Dordt Discovery Days is a five-day camp for students who have completed 6th, 7th, or 8th grade. Choose one morning and one afternoon class. Classes meet once each day, Monday through Friday.

What happens at the choir camp? Singers make new musical friends; improve their singing skills; sing in a variety of musical styles, cultures and traditions; and perform in a final celebration concert with the InterMuse adult Chamber Choir.

This program is designed for both mock trial teams and individual students who have previously participated in mock trial or students who have attended the Law and Advocacy Summer Program. The program will offer detailed instruction by law faculty, local attorneys and law students. Students will exercise their critical thinking and teamwork skills and the week will culminate with a mock trial competition followed by an awards ceremony and reception with family and friends.

Discover what it takes to be a world leader in this hands-on exploration of the field of international relations. Using the major theories of international relations, you’ll find out how the international system works in an intensive, interactive exploration. You’ll learn why nations go to war and why they make peace and whether the nature of the international system is inherently hostile or inherently collaborative. Moreover, you’ll consider how countries react when new issues, threats, risks, and opportunities emerge in the international arena.

This course looks closely at the influence of social factors on the individual and on interpersonal behavior. Topics such as conformity, attitude change, person perception, interpersonal attraction, and group behavior will be discussed.  Students in this class will study the psychology of persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole. This class will also look at macrosocial phenomena (e.g. social class) as they relate to the attitudes and behavior of individuals.   Of special concern to psychological sociologists is how to explain a variety of demographic, social, and cultural facts in terms of human social interaction. Some of the major topics in this field are social inequality, group dynamics, social change, socialization, and social identity.

Ever wonder how human insulin can be made from E.coli? Since the 1980s, biotech companies have been making medical drugs using biotechnology. These companies use living cells to produce proteins, antibodies, and nucleic acids for therapeutic purposes. This course takes students through a biotechnology “campaign” where they will transform E.coli into a green fluorescent protein factory. Students work in teams, simulating a start-up biotech company.  Teams will attempt to optimize expression of proteins, run industrial-sized fermentors, perform protein analysis and separations, and purify their own biopharmaceuticals, on time and under budget. This course focuses on the basics of recombinant DNA technology, as applied to biopharmaceutical manufacturing, in a classroom setting. Students will work through a “production campaign” including all key steps of manufacturing a protein product. Course Prerequisite: Students must complete high school biology and chemistry before enrolling in this course.

This course is designed to provide undergraduate students an introduction to leadership theory and a chance to practice a core set of practical skills relevant to transformational and collaborative leadership.

This course is an invitation to experience and explore the rich natural history of the Pikes Peak region. We will focus on the defining climate zones in the Pikes Peak region: from grasslands to woodlands to montane to subalpine to alpine.

This course will explore both on and off loom fiber art process: weaving on floor looms, dyeing yarns and fabrics, felting wool, and printing methods for cloth.  Students will learn the basic techniques with an emphasis on the exploration of such concepts as transparency, texture, form, pattern, and color.

This course examines the work of Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson and others who challenged and continue to challenge the orthodoxy of American letters and culture.  Study will focus on the historical context, stylistic innovations, and cultural significance of these writers and their work, will consider connections between writing, art, film, and music of this period (roughly mid-1940s to the early 1960s), and address contentious issues regarding the role of gender, sexual orientation, and spiritual practice in the generation, reception, and legacy of this body of work.

Provides an overview of the histories, governance structures, economies, relationships to place and other beings, and cultures of Indigenous and Native Peoples of the US, from a decidedly indigenous perspective. Places special emphasis on historical and contemporary indigenous resistance and resilience to racial oppression and violence perpetrated for the last six centuries by settler societies. Examines issues related to representation of American Indians, particularly image and stereotype creation as well as concerns about self-representation and authenticity

At the root of contemporary global environmental and social collapse is a world view and a social system based on human domination of nature and of each other. There is now a growing recognition that environmental sustainability and human well-being require a shift from the prevailing system of domination and extremism to a global consciousness and a socioeconomic system based on interdependence and partnership. In this course we examine the contribution that the teachings of the Buddha can make to this global scientific and ethical discourse and the movements for psycho-social transformation. This interdisciplinary course draws upon a broad range of fields including global political economy, sociology, philosophy, ecology and Asian Studies. The course will provide an overview of interrelated contemporary crises of climate change, economic inequality and violent conflict; introduce the ethics and basic philosophical concepts of Buddhism, such as, impermanence, interdependence, non-violence and the Middle Path: explore ecological and ‘socially engaged Buddhism’ in Asia; and engage students in the discourse and efforts for personal and collective change.

Television, film, theatre, music, sports, and fashion - it’s all entertainment. Learn the impact of messaging and why it is important.

Develop confidence and skills for effective presentations. Learn strategies of audience analysis and how to overcome stage fright, manage visual aids, and understand the power of nonverbal messages. Students will giver several speeches during this course.

How do you get the best from an actor on camera? When do you use the close-up? How should you block the scene for the greatest impact? In this active directing course refine your basic visual vocabulary and learn how to break down a script, communicate your ideas to those in front and behind the camera. You will have actors to work with and scenes that you are directing will also be produced by another director allowing you to see other directors making different decisions on how to film the scene and direct actors. Class meets with Acting for the Camera.