Ice Cream Social Discover the Fun! What it’s Like to Be a Make new friends! Summer Citizen Nancy Gilbertson View Beautiful Scenery! Talent Show 2017 ©Paul Wassermann Take exciting tours! Play Pickleball! Try new things! Barbara at the Cruise In ©Barbara Wilder Golden Spike Tour ©Stan Stillman Attend “Talk under the Trees” Make new friends! Contents PROGRAM INFORMATION The Summer Citizens Card // 2 Community Information // 4 Parking & Campus Map // 6 Common Questions // 8 Orientation Information // 10 COURSE CATALOG Become a Lifelong Learner // 11 Culture, Religion, & Science // 12 History & World Events // 15 Technology // 21 Health & Fitness // Katie Iverson 26 Talent Show 2017 Entertainment & The Arts // 33 Travel Adventures // 36 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Scholarship Program // 38 Registration Information // 39 Cancellation Policy // 40 Sponsors // 41 Schedule At-a-Glance // Back Cover The Summer Citizens Card Cost Saving Benefits Available ID Card Fee Includes: • Vehicle Parking Pass – Big Blue Parking • Free Luncheon – End of Summer Celebration Terrace and permitted lots on campus • Free USU Department Tours • IT Support & Computer Lab Access • Free Sunday under the Trees guest lectures Summer Citizens Card Summer • Merrill Cazier Library Privileges • Free Health Clinic • Free T-Shirt (with on-line registration only) • Access to numerous Club Activities including • Free Performances – (Alumni Band, golf, hiking, tennis, photography, cards, Cool Classics) cycling, and pickleball • Free Discount Coupon Booklet – local merchants Parking Pass On Campus (See map on page 7 “P” designates Parking Pass privileges) • USU Big Blue Parking Terrace - 4 hrs per day • Additional unlimited daytime parking in Black, Merrill Hall Gray, Yellow, and Blue lots (see map on page 7) • Optional $10 upgrade permit to include Orange lot Technology on Campus * Additional Options: • IT Service Desk Assistance located in the • Educational Courses Information Technology Janet Quinney • Guided Bus Tours Lawson building (#27 on map, see pages 6-7) • Scholarship Fund – tax deductible donations • Service valued at $40 per hour. (see page 38) • Computer Labs • Recreation & Fitness Classes – HPER Pass Library Privileges on Campus $25, ARC Pass $105 • Open access labs; Hours of operation: it.usu.edu/labs • Books and electronic media Aggie Express Account on Campus • USU Meal Plan purchase qualifies for a 10% discount Exclusive Community Discounts • Coupon Book with great savings • 2 Merchant Fair Expos • Includes discounts to dozens of local businesses 2 // Summer Citizens 2018 Additional Information Summer Citizens Card Summer Why is a Summer Citizen ID Card required? The Summer Citizens Program is a self-support program. The revenue collected from ID Card sales is re-distributed throughout USU campus departments to compensate for services provided to cardholders during the summer months. A small portion of this revenue supports administrative costs of the program. The ID Card and Summer Housing Housing properties are contracted as sponsors of the Linda program to provide affordable and comfortable apartment D’Addabbo housing opportunities to registrants of the Summer Citizens Program. All current housing sponsors include the A01234567 ID Card in their lease agreements. ID Card and Performing Arts / Free Events Local businesses and community events heavily rely on the support of Summer Citizens Program registrants. Through our partnership, the community is able to provide professional high quality musical theatre, opera, local fairs, daily free concerts and more. Your support of purchasing the ID Card has a direct correlation to the success and future of the amazing entertainment and community events. ID Card / Discount Coupon Book Card Prices Sponsors of the Summer Citizens Program advertise and offer discounts in the Summer Citizen Coupon Book. These discounts to recreation, health care providers, restaurants, $100 per ID Card and numerous other merchants are a benefit to each Sponsored housing card fee program registrant as well as to our sponsors. It’s a great included in lease. way to keep our community growing and to help each Summer Citizen participate in our community recreational Early Registration Deadline opportunities, make medical appointments, shop, dine-out, April 25, 2018 attend events and explore our community. Price Increases $10 per card after April 25, 2018 for persons not residing in sponsored housing. All ID Cardholders must register online with the Summer Citizens Program. Discounts & Benefits Valued at Over $600 The Summer Citizens Card is required to take advantage of all features listed above and must be presented at all program activities. * Additional Options require an additional fee. Program Book // 3 Check out our website for area info and a calendar of events. We can’t wait to Enjoy your meet you! www.explorelogan.com 199 N. Main St, Logan, UT summer in Logan! 1-435-755-1890 (Located in the historic We’re excited to introduce you to Cache County Courthouse) our charming community. Community Information Community Downtown Logan is only a Cache Valley’s dramatic landscape Welcome to Utah’s heart of the arts, 5-minute drive from outdoor represents the rugged struggle to nurtured and thriving since 1856. adventure and beauty in the settle the American West. It’s the Logan was so artsy that in the early Wasatch-Cache National Forest. ancestral home of the Northwest 1900s it was known as the Athens Logan Canyon National Scenic Band of the Shoshone, mountain of the West. Byway is a 41-mile spectacular men roamed and traded furs Take in a wide variety of fantastic drive past limestone cliffs, here in the 1820s, and Mormon talent at our free Noon Music the Logan River, and forested pioneers settled the area in Concerts at the historic Tabernacle canopies to the turquoise-blue the 1850s. Monday through Friday. Concerts waters of Bear Lake. Stop in at the American West last about 45 minutes. The dramatic canyon provides Heritage Center, a 160-acre Logan boasts its own historic great fishing, hunting, hiking, outdoor living history center and theatre district with three camping, canoing, biking, experience the history of the Old exquisitely restored theaters in just geocaching, horseback riding, West. Depending on the day, you’ll one block. You’ll be impressed by and bird-watching. Don’t miss visit with mountain men, farmers, the 1923 Ellen Eccles Theatre, home Tony Grove Lake, a glacial lake and pioneers. Check out the bison. of Utah Festival Opera and Musical surrounded by wildflowers and a Museum open year-round; living Theatre; the 1913 Caine Lyric likely spot to spy a moose. history open seasonally. Theatre; and The Utah, a 1924 Art www.explorelogan.com www.awhc.org Deco masterpiece. All three are full of activity all summer long. www.explorelogan.com “It seemed the entire city of Logan were glad we were in Logan.” 4 // Summer Citizens 2018 Calendar of Events Noon Music at the Tabernacle Hyrum Star Spangled Week Cache Valley Mountain Man First of May – Mid-August July 1st (Patriotic Program) Rendezvous July 4th (Parade & Fireworks) July 20th – 21st Lyric Repertory Theatre June 1st – August 4th Freedom Fire Celebration Pioneer Day Festival July 3rd @ American West Heritage Center Cache Valley Storytelling Festival July 21 June 8th – 9th Lewiston’s 4th of July July 3rd – 4th Pioneer Day Celebration – Logan City Summerfest Arts Faire July 24th June 14th – 16th Cache Valley Cruise-In July 5th – July 7th Preston Famous Night Rodeo Celebrate America Show July 26th – 28th June 28th – 30th Logan’s 46th Annual Summer Sidewalk Sale Bear Lake Raspberry Days Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre July 12th – 14th August 2nd – 4th June 23rd – August 4th Cache County Fair & Rodeo August 9th – 11th Stroll on the beautiful campus The internationally renowned The Caine Lyric Theatre opened of Utah State University, a major Utah Festival Opera and Musical in 1913 and is home to the Lyric research university founded as an Theatre takes the Ellen Eccles Repertory Company, one of agricultural college in 1888. Old Theatre stage to perform operas the true remaining repertory Main is an architectural icon and and Broadway shows along with companies in the nation. Each the A on top stands for the Aggies, concerts, classes, backstage summer the talented actors the USU mascot. tours, and more. Hundreds of and actresses light up the stage www.usu.edu performers from the nation’s with 4-6 productions and offer greatest stages showcase a month a charming view of America’s Take a walking tour of historic of spectacular performances. theatre past. You’ll enjoy Peter and downtown Logan, where you’ll Don’t miss Secret Garden, Into the the Starcatcher, Sense & Sensibility, find great examples of early Woods, Barber of Seville, Amazing Grey Gardens, and A Streetcar Mormon pioneer architecture, Grace, and You’re a Good Man Named Desire. including the temple and Charlie Brown. tabernacle, the 1923 Ellen Eccles 435-797-8022 Theatre, the 1914 Bluebird Café www.utahfestival.org or (the oldest restaurant in the state), 435-750-0300 ext. 3 Churches – More than two impressive turn-of-the-century dozen religious denominations homes and churches, and the welcome visitors to worship. beautifully restored Cache County Shopping – We’ve got the Yes, we do have lots of Mormons Courthouse, home of the Cache chains you’re used to like here, but don’t worry, they’re Valley Visitors Bureau. Walmart and Walgreens, a mall with more than 40 stores, not out to get you. You’ll notice and