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For more information, contact Rosemarie Thornton at thornton.2@osu.edu.

All courses are held on The Ohio State University campus.
Each course will meet in-person all day during the scheduled week. Participants will continue to work on projects at home and submit completed projects no later than August 21, 2008.

Visual Culture and Art Education: Practices and Possibilities
5 credits
Paul Duncum, Professor - University of Illinois
Kevin Tavin, Associate Professor - The Ohio State University
July 7-11, 2008

Through this course, the practices of, and possibilities for, visual culture in art education pre-K through higher education is explored. A range of contemporary visual culture forms will be interpreted and a variety of visual culture classroom pratices will be examined. Central to this course is the issue of how children, youth, and adults make meaning through contemporary visual culture and how art educators respond appropriately.

Image Makers or Meaning Makers?
5 credits
Sydney Walker, Associate Professor - The Ohio State University
July 21-25, 2008

This course engages students in deeper understandings of the artmaking process. During the course, students will produce a body of work and reflective journal documenting their experiences with artmaking and meaning making. The personal focus on reflective artmaking, informed by contemporary artists' practices, is intended to build a stronger foundation for designing artmaking instruction for the classroom.

Ads, Art, and Semiotics
5 credits
Terry Barrett, Professor - The Ohio State University
Debbie Smith-Shank, Professor - Northern Illinois University
July 28-August 1, 2008

Explore in this one-week course the practices of and possibilities for using semiotics (the study of signs and symbols in cultures) to understand the content and implications of advertisements and related artworks. Participants will discover ways to use ads and art inspired by ads as part of classroom and museum practices in order to learn how meanings are constructed and transmitted. Course activities will include readings, discussions, short writings, multi-media presentations, production of ads and anti-ads, and critiques of them based in concepts of semiotics. The course will inform classroom practices at all levels of education.