Baylor’s
University for Young People
(UYP)
Catalog of Programs
&
Course Offerings
2011
NOTICE:
· Students entering the 4th grade in Fall 2011 have the option of attending one or both of the primary programs and/or taking courses on the Baylor campus.
· Parents of younger students will want to carefully consider the locations of the courses on campus and be comfortable with students transitioning between locations.
· An automatic $20.00 registration fee will be assessed for each participant. This fee covers the cost of the registration process.
· Each UYP participant will receive the official UYP t-shirt for 2011.
· Supplies listed under individual courses are to be provided by the students.
· If you do not wish to receive the UYP catalog any longer, please inform the CCLE office by e-mailing to be removed from mailing list. Include UYP student’s full name and parent(s) name.
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Interdisciplinary Elementary Programs
(For students entering 1st – 4th grades)
NOTE: $20 registration fee will be automatically assessed per participant.
June 13-June 17
(Monday-Friday)
Time / Course Description / Cost /8:30am-2:00pm
Hillcrest Professional Development School
4225 Pine Avenue
Waco, Texas
Lead Teachers:
Tammy Johnston
Amy McNamara
Bianca Ochoa
Gayla Reid / Creative Problem Solving Camp: Explorations
Participants will use creative problem solving as they explore the remains of a vanished culture in a simulation of an archaeology dig. Expert groups will employ the disciplines of anthropology, museum studies, history, art, science, and journalism to unravel the mysteries of a long-forgotten people and communicate their discoveries to others. The week culminates in a showcase of the activities, skills, discoveries, and products explored and developed by the children.
Supplies: Daily sack lunch / $150.00
June 27-June 30
(Monday-Thursday)
Time / Course Description / Cost /8:30am-2:00pm
Woodway
Elementary
325 Estates Drive
Woodway, Texas
Lead Teachers:
Emilee Ashenfelter
Tammy Johnston
Gloria Lewis
Sarah McCormick
Amy McNamara
Nancy Weaver / Paths in Perspectives
Explore paths in a Texas-geography themed outdoor learning environment through various perspectives such as following the path of surface water and underground water; drawing a journey through the regions of Texas; tracing the migrations of hummingbirds and monarchs; writing poetry; and tracing human settlement patterns. Activities will culminate with a final product. Parents are welcome to attend the final showcase of the students' activities and products.
Supplies: Daily sack lunch / $150.00
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NOTE: $20 registration fee will be automatically assessed per participant.
SESSION IJune 6-17
Grades 4 and 5 /
Time / Course Descriptions / Cost /
9:45-11:15
Cashion Academic Center Room 400 / Baylor CSI: Tracy Cooper-Jimenez
You will learn the steps to solving mysteries using problem solving and forensic science. There will be opportunities to solve real mysteries using the skills that have been taught in the class. Join us and create your own mystery!
Supplies: Spiral notebook / $95
9:45-11:15
Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center: Movement Studio
Room 128 / Intro to Shakespeare: Bethany Wallace
Through games, storytelling, and acting, you will be introduced to Shakespeare and the magical world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. You will be quoting Shakespeare by the end of class and will have an early appreciation for the Bard!
Supplies: None / $90
9:45-11:15
Draper Academic Building Room 207 / UYP Gazette: Sue Elliott
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! We are seeking journalists for the fourth edition of the UYP Gazette. If you are interested in writing your own article, conducting interviews, and being part of the fourth edition of our newspaper, then this is a class for you! Qualifications include: a curious mind, an enjoyment of writing and a love for UYP! No experience necessary! Sign up today!
Supplies: Spiral notebook or flip pad / $95
9:45-11:15
Cashion Academic Center
Room 308 / Kamashibai Art: Ingrid Erickson
Tell your own short story in pictures using an ancient Japanese art form. This class involves drawing, painting, and a whole lot of creativity! We will read and perform our stories at the end of the class for parents and friends!
Supplies: Art smock/apron or old shirt to protect clothing. / $95
9:45-11:15
Cashion Academic Center Room 413 / China! The Art, The Food, and The Language: Agnes Tang
What do people do for fun in China? What do they eat in Beijing, Hong Kong, or Chengdu? What dialect of Chinese should I learn? Come experience for yourself the language, the food and the favorite pastimes of the Chinese people. Learn how to play Jianzi (Chinese hacky sacks), make Jiaozi (Chinese dumplings), greet one another in Putonghua (Mandarin), write Chinese characters, and a lot more!
Supplies: None / $95
11:30-1:00
Cashion Academic Center Room 400 / Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Sue Elliott
Thinking about the future? Have you ever wanted to be rich? In this course, you will learn and experience realistic situations and tips on how to live a long, successful life. You will set life goals, learn how to communicate effectively, and plan the future! Come join us for an advanced look at your future!
Supplies: None / $95
11:30-1:00
Cashion Academic Center Room 413 / A Collection of Creative Crafts: Tricia Fertsch
Ready to learn a new creative art? Join us for fun and unique art projects that include creating piñatas, bottle beasts, string art, decoupage, mosaics, and “all about me” activities. All you need is your imagination!
Supplies: None / $95
1:15-2:45
Cashion Academic Center
Room 413 / Can You Haiku? Tricia Fertsch
Let your imagination soar as you write and share your own works of art through poetry! A perfect class for those who love to express themselves. Bring your vivid imaginations and discover the pleasure of poetry. A wide variety of poetry will be explored, written, and shared.
Supplies: None / $90
1:15-2:45
Cashion Academic Center Room 400 / Every Picture Tells a Story: Joanne Beaty
If a picture paints a thousand words, what story comes to your mind when you see Claude Monet’s Poppies? What do you think Mona Lisa was thinking? What did Picasso’s Three Musicians sound like? In this course, you will observe and analyze works of visual art and compose your own stories about them. You will begin to understand how the use of colorful vocabulary and descriptive language can “paint” a picture in your mind. You will have the opportunity to create you own piece of visual art and write an imaginative story about it.
Supplies: None / $95
1:15-2:45
Baylor Science Building
Room to be determined / Under the Sea Pottery: Barb Francis
Have you ever wanted to create your own sea creatures? Come explore the colors and shapes from under the sea! Using slab construction and pinch pots we will craft sea creatures from clay, make blowfish, sea urchins, starfish, and anemones.
Supplies: Art smock/apron or old shirt to protect clothing. / $95
1:15-2:45
Hooper-Shaefer Art Building Room 180 / Inside Out! Anatomy 101: Kathe Barbur
Join us as we take a trip through the incredible human body! Come make your own cell model, experiment to see how your intestines really work, examine a human heart, and make an edible one. Learn the different parts of your brain, and see a real human one. WOW! We will even make a 2-D replica of all the major body systems. You will come out of this class knowing more about your “insides” than you do your outsides! Special note…in this class students will have the opportunity to taste various foods. Please let UYP know of any food allergies your child may have.
Supplies: Brad folder with pockets / $95
1:15-2:45
Draper Academic Building Room 205 / The Real Game of Life: Paula Miller
You’re all grown up and ready to enter the real world. In this class you will choose a job, find a place to live, and even buy a car, but not without a catch! You will need to use technology to design a budget and deal with real life scenarios. At the end, you will have a PowerPoint journal of your ideal future to share and enjoy.
Supplies: None / $85
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SESSION IJune 6-17
Grades 6, 7, and 8 /
Time / Course Descriptions / Cost /
9:45-11:15
Baylor Science Building
Room to be determined / Ceramic Jewelry: Barb Francis
Ready to make your own jewelry? Come join us and design pendants, earrings and bracelets that you make from clay. Learn to put together your jewelry pieces using metal and leather bindings. Make a ceramic box for your jewelry pieces. Learn the basics about working with clay. Who knows, maybe you could even sell it!
Supplies: Paint smock/old shirt/or apron to protect clothing / $95
9:45-11:15 Cashion Academic Center Room 300 / Laser Technology: John Pedrotti
Are you interested in Laser Technology? Want to learn how lasers work and how to use them? This class is for you! We will learn how to operate lasers and how people use them through hands-on activities! You will experiment with lasers, windows, and mirrors as well as build a collimator and a simulaser!
Supplies: None, all safety equipment will be provided / $90
9:45-11:15
Marrs McClean Gymnasium Room 116 / Leisure Time and Fun Activities!
Crystal Brewster
Come join the fun while playing and learning new indoor and outdoor activities. We will learn lots of neat outdoor skills and have fun playing games…something new every day. No sitting around here—we will be active the entire time!
Supplies: Tennis shoes. / $85
9:45-11:15 Hankamer School of Business Room 102 / Train Your Brain: Joy Howard
Does your brain ever get confused? Well now is the time to put it in training! This class looks at logic, math, language, and knowledge games that can help train your brain! Get out of a Traffic Jam, create words with Boggle, you will creatively communicate with classmates and come out a champion! Join the fun and train your brain for greatness!
Supplies: None / $95
11:30-1:00
Hooper-Shaefer Fine Arts Center
Meet in foyer / Comedy Improv: Josiah Wallace
Through a variety of improvisational acting exercises and games you will discover the creative and comic genius that resides within you! You will gain confidence, develop listening skills, and learn how to work as a team!
Supplies: Pen, Spiral, A willingness to say “YES” / $85
11:30-1:00
Hankamer School of Business Room 102 / Train Your Brain: Joy Howard
Does your brain ever get confused? Well now is the time to put it in training! This class looks at logic, math, language, and knowledge games that can help train your brain! Get out of a Traffic Jam, create words with Boggle, you will creatively communicate with classmates and come out a champion! Join the fun and train your brain for greatness!
Supplies: None / $85
1:15-2:45
Hooper-Shaefer Fine Arts Center: Movement Studio / everyBody…NIA! Candace Ingram
Do you think you know the most important muscle in the body? Where the upper most part of your spine ends? You might be surprised! NIA teaches us about the body, and The Body’s way by integrating the personalities of martial arts, dance, and healing art together with music, movement…MAGIC! Come slip on your X-Ray Anatomy goggles and see everybody’s 200 bones and 700 muscles moving in The Body’s way!
Supplies: Water bottle, comfortable clothes to move in, girls need sliders under dresses and skirts. / $95
1:15-2:45
Mary Gibbs Jones Family Consumer Sciences Building 111 / Cooking with Cathy: Cathy Kincheloe
Come learn beginning cooking in the kitchen labs of Baylor! Each day is a new type of food such as quick breads, veggies, appetizers, cakes and all it takes to put a full meal together. Of course, someone has to taste all the wonderful food you have prepared!
Supplies: Bring your ideas! And an apron if you have one / $95
1:15-2:45 Hankamer School of Business Room 102 / Get a Jump on Geometry: Brian Krienke
Have you ever found the area of a Hershey’s Kiss? What about the slope of a staircase! Have you ever looked at pizza geometrically? In this class you will realize that geometry is all around us! Come find out about parent functions, special case triangles, explore with Battleship, and create problems of your own!
Supplies: Pencil / $90
1:15-2:45 Moody Library Basement Room G32 / DVD Academy: Dikran Bullajian
Are you tired of looking at your digital pictures on your camera? Would you like to watch your home videos on your television instead of your computer? In this course, you will learn how to transform your digital pictures and videos into a Hollywood production. This course goes beyond the slideshow and movie making skills. Students will create a personalized DVD to take and play at home.
Supplies: Flash drive or DVD for media storage, spiral notebook, pen/pencils / $95
/ SESSION I
June 6-17
Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 /
/ Time / Course Descriptions / Cost /
9:45-11:15
Mary Gibbs Jones Family & Consumer Sciences Building Room 111 / Cooking with Cathy: Cathy Kincheloe
Come learn beginning cooking in the kitchen labs of Baylor! Each day is a new type of food such as quick breads, veggies, appetizers, cakes and all it takes to put a full meal together. Of course, someone has to taste all the wonderful food you have prepared!
Supplies: Bring your ideas! And an apron if you have one / $95
9:45-11:15
Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center Meet in the foyer / Movement for the Stage: Physical Comedy: David Reed
You will develop an immediate relationship with the stage and with an audience in this class. There will be a strong focus on increasing your sense of play, the generation of new material, and being physically precise yet blundering emotionally. Class will consist of exercises and mimetic techniques, clown improvisation, and stage presence. You will be exposed to pantomime, clowning skills, physical comedy, juggling, developing your own unique character and beginning aerobatics.
Supplies: None / $85
9:45-11:15 Moody Library Basement Room G 32 / Facebook for Change: Kim Bullajian
Facebook is a great way to share pictures, talk to friends, and update others about your life, but have you ever thought about facebook in a different way? What about to get a job or promote social change? In this class, we will learn how to network professionally and impact our community using a well-known social networking site.
Supplies: None / $90
9:45-11:15
Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center
Room 180 / Draw the Town, Paint the Town! Kathe Barbur
We will use our own great city of Waco, Texas, the county seat of McLennan County, as the inspiration for Draw the Town, Paint the Town! Using visuals from Waco and other sources, you will sketch, draw, paint, and create your own representations of various aspects of Waco, which we will combine to form a mural that will be displayed for all to see! We will also view works of art around the Baylor campus to gain understanding of the concept of a mural and explore art museums around campus!
Supplies: Paint smock/old shirt/or apron to protect clothing, any pictures of Waco landmarks you can bring. / $95
11:30-1:00
Moody Library Basement Room G32 / Facebook for Change: Kim Bullajian
Facebook is a great way to share pictures, talk to friends, and update others about your life, but have you ever thought about facebook a different way? What about to get a job or promote social change? In this class, we will learn how to network professionally and impact our community using a well-known social networking site.
Supplies: None / $90
1:15-2:45
Hooper-Shaefer Fine Arts Center Meet in the foyer / Comedy Improv: Josiah Wallace
Through a variety of improvisational acting exercises and games you will discover the creative and comic genius that resides within each you. Come and gain confidence, develop listening skills, and learn how to work as a team.
Supplies: Pen, Paper, A willingness to say “YES” / $85
1:15-2:45
Cashion Academic Center Room 300 / Laser Technology: John Pedrotti
Are you interested in Laser Technology? Want to learn how lasers work and how to use them? This class is for you! We will learn how to operate lasers and how people use them through hands-on activities! You will experiment with lasers, windows, and mirrors as well as build a collimator and a simulaser! Supplies: None, all safety equipment will be provided / $90
1:15-2:45
Cashion Academic Center Room 308 / UYP Book Club: Sarah Lieber
Come explore the world of literature, reading and writing! We will journey and experience the well known trilogy, The Hunger Games. We will read all three books, view film clips, discuss literature and interpret these books and films creatively in order to see what the world of reading is all about.
Supplies: Spiral Notebook, Pen / $95
1:15-2:45
Marrs McLean Gym Room 116 / Take It Outside! Crystal Brewster
Come and join the fun while playing and learning new indoor and outdoor activities! We will learn lots of neat outdoor skills and have fun playing games…something new every day! No sitting around here—we will be active the entire time!
Supplies: Tennis Shoes / $85
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