Lewis & ClarkCollege of Arts & Sciences

Summer Sessions

2012 Course Offerings

Registration opens March 5, 2012.  Students can take up to 9 semester credits per session. See how summer classes can help you meet Lewis & Clark General Education Requirements

Go to Academic English Studies (ESL) department site to see their summer courses.

Session I

Session II

  • Ideas and basic techniques exploring clay as an art material: pinch, coil, slab, modular construction, and wheel throwing, with focus on nonfunctional art.
  • Fundamentals of using oil paints in a representational and abstract manner.
  • For non-majors. Selected current topics in biology used to illustrate the strengths and limitations of the process of science and the approaches biologists use to learn about living organisms.
  • Basic techniques for solving problems amenable to solution through the use of high-level computer programming language.
  • Academic English Studies is Lewis & Clark’s intensive English as a second language (ESL) program.
  • Builds reading, writing, and speaking skills while broadening cultural background through a wide variety of texts and multimedia materials in French.
  • The main goals of this course are for students to develop an understanding of the emerging field of animal history; to more firmly analyze how nonhuman actors have shaped historical transformations; and to more clearly interpret how ideas of human-animal difference have affected past, current, and potential changes in social, political, environmental, and cultural relationships.
  • In this course we will read primary documents and historical scholarship to understand these “occult” ideas and practices, as well as their connections to Renaissance culture more generally. We will examine ways that alchemy, astrology, and magic contributed to new theories about the cosmos and the human body, new methods for investigating nature, and new techniques for transforming the physical world.
  • An overview of contemporary U.S. foreign policy from a historical and theoretical perspective.
  • Analysis and explanation of the historical forces that shaped the complexities of this region, placing the area in its proper setting and perspective.
  • Characteristics and sources of musical sounds, elements of music, musical texture.
  • Spinning
  • Students’ fitness levels and interests will be assessed and personal goals and workout programs established.
  • A philosophy and method of training the mind and body to work together as an integrated unit, this Pilates Mat class is designed to appeal to all interested in developing stability, mobility, flexibility, and total body strength. The mat exercises will focus on functional center core conditioning, along with improving posture and alignment.
  • Focus on principles of physical fitness such as safe techniques, conditioning activities, principles of movement, importance of lifetime fitness.
  • Focus on principles of physical fitness such as safe techniques, conditioning activities, principles of movement, importance of lifetime fitness.
  • Course objectives are to provide students with the fundamentals of sailing, boat handling and seamanship.
  • Yoga class assumes a non-competitive atmosphere in which each student works on breathing, concentration, and flexibility.
  • For nonmajors. Present knowledge of the sun, the planets, and other objects in the solar system; of stars, star systems, galaxies, and the universe as a whole.
  • An introduction to the films of Orson Welles.
  • The philosophical roots of social science research, nature of research materials in the social sciences, issues involved in their collection and interpretation.
  • Continued study of basic vocabulary and structural patterns of Spanish.
  • Continued study of grammar, vocabulary, culture, and civilization.

Contact Us

The Summer Sessions Program is located in room 346 of John R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.

Emailcasummer@lclark.edu

Voice503-768-7135
Fax503-768-7105

DirectorJulia Unangst

Summer Sessions Program
Lewis & Clark
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 71
Portland, OR 97219