Summer Session 2009

Travel Study

Landscape Painting: Searching for the Spirit of Georgia O'Keeffe | New Mexico
LFINE 5000-01 | 0–3 credits
Sunday, August 9, 2009–Sunday, August 16, 2009
9:00 am–8:00 pm
New Mexico
Level: undergraduate or graduate
Contact: 617.349.8609 or seminars@lesley.edu or www.lesley.edu/about/national/okeeffe_newmexico.html
Follow in Georgia O'Keeffe's footsteps as we paint in many of her favorite locations, including the spectacular Plaza Blanca where she painted Blue Sky. Students will learn to create strong compositional studies, preparatory sketches, and color studies for on-site works. Work in your preferred medium—oil, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, or pastel—and come with a basic understanding of that medium. Course instruction includes lectures, discussions, and individual time with the instructor. This exciting travel course, co-sponsored with the Worcester Art Museum, provides you with opportunities to paint in the magnificent New Mexico landscape, while absorbing the area's rich Spanish and Indian cultures.

Exploring Consciousness from the Mundane to the Mystical
CPSYC 3999-01 | 3 credits
Saturday, July 25, 2009–Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Peru
Level: undergraduate
Contact: Jan Wall at jwall2@lesley.edu
Traveling through Peru, immersed in a culture which honors the human spirit, this course will encourage students to explore and witness shifts in levels of consciousness, from the everyday (i.e., day dreaming) to the extraordinary (i.e., shamanic journeying).

Sacred Ceremonies and Sacred Places
CSOCS 3999-01 | 3 credits
Saturday, July 25, 2009–Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Peru
Level: undergraduate   
Contact: Neal Klein at nklein@lesley.edu
On this journey we will study with the shamans, starting in Cusco, through the Sacred Valley, and to Machu Picchu, exploring the healing traditions of the shaman of the high mountains that remain active even after centuries of conquest and industrialization.

Exploring Ecologically Sustainable Practices
AENSC 2200-01 | 3 credits
Monday, June 1, 2009–Monday, June 22, 2009
Level: graduate
3 Week Sustainable Practices Program in rural Maine.
This course has taken in conjunction with AESSC 3300.
Contact: Paige Manning at pmanning@lesley.edu or http://lesley.edu/gsass/audubon/summer_programs.html
This course explores the meaning of sustainability by examining the impact of technology on ecological systems. We explore sustainable practices by applying ecological principles to basic human systems: transportation, residential building, waste and water systems; and small scale agriculture. Students will complete projects, visit local citizens developing sustainable lifestyles, read applicable literature and engage in examining their personal lifestyle in the context of sustainability.

The Practice of Developing a Voluntary Simplicity Ethic
AESSC 3300-01 | 3 credits
Monday, June 1, 2009–Monday, June 22, 2009
Level: graduate
3 week Sustainable Practices Residency in rural Maine.
This course has to be taken in conjunction with AENSC 2200.
Contact: Paige Manning at pmanning@lesley.edu or http://lesley.edu/gsass/audubon/summer_programs.html
This course examines the concept of voluntary simplicity as a cultural movement and how the topic touches our personal lives. Our learning community practices a simple lifestyle through the daily activities of growing and cooking nutritious organic foods, creating homemade entertainment, reducing vehicle use, utilizing sustainable technologies, eating and sleeping out of doors, and developing a relationship with the land. Through writing, discussions, and work interactions, we deepen our understanding of and develop a Voluntary Simplicity Ethic. We explore our internal thoughts about ourselves as consumers and our relationship to the other-than-human world. We investigate the concept of Ecological Footprint and learn how to lower our footprint by making ecologically sustainable choices in our daily lives both during the course and in our lives beyond. Critical reflection of ourselves and society in relation to our environmental ethic will be used frequently to propel us into understanding how we can contribute to world change through our individual actions.