NEW YORK, NY - For the second year, The New School is offering a summer intensive program in the Arts and Foreign Languages. Students can enroll for up to six credits and complete them in as little as three weeks.
With the Summer Intensive Program at The New School, students are immersed in the art and culture of New York City through daily classes supplemented by workshops, studio time, gallery tours, theater visits, and more. Working authors, artists, filmmakers, actors, publishers, and critics will instruct students, providing a unique academic experience.
The New School invites people to study in the arts and cultural capital of the world, where they will become part of a community that shapes the thoughts and images of our time.
Housing is available in our residence halls in the heart of Greenwich Village, including an optional week at the end of the courses to further explore the city.
THE SUMMER INTENSIVE PROGRAM, 2005
SUMMER WRITERS COLONY
June 6-24 (6 credits).
Monday-Thursday: Writing Workshop (2:00-4:30 p.m.); Literary Salon (6:00-8:00 p.m.), Writer’s Life Colloquium (Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Friday afternoons, and some evenings).
The Summer Writers Colony is an opportunity for undergraduate students to study writing under the direction of master teachers who are themselves distinguished practitioners. The program consists of a daily writing workshop (poetry or fiction), evening literary salons (participating authors are expected to include John Ashbery, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, and James Tate), and the Writer’s Life Colloquium (meet agents, editors, and publishers; attend private and public readings; and visit literary venues, including a walking tour of Greenwich Village). At the end, the students’ work is showcased in a celebratory reading.
ART NEW YORK
June 6-24 (6 credits).
Monday-Friday: First-Person Seminar (Visiting Artists’ Lectures, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, and internship, 1:30-4:30 p.m.), Project Studio (6:00-8:40 p.m.)
This program for college-level students of the visual arts offers personal access to the art and artists that make New York City the international center of contemporary art. The seminar program combines daily lectures by New York and international artists with an internship in a studio or gallery and guided tours of selected museums and galleries. In the evening, you work on your own projects (drawing, painting, or digital photography) with the guidance and critique of a New School faculty member and visiting artists, critics, and curators.
THE NEW YORK ACTOR
June 6-24 (6 credits).
Monday-Friday: Intensive Acting Class (10:00-11:50 a.m.), Character and Scene Work (1:00-2:50 p.m), Practical Course for Actors (4:00-5:50 p.m.), Evening Theater.
For college-level intermediate to advanced students of dramatic arts, an opportunity for aspiring actors to study both their craft and the business, providing a vocational perspective difficult to replicate anywhere but in New York City. Acting workshops are taught by professional actors from Broadway, film, and television. Visiting agents, casting directors, and independent film directors offer guidance about theater companies, agencies, the casting process, auditioning, and professional etiquette. The class attends two or three plays per week. Last year’s students attended Avenue Q (Tony Award, Best Musical), Assassins, Sight Unseen, Frozen, and de la Guarda (off Broadway).
INDEPENDENT FILM IN NEW YORK
June 6-24 (6 credits).
Monday-Thursday: The Art and Industry of American Independent Cinema (10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. with daily screenings), Indie Film Producing and Directing (3:00-6:00 p.m.).
Explore the world of independent filmmaking in the world’s most active indie city. A leading scholar of the cinema lectures on the origin and development of American independent cinema and screens feature-length films. In the afternoon, a hands-on introduction to producing and directing emphasizes the aesthetic and business skills needed by the low-budget filmmaker. There are exercises in script development, financing, and pre- and post-production; directing skills are taught via short projects shot on video. Field trips to New York production companies, working film sets, and screenings are planned.
SUMMER FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTES
June 6-July 18. Credit students only (4 credits).
ARABIC INSTITUTE
Monday thru Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; Friday field trips and other activities to be arranged. Introductory immersion courses in Modern Standard Arabic: Level 1 for students with no or little knowledge of Arabic; Level 2 by placement exam. (Open to heritage speakers who wish to study Modern Standard Arabic.)
MANDARIN INSTITUTE
Monday thru Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; Friday field trips and other activities to be arranged. Introductory immersion courses in Mandarin Chinese, the national language of China: Level 1 for students with no or little knowledge of Chinese; Level 2 by placement exam. (Open to heritage speakers.)
INFORMATION: Call (800) 862-5039 or go to: www.nsu.newschool.edu/summer for full course descriptions, credit and non-credit tuitions, and application deadlines.
LOCATION: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011