARCHITECTURE, AND LANDSCAPES OF EUROPE
Instructor: Dr. Roger Grant
Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

NOTE: A lab fee of Euros 40 will be charged for this course

For the Vienna experience, the course will be a combination of lecture/demonstrations, photographic field sessions, and a modified laboratory experience in the classroom and university computer lab. Since students come to the course with varied photographic backgrounds and are enrolling at different levels, the course will follow the same structure for all but will enable students to work at their experience level while capitalizing on the visually rich European environments.

PHOT 2000 – PHOTO II: PHOTOGRAPHING THE PEOPLE, ARCHITECTURE, AND LANDSCAPES OF EUROPE
Instructor: Dr. Roger Grant
Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

NOTE: A lab fee of Euros 40 will be charged for this course

For the Vienna experience, the course will be a combination of lecture/demonstrations, photographic field sessions, and a modified laboratory experience in the classroom and university computer lab. Since students come to the course with varied photographic backgrounds and are enrolling at different levels, the course will follow the same structure for all but will enable students to work at their experience level while capitalizing on the visually rich European environments.

PSYC 2000 – ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY – NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Instructor: Dr. Julia Pitters
Meeting Time: Monday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Wherever different people with different interests and needs come together, work together or even live together, the potential for conflicts is high and can affect every communication and cooperation. In this course, students will acquire a framework for systematic analysis of conflict and communication and learn some of the effects of communication on conflict and of conflict on communication. They will develop effective communicating, negotiating, listening and problem solving skills. The focus will be laid on the workplace.

Second 4 – Week Summer Session

June 16 – July 9, 2010

PRINTMAKING STUDIO
ART 2020 – STUDIO SEMINAR: BOOK ART
Instructors:  Mag. Elisabeth Parth
Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m.– 1 p.m. and 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
from June 15 to 24.

NOTE: An art materials fee of Euros 40 will be charged for this course.

This two-week intensive course introduces the broad range of information related to Book Arts. The inclusive nature of this area allows for the inclusion of concepts and theory, historical information, and practice in solving studio problems. As an art course, it should serve as a springboard to a wealth of creative options. Critical thinking, qualitative decision making and sequencing of information is of value to students of various disciplines. Various projects will include book binding, book design, book as art, printmaking, paperworking among others. Student projects will vary, but an exhibition of final projects will provide the basis for a final evaluation. Frequent project assignments will provide the basis for developing individual studies.

ART 2610 – PRINTMAKING: INTRODUCTORY
Instructors: Mag. Michael Schneider, M.F.A.
Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m.– 1 p.m. and 1:30 – 5:30 p.m.
from June 29 to July 8.

NOTE 1: An art materials fee of Euros 40 will be charged for this course.

NOTE 2: This course will be taught as a combined course for beginning and advanced printmaking students. You may accordingly register for it as ART 2610 or ART 3650 depending on your level.

Printmaking has enabled mankind to develop the visual culture we live in. This course offers the basic skills to enter the world of published art. Two Instructors will share the responsibility to further strengthen the work of advanced students while preparing beginning students for advanced work. Techniques to be covered are woodcut, linocut, reliefprint, polymerprint (solarplate), intaglioprint, and polyester lithograpy. This year's special is exploring the Broadside as a field of contemporary expression using traditional and nontoxic techniques as well as computer aided printmaking.

ART 3650 : PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
Instructors: Mag. Michael Schneider, M.F.A.
Meeting Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
from June 29 to July 8.

NOTE 1: An art materials fee of Euros 40 will be charged for this course.

NOTE 2: This course will be taught as a combined course for beginning and advanced printmaking students. You may accordingly register for it as ART 2610 or ART 3650 depending on your level.

Printmaking has enabled mankind to develop the visual culture we live in. This course offers the basic skills to enter the world of published art. Two Instructors will share the responsibility to further strengthen the work of advanced students while preparing beginning students for advanced work. Techniques to be covered are woodcut, linocut, reliefprint, polymerprint (solarplate), intaglioprint, and polyester lithograpy. This year's special is exploring the Broadside as a field of contemporary expression using traditional and nontoxic techniques as well as computer aided printmaking. 

Study Trip to Washington D.C.

June 6th to June 26th, 2010 (session 1)
June 27th to July 17th, 2010 (session 2)

POLT 1060 – INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS
Instructor: Mr. Mason Chamie, D.E.A.
Meeting Time: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

NOTE 1: This three-week study trip is offered in cooperation with the Oxbridge Learning Academy. Students should register for the course with your academic advisor, but you must pay the trip fee through the academy.

NOTE 2: Places are limited. For more information on program cost, university credit, exams and the application process please contact the Oxbridge 'real world' Learning Academy at rwlaprograms@gmail.com, or email Dr. Mason Chamie at mason.chamie@gmail.com

Students will spend three weeks in Washington D.C. learning first hand about the American political system and US political culture. The morning lectures are devoted to an in-depth analysis of the t hree branches of American government: the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, as well as the role of the Media and Military. In the afternoon, students will then enhance their study of ideas with direct exposure to the practical, political, and institutional realities of American government. Thus, we will meet with public intellectuals, journalists, policy experts, diplomats, military officers, and American Congressmen in private. Furthermore, we will undertake private tours of the White House, the Pentagon, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court, as well as visiting some of the leading think tanks that have had great impact on American foreign and domestic policy. The course is specifically designed to close the gap between academic study and political experience, between abstract ideas and empirical realities. Students will thus gain sophisticated intellectual maps of the nature and functioning of the American system of government while simultaneously experiencing the political culture and underlying principles and ideals that animate those institutions.

Additional Courses of Interest

8–Week Courses (May 17 to July 9, 2010)

BUSN 3700  Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
MNGT 2900  Human Communications: Intercultural Communications

INTL 3260  International Communications: The Media Wars in the Mideast
POLT 2050  Contemporary American Politics

FLST 3160  Topics in Film Studies: Asian Cinema
MEDC 3260  International Communications: The Media Wars in the Mideast

PSYC 2100  Psychology of Adjustment
PSYC 3900  Introduction to Counseling

BIOL 1318  Issues in Biology: The Physiology of Stress
 
For a full list of Summer, 2010 course offerings, see the Undergraduate Summer Course Schedule