Category: Advising Information

We’ve added some new VPA classes for the summer sessions. As you’re working with students who are scheduling summer classes, we’d love to point you towards some of our offerings. 

In Track A, I’ve just added a summer section of Art on Site (ART 2110 – online), a course where students are encouraged to make works of art “out in the world,” in their home communities. 

In person and celebrating what’s unique in town, Libby Meyer and I are co-teaching Creative Campus Arts Immersion (ART 2950), a dynamic class where we take students into the local arts community to experience our own vibrant art scene – from music to pottery to murals to dance. 

Adam Meckler’s Popular Songwriting class (MUS 1140) is always a hit, as is Joel Neves’ Beatles and Beach Boys (MUS 3020), while our Beginning Wheel Throwing Class (ART 2145) supports students who want to create their own pottery. 

I’ve put our full list of summer offerings below. Most of our classes are on the General Education/ Essential Ed course lists. 

If your students are looking for an enriching summer course, or they need to fulfill an Essential Education credit, we’d love for them to enroll with us. 

Track A:

• ART 1100 Drawing
• ART 2110 Art on Site (Online)
• ART 2145 Beginning Wheel Throwing
• ART 2950 Creative Campus Arts Immersion
• MUS 1000 Music Appreciation (Online)
• MUS 1570 Private Music Instruction
• MUS 2020 History of Rock (Online)
• MUS 2030 History of Jazz (Online)
• THEA 2000 Readings in Dramatic Lit (Online full summer)

Track B:

• ART 1000 Art Appreciation (Online)
• ART 1100 Drawing I (Online)
• MUS 1140 Popular Songwriting (Online)
• MUS 2000 History of Classical Music (Online)
• MUS 3020 Beatles and Beach Boys (Online)
• THEA 1000 Theatre Appreciation (Online)

Please reach out to Lisa Johnson de Gordillo if you have questions regarding any of these courses (gordillo@mtu.edu).

Looking for a fun creative outlet? Curious about local clays? 

How about an immersive 7 week experience working with clay? 

In ART 2145 Basic Wheel Throwing (Summer Track A) we will focus on the various elements to consider while shaping clay on a potter’s wheel. Students will learn how to make a variety of utilitarian forms. In addition to learning how to “throw clay” we take a series of field trips around the Keweenaw to identify, harvest, and process wild native clays. Each student will have the opportunity to work with these local clays to create truly unique one of a kind objects.  The course will run MTWR from 2:00-3:45 from May 5-June 19.

The Social Science department will be offering a new course this summer that helps to satisfy elective requirements for the Humanitarian Engineering minor and may be of interest to students in your programs. SS3105-Native American and Indigenous Communities will be offered during Track A in a hybrid format M-R 12:30-1:35 in AOB 201.