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Summer Programs
Summer at Sewanee
Summer is a great time to visit the mountain. Sports camps bring athletes of all ages while musicians practice beneath the trees. Writers and poets come to meet each other and learn from some of the finest writers in the country as well as literary agents. For more information about the athletic summer camps, please check http://athletics.sewanee.edu/ath_info/summercamps
Programs:
- Admission 101
Contact: Admission • 931.598.1238
Admission 101 is a day-long program designed for high school students to learn more about selective college admissions. Topics discussed include essay writing, what colleges are looking for, touring campuses, interviewing skills, and there is even a mock admissions interview session. The program is offered each year in June and July and usually draws nearly 200 students.
- Adult Tennis Camp, I and II : Tiger Tennis Camp & Camp of Champions
Website :http://tenniscamps.sewanee.edu/
Contact: John Shackelford • 931.598.1485
The Adult Tennis Camp provides personal instruction for nearly 125 participants each summer. Activities include both instruction and drilling in small groups, and match play competition against other teams. Players of all levels receive four hours of daily instruction. Sessions are held from mid to late June.
TIGER TENNIS CAMP is a teaching camp for players of all levels emphasizing stroke production,patterns of play, and player development.
CAMP OF CHAMPIONS offers a competitive camp for tournament level players. Emphasis is on strategy, point building, and preparation for collegiate play.
- Alumni Council
Contact: Liz Yates • 931.598.1402
The Alumni Council consists of the following volunteers: Associated Alumni Officers; Associated Alumni Trustees; Sewanee Club Presidents; past presidents of the Associated Alumni; City Representatives for Admission (Alumni Admission Network); Class Representatives, Captains, and Agents; Planned Giving Agents; and Reunion Giving Volunteers. The weekend is designed as a time to thank the volunteers for their work during the past year, to rejuvenate them for the current year, and to provide them with information to assist them with their duties. Each year about 100 attend the weekend.
- Bridge Program in Math and Science
Website :http://www.sewanee.edu/bridgeprogram/
Contact: Eric Benjamin • 931.598.1241
The Bridge Program in Math and Science is a three-week residential program for rising high school seniors who are interested in math- or science-oriented college majors and careers and who could potentially bring diversity to the Sewanee campus as college students. In science, the students learn basic concepts and research techniques and then design and carry out research projects. In mathematics, they study calculus. At the end of the program, which is held from late June to the middle of July, the students present the results of their research to parents and guests. About 20 students participate each summer.
- Cross Country Camp
Contact: Jeff Heitzenrater 931-598-1285
General Information
This camp offers boys and girls entering grades 9 through 12 the opportunity to come to beautiful Sewanee, TN, to begin their summer training for cross-country. With over 50 miles of trails on 10,000 acres, the University of the South offers a great place for summer running and a relaxing camp atmosphere. A variety of workouts will occur in both morning and afternoon sessions and will include fartlek training, tempo runs, interval training, one long run, hill workouts, cross training and strength training. All workouts will vary according to individual fitness level. Instruction will also cover stretching techniques, use of running drills, diet and nutrition, motivation, goal setting, injury prevention and a brief discussion on the college selection process. Social activities, hiking and biking will give campers the opportunity to relax between workouts.
- Delta Kappa Gamma
Contact: Randall Taylor • 931.598.1337
Delta Kappa Gamma Society is an international honorary teacher’s sorority that has held its Xi State Convention at Sewanee for the past 45+ years. Membership is based on excellence in teaching; its members are women from the public elementary, secondary, and higher education schools and universities in Tennessee. There are 80 chapters in Tennessee. Their purpose is to provide education and leadership training through workshops, conduct business meetings, recognize excellence in the teaching field with awards, and provide fellowship for its members. It is held in early June and usually brings nearly 400 participants to the Sewanee campus.
- Education for Ministry (EfM Trainer Training)
Contact: Sissie Wile • 931.598.1904
EfM is a four-year program of theological education for the laity that operates on a year-round basis. It exists throughout the USA and in 11 foreign countries. About 9,500 students are enrolled at any given time. In the USA there are over 1,100 mentors whom we pay and a group of 60 trainers who train these mentors on a regular basis. Students meet in groups of six to twelve persons for nine months each year. Over 15,000 people have completed this program in the USA alone. The summer component takes place during the first week of June.
- European Studies
Contact: Mishoe Brennecke • 931.598.1982
European Studies is a complete semester of study abroad. Beginning in July, students live and study for a period in an historic Oxford college and travel extensively with academic instruction in Britain and Continental Europe.
- German Summer in Sewanee: Linguafolio unterm D-A-CH: Sprache und Landeskunde in Deutschland und Österreich June 29-July 12, 2008
Website :http://www.sewanee.edu/german/SommerinSewanee/
Contact: Reinhard Zachau, rzachau@sewanee.edu
Sommer in Sewanee, a two-week German language and culture seminar, is an exciting opportunity for high school teachers, graduate students and teaching assistants, undergraduate college, and upper level high school students. This full immersion program is designed to enhance participants' knowledge of German language and German speaking cultures through small group instruction, lecture, film, and discussion. The instructor team will be modeling proven, research based strategies and methods providing participants with lessons that address background knowledge, metacognition, discussion, active learning opportunities, and technology. Participants improve their language competencies and acquire best practices while catching up on recent cultural and political trends.
The cultural topic explores the diversity of the German speaking countries with presentations by guest speakers, film screenings, and small group discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to develop classroom materials and practice their language skills in a full immersion environment. Language courses are offered on the intermediate and advanced level.
The 2008 topic combines the LinguaFolio initiative of the Southeastern United States with Europe's DACH-concept of teaching German, Austrian and Swiss culture under one roof. LinguaFolio is a document in which those who are learning or have learned a language can record and reflect on their language learning and cultural experiences. Our seminar responds to the teachers' need to find an easy approach and materials, which can be incorporated into their regular curriculum. After they finish the course, the teachers will have a set of teachable materials.
- School of Theology Advanced Degrees Program
Website :http://theology.sewanee.edu/academics/advanced_degree_program
For further information:
Director's Office Advanced Degrees Program
The School of Theology
335 Tennessee Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37383-0001
E-mail: sbbrock@sewanee.edu
Phone: 931.598.1478 or
1.800.722.1974
Fax: 931.598.1852
The School of Theology's summer graduate program, now in its 33rd year, offers the Doctor of Ministry degree and Master of Sacred Theology degree. Held during two sessions in June and July, this program brings students together in the relaxed summer atmosphere to study and exchange thoughts and ideas with others. Among the strengths of the Advanced Degrees Program is that it is one of the few to meet in the summer when clergy are not as busy as usual, and provides them an opportunity to focus more intensely on their studies. Currently, about 50 are enrolled in the program.
- Sewanee in Russia
Contact: Mark Preslar • 931.598.1517
This summer tour takes students on a cultural and educational tour of Russia. This includes lectures by Sewanee faculty and many other professionals from Moscow State University, Petersburg State University, as well as museum specialists. Students visit a large number of cultural locations such as indoor and outdoor museums, villages, battlefields, cities, monasteries, churches and cathedrals, cemeteries, etc. and go to a great number of cultural events including but not limited to the ballet, folk dance, the theater, the opera, the symphony, the circus, the movies, and more. The program takes place in late May during the years that it is offered.
- Sewanee Soccer Day Camp for Girls
Contact: Dylan Harrison • 931.598.1564
Sewanee Day Camps are designed to meet the needs of the young soccer player. Because emphasis is based on individual instruction, campers are grouped according to age, ability, maturity, and competitive spirit. Ball control is a large part of this curriculum.
Your son or daughter will learn 3 NEW dribbling moves each day! All basic skills are taught in a clinical setting with the college players doing the demonstrating. Exposure to a higher level players (college players) is very important to the clinics.
- Sewanee Summer Music Festival (SSMF)
Website :http://www2.sewanee.edu/ssmf
Contact: Mark Savage • 931.598.1225
The Sewanee Summer Music Festival (SSMF) is an internationally acclaimed summer festival, which combines a five-week program for advanced music students and a professional concert series. Each summer, more than 200 aspiring young musicians from all over the United States and abroad join more than forty teachers, performers, and internationally recognized guest artists to create a musical community in Sewanee. Students work closely with the faculty in their private lessons, chamber music coaching, sectional rehearsals, master classes, performance, and courses in music theory, composition, and conducting. The Music Festival features over thirty concerts. These concerts inspire students to emulate, practice, and perfect the goals of their teachers and provide an opportunity to realize them in public performance. Sewanee Summer Music Festival’s goals are to develop excellent performance, practice skills, and character for students and expose them to the wonders and demands of their art in a challenging yet nurturing environment. The Festival is held each year from late June to the end of July.
- Sewanee Summer Seminar I and II Website: www.sewanee.edu/summerseminars
Contact: Dan Backlund • 931.598.1175
The Sewanee Summer Seminar, which began in 1976, is a week-long return-to-academics for University alumni and friends. Five lecturers from the College and School of Theology faculty give a major presentation in one of the early morning sessions and give a shorter presentation on another topic in the second half of another morning session. Topics range broadly, according to the interests of the lecturers. Afternoons are used for outings and other informal events. About one hundred attend the sessions that are held during June and July each year.
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Website: http://www.sewaneewriters.org/
Contact: Cheri Peters • 931.598.1141
Every summer during the final two weeks of July, the Sewanee Writers' Conference gathers a distinguished faculty to provide instruction to aspiring writers.
Each conference participant attends one of four fiction workshops, two poetry workshops, or one workshop in playwriting. Led by a team of two faculty members, these workshops meet on alternating days, combining lectures and informal exchange in small classes. Participants also consult one-on-one with their workshop leader who identifies strengths and weaknesses in their manuscripts, as well as suggesting revisions.
Throughout their stay, participants meet other writers in formal and informal settings, make contact with those who offer guidance in the craft of writing, and attend readings, panels, or crafts lectures given by faculty, distinguished editors, agents, and literary critics.
Invitations to the conference are based on the strength of a writer's application submission. The Conference offers a limited number of fellowships and scholarships to writers whose work has seen publication, or, in the case of playwriting, production.
For more information about the program please call or visit our website.
- Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference
Website: http://www.sewanee.edu/ywc/
Contact: Elizabeth Grammer • 931.598.1541
Founded in 1994, the conference meets for two weeks each July, offering to high school students from all over the U.S. some of the resources brought to campus by the adult Sewanee Writers' Conference. In small workshops devoted to poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction, serious young writers are able to polish their craft with the help of instructors who are themselves writers of significant accomplishment, and to form friendships with like-minded peers. There are also lectures by members of Sewanee’s English Department and special appearances by such major writers as Horton Foote, Ernest Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Andrew Hudgins, and many others. For more information about the program, please call or visit our website.
- Summer Program in China and India
Contact Yasmeen Mohiuddin • 931.598.1462
Under the direction of Professor Yasmeen Mohiuddin, Sewanee students may take advantage of summer study in China/India. The continuing issue of the program is economic development, with other subjects also included in different summers. (Note: does not fulfill the study abroad requirement for Asian Studies.)
- Summer in Spain
Contact: Tom Spaccarelli • 931.598.1224
This program begins with ten days in Sewanee, then two weeks in Madrid and the surrounding area, followed by three and one-half weeks traversing the north of Spain along the pilgrimage road itself. The program offers credit for two full courses, plus one PE credit. It takes place during June and July and about a dozen participate.
- Summer School
http://www2.sewanee.edu/academics/summer
Contact: John Reishman • 931.598.1330
The College’s six-week summer session serves students who wish to broaden or enrich their academic program, gain additional credits, or speed acquisition of their degree. Incoming freshmen may wish to take summer classes to adjust to college challenges in a more relaxed atmosphere. Regular college faculty members provide the instruction. Course content and academic standards are the same as during the regular academic year. Both introductory and advanced courses are offered. It is held from mid June to late July and about 80 students attend.
- Summer-in-South Asia Program
Website :http://www.sewanee.edu/economics/South_Asia_broch.pdf
Contact: Contact Yasmeen Mohiuddin • 931.598.1462
This study abroad program centers on a course on “Microfinance Institutions in South Asia” with a service-learning component. It is over three weeks in duration - 7 days of study in Sewanee, 9 days in Bangladesh, 6 days in Italy, and 3 days in travel. It offers credit for one full academic course. Students visit the renowned Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and get the unique opportunity to observe, review, and evaluate operations of the Grameen Bank in remote villages and to conduct interviews and focus group discussions with poor women borrowers. They also go on extended field trips to United Nations World Food Program projects and sites that are often inaccessible to tourists and even to education tour groups. The visit to Rome focuses on meetings with officials of United Nations agencies, such as the WFP (World Food Program) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) that have played a crucial role in funding microfinance programs.
- Tennessee Association of Independent Schools
Contact: Randall Taylor • 931.598.1337
TAIS has in its membership many of the private schools of the south. These schools meet here annually in July for their student leadership conference with both student and faculty representatives attending. The students are chosen from the schools’ leadership, usually juniors or seniors. About 75 attend each year.
- Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
Contact: David Gelinas • 931.598.1312
This is the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Tennessee Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA), and brings nearly three dozen financial aid administrators to campus during late June each year.
- The Lilly Summer Discernment Institute
Website :http://www.sewanee.edu/lillyproj/lsdi.html
Contact: Robin Hille Michaels, 931.598.1869
The Lilly Summer Discernment Institute, a program of vocational exploration for undergraduates (Sewanee and non-Sewanee students), will hold on-campus program weeks this summer; May 28 - June 1 and July 16 - 21. These are week of preparation and reflection, respectively. The first program week will prepare students for internships of six weeks in churches, non-profits, and other service-related settings. The week at the end of July will offer these students opportunities to reflect on their internships. This combination of vocational practice and theological reflection is intended to introduce a process of discernment for students in the formation of their vocational and career paths.
Mentors to the program include Lilly Office staff, School of Theology and University staff and students. Funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Institute has been a part of Sewanee life since the summer of 2002.
Guest speakers have included:
- Author Nora Gallagher (Practicing Resurrection, Things Seen and Unseen),
- Spiritual Director Ann Jaqua, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles;
- Journalist and Peace activist Colman McCarthy;
- The Rev. Rebecca Stevens, Sewanee alum and founder of Magdalene House in Nashville, Tenn.
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