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<p>The Business and Leadership Institute (BLI) is an immersive two-week experience for high school students who want to explore the world of business and leadership. Combining the challenge of a college-level course with the creativity of real-world problem-solving, students dive into topics like design thinking, marketing, finance, international leadership, emotional intelligence, and personal leadership development. Through interactive workshops, guest speakers, and hands-on team projects, they apply what they learn in meaningful, engaging ways.</p> <p>Working collaboratively, students develop a business plan for a product or service—researching, refining, and ultimately presenting their start-up idea on the final day. By the end of the program, you’ll leave with new confidence, stronger leadership skills, and real-world experience that will set you apart in college, career, and beyond.</p> <p>Faculty:&nbsp; Barbara Mitchell</p>

<p>Looking through the lens of history, students will explore&nbsp;Climate Change, Progress, and the Global Citizen&nbsp;from three distinct components.&nbsp;One, students will trace the major events of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries that have led to where modern society is today in terms of its relationship with nature.&nbsp;Such topics will include a study of the origins of Colonization and Imperialism, the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, the rise of Nationalism and the complexities created by competing national interests. The second component of the&nbsp;class will center on the unique relationship between emerging modern societies and nature.&nbsp;Special emphasis will be given to artistic, economic, philosophical, and sociological observations and commentary that accompanied the evolution of modern progress and its impact on the natural world.&nbsp;Last,&nbsp;Climate Change, Progress, and the Global Citizen&nbsp;will offer students the opportunity to explore current social and philosophical commentary on our current global relationship with nature.&nbsp;This last layer of the course will allow students the opportunity to create their own vision for what a more refined, more just perspective might be as we head further into the twenty-first century.</p> <p>Faculty: Chris Brooks</p>

<p>Students will learn about the exciting world of forensic science, including basic techniques and concepts. Working with simulated crime scenes, students will look at actual case examples and gain experience in photographing and sketching simulated crime scenes and matching fingerprints, hair fibers, tire tracks, glass, blood splatter, ballistics, and weapons.&nbsp; Lessons learned in profiling at the FBI Academy will be applied to cases in Douglas's&nbsp;<i style="font-family: adobe-clean, &quot;Source Sans Pro&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif;">Mindhunter</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;Burgess &amp; Constantine's&nbsp;<i style="font-family: adobe-clean, &quot;Source Sans Pro&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Ubuntu, &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif;">A Killer By Design</i>.</p> <p>Faculty: Ann Wolbert Burgess<br> </p>

<p>Economics is a study of human behavior and helps explain many aspects of our everyday life. In this course, students will learn the basics of both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics to better understand both business and the economy. We will look at factors influencing individuals and businesses and how they make decisions. Then we will look at the economy as a whole and address the measures of economic activities, role of the government and its policies, and the effects of those policies.</p> <p>The focus of the course will be on applying the principles learned to the world around us. Students will not only apply the tools to current events and business issues but will also be encouraged to think about how this plays out in their own lives. <i>This course is a good overview for students who may be interested in taking AP Economics.</i></p>

<p><b>**CANCELED**</b></p> <p>This course is an introduction to the structure and format of writing for television. This course is unique in that it is a practical writing course where students will be challenged to take the theory they learn and apply it to the page. Students will focus on the format of a pilot episode, the structure and format of story and character development, and a short script.<br> </p>

<p><b>(Online)</b></p> <p>Generation Z (born between 1997–2012) has been described as &quot;an unhappy generation who posts happy pictures online.&quot; They have grown up alongside two mind-altering forces in society that helped shape this puzzling experience: the Internet and psychiatry. This course explores the connections between social media and psychiatry as they have influenced the mental health of today's youth, while providing a scientific foundation in psychiatric pharmacology for future students of psychology, sociology, or medicine.We learn about the fundamentals of psychopharmacology (i.e., the study of the effect of psychiatric drugs on the organism and its behavior) while exploring the sociological, psychological, and philosophical implications of the role of psychiatry among the first post-Internet generation.</p> <p>Faculty: Sam Gable, Ph.D.</p>

<p>The Sport Management Institute (SMI) is an exciting introduction to the world of sport management. The two-week summer session course is a valuable experience for students who enjoy sports as either a participant or a spectator, who are intrigued by the possibility of studying sport management in college, and who want to explore and learn more about the myriad of career options in the sport management field.</p> <p><br> SMI students receive a broad overview of the field of sport management. Course content includes athletic administration and leadership, events and facility management, sport business, and sport marketing and promotion. Over their two weeks at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½E, SMI students work independently, in pairs, and in small groups on a variety of assignments and projects. Examples of student work include the professional profile presentation, LinkedIn profiles, in-class debate and the sporting marketing project and presentation.&nbsp;</p>

<p>An introductory course in which students will learn strategies for writing college level prose and read published examples from several fields. The course will have an emphasis on steady production and revision of texts. Through exercises and/or open and directed writing assignments, students will produce two finished short essays. By the end of this course, students will have developed an understanding of the demands of college level writing, including idea generation, research tools, and the formal expectations of diction, syntax and style; improved their close reading of texts via assigned readings; become more comfortable with writing for college; and produced two short, completed essays. Revisions are the most significant part of the process, and we will spend ample class time thinking about revision and how to make each student’s voice distinctive, so they stand out from the hordes of other student writers.</p> <p>Faculty:&nbsp;Margaret Summerfield</p>