SUMMER HONORS INSTITUTE @ LIU ’s one-week summer intensives for high school students

LIU—two amazing education destinations, one in the most exciting city in the world, NYC; the other set on Long Island’s beautiful North Shore, on a spectacular 307-acre campus.

Visit liu.edu/honors or email [email protected] to apply!

JULY 7-11, 2014

BOUND FOR BROADWAY: LEARNING BY DOING: HANDS-ON BUSINESS GAMING: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT MUSICAL THEATRE CONSERVATORY @ LIU POST @ LIU POST @ LIU POST

JULY 21-25, 2014

LIGHTS, CAMERA, LEARN! SO YOU WANT TO BE A HEALTH CARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: BRING YOUR OWN TV AND FILM PRODUCTION @ LIU BROOKLYN PROFESSIONAL? @ LIU BROOKLYN BUSINESS @ LIU BROOKLYN

LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY DIPLOMATIC SOLUTIONS: CAREERS IN URBAN FARM AND ECOLOGY liu.edu/honors INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS @ LIU BROOKLYN @ LIU BROOKLYN

AUGUST 4-8, 2014

CREATING THE WRITE STUFF @ LIU POST CSI: REAL LIFE INVESTIGATION @ LIU POST IN STYLE: FASHION MERCHANDISING @ LIU POST PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS @ LIU BROOKLYN

TV AND FILM PRODUCTION URBAN FARM AND ECOLOGY meet real-world delegates who will share their Through LIU’s free Summer Honors Institute, Love the excitement of the big city and the world own professional experiences. Other highlights you’ll get an insider’s look into the exciting, of agriculture? Then LIU’s Summer Honors include: fast-paced world of television and film. Spend this Institute in urban ecology and sustainable food • Explore careers in international weeklong adventure in New York City with our systems is right for you. This free, one-week educa - relations, diplomacy, and foreign policy acclaimed LIU Brooklyn faculty who have written tional workshop will take you around New York • Participate in U.N. simulations designed and produced several TV shows and films. In City to give you a firsthand look at sustainable to boost your understanding of the addition to learning the history of this multibillion- food production in major metropolitan areas. modern world as you debate and vote on dollar industry and visiting the sets of TV shows, You’ll also conduct computer lab work where you real-world issues you will produce your own videos and learn how will analyze and interpret ecological data, research • Learn valuable public speaking skills to edit in a real high-definition TV studio. Exciting insect ecology and conservation biology, and • Tour the United Nations and attend a activities are planned for you all week and include: discuss case studies. Along the way, you’ll gain a briefing session greater appreciation for biodiversity and learn how • Field trip to the Museum of Moving Image real-world ecologists carry out experiments in ENTREPRENEURSHIP in Astoria, Queens urban sustainability. In addition, you’ll gain If you are a creative, free-thinker who is unafraid to • Watch the taping of a network TV show experiential learning opportunities as you: take risks, then you’re already halfway to becoming • Learn how to use a digital camcorder and an entrepreneur. Enroll in LIU’s free Summer editing equipment • Broaden your understanding of human Honors Institute and learn to harness that attitude • Learn how to produce a talk show ecology and sustainability/environmental and turn your ideas into profits. Write a business stewardship SO YOU WANT TO BE A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL? plan, pitch ideas, build a team, and market your • Embark on field trips to urban farms and If you’re interested in pharmacy, nursing, or other business as you hear from the successful entrepre - learn how they contribute to urban related field, then enroll in LIU’s free Summer neurs of ThoughtBox@LIU, our high-tech business sustainability Honors Institute to get the hands-on experience incubator. In addition, take field trips to business • Learn about ecological pest management, that puts you inside the real world of health care. offices and experience firsthand the inner workings genetically modified foods, ecotoxicology, and Discover what it’s like to be part of a health care of a startup. So, bring your ideas and drive, and organic food systems team, engage in patient simulation to learn how to we’ll help you discover the entrepreneur within • Understand how ecological research diagnose and treat common illnesses, and work you. Throughout the week, you will: impacts individuals, communities, and with real health care professionals—physician local landscapes • Meet with entrepreneurs from ThoughtBox@LIU assistants, physical therapists, athletic trainers, • Develop taxonomic and microscope skills by • Pitch your ideas to investors and entrepreneurs and others—to understand the importance of studying specimens you collect in the field • Learn basic business accounting and marketing social work and serving the public health. Here CAREERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • Take a field trip to the DUMBO incubator in are some highlights of your week: New York City and the high-tech hub in Think you’ve got what it takes to enter the world • Learn about the world of pharmacy Huntington, N.Y. of foreign affairs? Find out for yourself and • Meet actual patients who require the • Hear from keynote speakers who have experience the life of an international delegate services of a health care professional turned their entrepreneurial ideas into through LIU’s Summer Honors Institute in • Learn about physical and occupational successful businesses international relations and diplomacy. Through therapy as well as sports management this free, one-week program, you will learn how and athletic training diplomats and foreign policy experts debate issues • Meet the sports management team at the and represent their countries. You’ll also visit the —home of the Brooklyn United Nations headquarters in New York City and Nets and LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds!

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS @ LIU POST

MUSICAL THEATRE CONSERVATORY Institute, where you’ll receive a business CREATING THE WRITE STUFF Find your voice as you take center stage at LIU’s education that focuses on “learning by doing,” If expressing yourself through the written word free Summer Honors Institute in musical theater. engaging in simulations that reflect real-world is your creative calling, then LIU’s free Summer Learn from veterans of Broadway and other artists business situations to help you develop sound Honors Institute is the place for you! Our week - from the world of New York music. Study dance, financial principles. Develop your own business, long program in creative writing gives you the singing, and acting and master your audition tech - figure out whether you should buy or lease a car, opportunity to compose your own written works niques. Then watch a Broadway show, get a back - what type of insurance makes the most sense to with hands-on instruction from the acclaimed stage tour, and meet the cast! At the end of this protect you and your family, and how to plan for authors of the LIU English Department. Craft your intensive weeklong program, you will showcase retirement. The weeklong course will also take own poems and short fiction, learn how to your talents on stage for invited guests. you to LIU’s student-run businesses and effectively revise your work, and build your own Exciting activities include: ThoughtBox@LIU, our on-campus business portfolio. Highlights include: incubator, to give you a peek inside how these • Field trip to New York to see the Broadway • Poetry and the natural world ventures operate. Meet leaders of the entertainment musical Wicked , go on a backstage tour, and • Creative writing and soundscapes and finance industry and listen to their own tales meet the cast • Writing young adult fiction of success. All of this and more in one week—it’s • Classes in: vocal coaching and dance • Performance poetry a learning experience you’ll only find at the • Live stage performance showcasing your • Portfolio reading Summer Honors Institute @ LIU! talent CSI: REAL LIFE INVESTIGATION FASHION MERCHANDISING GAMING: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Why watch forensic TV shows when you can Don’t just dream of working in the fashion Ever played a video game and knew you could design experience real-world crime scene investigations industry—make it happen through LIU’s Summer one better? Put down that controller and learn how through LIU’s free Summer Honors Institute? Honors Institute! Our weeklong program in to create your own through LIU’s free Summer For starters, you’ll participate in fingerprint fashion merchandising puts you in the perfect Honors Institute! Step into the world of digital analysis, tool mark comparisons, shoeprint impres - position to gain real-world experience in this entertainment and learn how some of the world’s sions, ballistic recovery and analysis, DNA interpre - exciting, high-powered industry. Spend time in our most popular games are created. Discover how tation, crime scene development, microscopic student-run clothing boutique, The Student Body, developers plan, design, and program gameplay comparison, and forensic chemistry. Then engage as you select inventory and get an insider’s view concepts. Then learn the various narrative voices in actual past homicide crime scenes with a former of how a retail fashion shop operates. You’ll also used in video game storytelling as well as the roles NYPD crime scene detective who will put you meet with fashion leaders who manage and of storyboarding and animation. Next, find out how in the role of lead investigator. Learn about the operate high-end fashion outlets in New York City to seek investors who will help publish your game following: as well as along Long Island’s famed Gold Coast. for a worldwide audience. Highlights include: Exciting activities are planned for you all week • Conventional and fluorescent powders, magna- • Explore storyboarding and computer graphics and include: powder, iodine fuming, cyanoacrylate (super • Create vivid virtual characters you can animate glue), and ultraviolet and alternate light sources • Field trips to NYC and control in the forensic laboratory • Merchandise challenges • Ballistic analysis, including bullet and • Group presentations HANDS-ON BUSINESS discharged shell processing, firearm • Guest speakers Wondering what it takes to run your own company? identification, ballistics trajectory, serial • Award presentations Market and distribute products? Which stocks to number restoration, gunshot residue, powder buy and sell? Manage your own finances? Find the burn analysis, and bullet recovery in LIU’s answers you need at LIU’s free Summer Honors ballistics laboratory