|
• Contact CERP
225 Community Services Bldg
600 E. 4th St.
Morris, MN 56267
cerp@morris.umn.edu
800.842.0030
320.589.6450
FAX: 320.589.1661
• Courses
• Programs
• General Information
|
|
|
|
UMM Home >
CERP > Youth Programs > Creative Study
|
|
|
The 35th Annual Henjum Creative Study Institute
June 16-27, 2008
COURSES
CREATING DIGITAL MEDIA
(June 23-26, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Take fun digital photos, and make your own computer program to edit your photos in wacky ways. Learn how to write code in the Python programming language to make your own graphics filters that work like commercial image editors. Combine digital pictures and sounds into photo and audio collages. Print your edited photos on magnets, iron-on-transfers, paper and more! INSTRUCTOR: Kristin Lamberty, UMM computer science discipline coordinator, is interested in educational technology and developing new ways for people to use technology. In her free time, she also enjoys quilting and photography.
|
|
COMPUTER MUSIC COMPOSITION (cancelled)
(June 16-20, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Experience the world of music as a composer. Learn basic music theory, forms, and instrumentation. Write and notate your compositions using the NotePad computer program. INSTRUCTOR: Christie Seyfried Armendarez is an instructor at the University of North Texas and a graduate student in music at Texas Christian University. She completed her undergraduate degree at UMM and a Master of Music at the University of North Texas. She was a Creative Study participant in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996. |
CREATIVE WRITING
(June 16-26, 9 - 11 a.m.)
Your creative writing challenge: Keep creative ideas flowing. Smash writer’s block. Perfect the forms you love. Discover your author’s voice. Share ideas with other young writers. Explore new forms of creative expression. Publish your work! Your rewards will include a generous supply of inspiration, a collection of creative ideas and new material to share. INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Berdan teaches English/language arts and drama at Ortonville High School. She loves teaching creative writing and particularly enjoys helping students find inspiration to write. |
WRITING
(June 16-20, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Learn the one thing all artists need to know: how to draw. Projects will introduce techniques and materials that artists use in making traditional drawings, as well as some that aren’t so ordinary... INSTRUCTOR: Jennifer Schroeder completed her K-12 teaching license in art at UMM in 2006. Her work experiences include student teaching in Alexandria, Willmar and Morris, and six years of youth ministries in the Twin Cities. Her passions include knitting, ceramics, travelling, relaxing on the lake and eating good food. |
|
HOW DO ROBOTS
AND COMPUTERS WORK?
(June 16-20, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Work together with your friends to get hands-on experience with robots and computers. Build and program a variety of robots. Learn an easy-to-use drag-and-drop programming environment to make robots perform tasks, such as following a line, looking for an object or responding to your voice. Find out what’s inside a computer: take it apart, learn the purpose of different parts and put it all back together again! Have an opportunity to build and explore a network of several computing devices. INSTRUCTOR: Andy Lopez is an engineer by training, computer science professor at UMM, and a tinkerer since an early age. He is interested in computer networks and environmental issues. |
|
JAZZ ENSEMBLE (cancelled)
(June 16-26, 9 - 11 a.m.)
Expand your musical horizons by playing in a jazz ensemble as you learn basic improvisation techniques. Explore different jazz styles by listening and playing them yourself! An exciting musical experience that will include jazz history and theory. INSTRUCTOR: Christie Seyfried Armendarez (see computer music composition). |
 |
JUNK SCULPTURE
(June 23-26, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Get ready to dumpster-dive! What’s trashy to others is gold for us in this class—we’ll use found objects, wire, cardboard, etc. to create a variety of artworks only limited by how imaginative one can be with things usually thought of as garbage. INSTRUCTOR: Jennifer Schroeder (see Drawing) |
 |
PAINTING
(June 16-26, 9 - 11 a.m.)
This course will teach you how to paint with water-based acrylics. Emphasis will be placed on developing painting skills and understanding form, value, color, and composition through the medium of painting. Students will experiment with a variety of painting techniques and styles while completing a series of traditional paintings. Students will produce still life, self-portrait, landscape and abstract paintings during this two-week class. No previous painting experience is required. INSTRUCTOR: Michael Eble is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at UMM. He teaches courses in Painting and Drawing. |
 |
VOCAL MUSIC (cancelled)
(June 23-26, 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Discover and explore the oldest and most important musical instrument on the planet...the human voice. This course will focus on group and individual vocal growth, with lots of singing - from pop to country and opera to jazz. You will examine all aspects of the voice including body alignment, vocal health, and appreciation of other singers and vocal styles through listening and discussion. INSTRUCTOR: Christie Seyfried Armendarez (see computer music composition) |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
