2017 Courses at Wellesley and Workshops
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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS Zombinomics Pandemic! Outbreak! Go! Post-Apocalyptic Economics Bacterial Epidemiology E-20 Summit Fix It + Flip It Crime Squad So, You Want to Be a Doctor? World Economics Interior Remodeling Design Criminal Investigations Medical Careers THIS GUIDE IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY Cupcake Armada Processing Makes Perfect Perfect Pixels Flying Ninjas Cupcake ChallengesThe coursesComputer and Programming workshops listedIntro toin Digital this Photography guide were offeredAerial Robotics during the summer of 2017. While we will offer a similar range of courses and workshops in 2018, specific options may change. 2018 options will be published later in the fall. Sing It? Bring It! The Wig + the Wardrobe Pigskin Payoff Accessorize This! Pop Choir Music Costume, Hair + Make-up Design Business of Sports Intro to Accessory Design Sky Scraping Race on Mars! Manufacturing Mario Cooks Unhooked Commercial Architecture Exploratory Robotics Conceptual Video Game Design Cooking Challenges 2017 Courses and Workshops at Wellesley EXPLO 360 at Wellesley: Courses Summer 2017 EXPLORE THE WORLD OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS… AND DISCOVER YOUR PLACE IN IT Step out of your comfort zone and explore the world of people and ideas. Whether you’re an expert in algebra, basketball, or ceramics, – or whether you’ve only imagined being a fashion Curriculum Innovation designer, a sports agent, or a crime scene scientist, – EXPLO lets at EXPLO you dive into what you love as well as what you dream about. The choice is all yours. Our curriculum team spends 10 months a year The courses and workshops at EXPLO 360 at Wellesley are your planning and preparing opportunity to develop and express your natural talents or explore new the hundreds of courses interests and skills in a pressure-free environment (That’s right — and workshops that EXPLO no grades!) with other students offers each summer. that share your passion. EXPLO courses are All of our courses and workshops are designed around dynamic, designed to promote hands-on activities and discussions. Our goal is to engage you curiosity and light students (and excite you) in the learning process. up about learning. Our team of sought-after Working closely with your instructors and fellow students, you have a direct impact on how your course progresses and the experts supports direction your learning takes. professional educators across the U.S. and around the world as they Course + Workshop Selection implement project-based Courses and workshops are assigned on a first-come, first-served lesson plans, and increase basis. Class size, in most cases, is limited to 16 students. student engagement in Morning Courses their classrooms. EXPLO 360 at Wellesley students enroll in two (2) courses per session. As part of the registration process, you will select and Learn more about EXPLO Ed rank your top six (6) preferences of 300-numbered courses and at www.explo.org/explo-ed your top six (6) preferences of 400-numbered courses. Afternoon Workshops EXPLO 360 at Wellesley students enroll in three (3) workshops per session and attend one workshop per week. As part of the registration process, you will select and rank your top six (6) choices of W500-numbered workshops. EXPLO 360 at Wellesley: Courses Summer 2017 First Period Course Listings First Period 301-362 Business, Law + Politics Pgs. 1-2 Cooking + Food Science Pg. 8 301 EXPLO Entrepreneur 330 Cupcake Armada Running a Business Cupcake Challenges 302 Pigskin Payoff 331 Cooking with Chemistry Business of Sports Molecular Gastronomy 303 Crime Squad 332 Makin' Dough Restaurant Management Criminal Investigations 304 I Object! Mock Trial Design, Engineering + Math Pgs. 9-11 305 Welcome to the World Stage 340 The X-Prize Model United Nations Aeronautical Engineering 306 Who is Dow Jones? 341 Flying Ninjas Economics + Ethics of the Stock Market Aerial Robotics 307 Zombinomics 342 Junk Punks Post-Apocalyptic Economics Found Object Engineering 343 Level Up! Humanities, Language + Video Game Level Design Pgs. 3-5 Social Science 344 Sky Scraping 310 Agree to Disagree Commercial Architecture Debate 345 Fix It + Flip It 311 Write to the Point Interior Remodeling Design Short Story Writing 312 Rewriting Reality Visual + Performing Arts Pgs. 12-14 Fantasy Writing 350 Splat! 313 Ms. Representation Abstract Painting Studio Women + Girls in the Media 351 Perfect Pixels 314 Stand + Deliver Intro to Digital Photography Persuasive Public Speaking 352 The Wig + the Wardrobe 315 Laugh Factory Costume, Hair + Make-up Design Sketch Comedy 353 Say Yes to Improv 316 Villains on the Couch Improvisational Acting Fictional Criminal Psychology 354 Quiet on the Set Video Production Pgs. 6-7 355 Actors' Studio Sciences Intro to Acting 320 Cracking the Case 356 15 Seconds of Fame Forensic Science Viral Video Making 321 It's Experimental! 357 Start With a Swatch Chemistry in Action Interior Decorating 322 So, You Want to Be a Doctor? 358 Little Black Skirt Medical Careers Intermediate Fashion Design 323 Mind Bind 359 S P A R K Neuropsychology + Misdirection Creativity Challenges 324 Staying Alive Wilderness Survival Music + Dance Pg.15 325 Action/Reaction 360 School of Rock Hands-On Physics Learning, Writing + Playing Rock Music 361 Sing It? Bring It! Pop Choir Music 362 Expressions in Motion Contemporary Dance EXPLO 360 at Wellesley: Courses Summer 2017 Second Period Course Listings Second Period 401-461 Business, Law + Politics Pgs. 1-2 Cooking + Food Science Pg. 8 401 EXPLO Entrepreneur 430 Cupcake Armada Running a Business Cupcake Challenges 402 Pigskin Payoff 431 Cooking with Chemistry Business of Sports Molecular Gastronomy 403 Crime Squad 432 Cooks Unhooked Cooking Challenges Criminal Investigations 404 I Object! Design, Engineering + Math Pgs. 9-11 Mock Trial 440 Death Valley Road Rally 405 Welcome to the World Stage Off-Road Vehicle Design Model United Nations 441 Race on Mars! 406 E-20 Summit Exploratory Robotics World Economics 442 Lasers, Dragons, Warriors + Wizards 407 Pitch for Profit Role-Playing Game Design Venture Capitalism 443 Manufacturing Mario 408 30-Second Spot Conceptual Video Game Design Commercial Marketing + Advertising 444 Designing Your Dream House Humanities, Language + Residential Architecture Pgs. 3-5 445 Processing Makes Perfect Social Science Computer Programming 410 Agree to Disagree 446 Raiders of the Lost Arc Debate Logic Puzzles + Math 411 Write to the Point Short Story Writing Visual + Performing Arts Pgs. 12-14 412 Black + White + Read All Over 450 Splat! Writing + Illustrating a Graphic Novel Abstract Painting Studio 413 Hip Hopera 451 Perfect Pixels Historical Hip-Hop Intro to Digital Photography 414 Leaders in Training 452 The Wig + the Wardrobe Leadership Skills Costume, Hair + Make-up Design 415 The Sports Report 453 Say Yes to Improv Sports + Debate Improvisational Acting 416 A Perfect World 454 Quiet on the Set Sociology of Fictional Civilizations Video Production Pg. 8 455 Aaaaaand . Scene! Cooking + Food Science Acting + Directing for the Camera 420 Cracking the Case 456 Panic! at the Prom Forensic Science Writing + Producing a Prom Murder Mystery 421 It's Experimental! 457 Body of Work Chemistry in Action Figure Drawing + Portraiture 422 So, You Want to Be a Doctor? 458 Accessorize This! Medical Careers Intro to Accessory Design 423 Mind Bind Neuropsychology + Misdirection Music + Dance Pg. 15 424 Staying Alive 460 EXPLO Unplugged Wilderness Survival Intro to Acoustic Guitar + Songwriting 425 Pandemic! Outbreak! Go! 461 Give My Regards to Broadway Bacterial Epidemiology Musical Theater EXPLO 360 at Wellesley: Courses Summer 2017 BUSINESS, LAW + POLITICS First Period 301-307, Second Period 401-408 301/401 303/403 306 406 EXPLO Entrepreneur Crime Squad Who is Dow Jones? E-20 Summit Running a Business Criminal Investigations Economics + Ethics of the Stock Market World Economics How would you like the freedom of running your Solving a crime? That's the easy part. Getting solid You’re going to have to work to make a million dollars You’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company seeking to own business? First, we’ll choose a product to sell, proof for a court conviction? That's where things get in the stock market, but you’ve got to start maximize profit in the global market. The challenge? basing our decision on market analysis results. We’ll tricky. Join our crime squad and discover the real-life somewhere, right? Come join us as we learn to China, your largest market for growth, is considering look at supply and demand, current market share, techniques of criminal investigation. While working navigate the market by managing our own stock levying a tariff on your goods; shareholders are and the process of market testing. Then, we’ll give to crack a simulated case, you'll set up surveillance portfolio on the “EXPLO Exchange.” We’ll track actual demanding that your company comply with fair you EXPLO venture capital to get your business off teams, seek out informants, and learn how to read a stock activity as you learn how interest rates, rates of trade practices; and a new competitor from Brazil has the ground. Working with classmates, you’ll invest in person's body language to understand what they're return, stock dividends, and labor markets all affect just entered into the market. Welcome to the global the durable goods needed to set up the business, really saying. In our quest for truth (and evidence!), stock prices and your portfolio’s bottom line. We’ll economy. Together with other CEOs and the heads of figure out your market demographic, and analyze we’ll get warrants issued for search and seizure, and check out price fluctuations, debate ethical trading, different G-20 nations, we’ll run economic sales figures to adjust your strategies and maximize practice strategies for criminal questioning. Once and look at the history of the stock market to see how simulations and debate how global economic your profit.