Hiram College  PO Box 1808  Hiram, Ohio, 44234   Phone: 330-569-5161   Website: http://www.hiram.edu

Hiram College's Hiawatha Campus "Northwoods" on Michigan's Upper Peninsula
PO Box 123   Wetmore, MI  49895  Phone: 906-387-3795

       

Directions to Northwoods

 

Some photographs from prior summers at Northwoods

     Classes in theater, communications, writing, poetry, music, photography, art, and science are often held in the lodge. They are more often, however, held in a clearing in the woods, on the Painted Rock National Lakeshore of Lake Superior, or on top of 500 foot sand dunes. Hiram College encourages learning and makes it an adventure by employing a variety of wonderful and intriguing settings outside the classroom. Learn your coursework while getting to know yourself in this rugged and primitive area.

Summer 2015 Course Offerings at Northwoods

Aviation Weather - a non-lab science (physics)
PHYSICS 210-51

Summer 2015 - July 14 - 20, 2015

Credit Hours: 4
Text: Aviation Weather - AC-06 - U.S. Goverenment Printing Office

Instructor:  Roger F. Cram, adjunct faculty Hiram College, Certified Flight Instructor - Commercial Pilot

Course Description:  Everyone knows that severe weather is hazardous to flying aircraft, but good weather can be very dangerous as well.  On a hot summer day, for example, the air might be so thin that it will not support the aircraft causing it to crash shortly after takeoff. Landing at a high altitude airport, with a tail wind, or near a microburst can be hazardous as well.  This is a course in weather and how it effects aircraft performance. Meteorology will be studied in detail to a point where each student will be able to forecast the weather. Aerodynamics will be explored so the student not only understands how and why an aircraft flies, but also the many configurations and phenomena that will prevent an aircraft from performing.

Researching several aviation accidents and their cause will occupy several lessons in the course. Field trips will be taken to airports where aircraft will be examined and weather-forming terrain will be observed for wind currents and cloud formations. FAA airport personnel often give this class tours of control towers, radar rooms, and airport operations.

Aviation Weather is a very interesting and enjoyable course. Although this course is a  non-lab physics course, there is no heavy math allowing all students to understand the concepts presented.

Course Requirements: Two tests - 20% each totaling 40%, Class Presentation - 20%, Final Exam - 25%, Field Trip - 15%

Required Text(s): Aviation Weather AC-06 U.S. Government Printiong Office

First Assignment:  None

Additional Cost above Tuition: $450.  The additional cost includes transportation (Hiram to Northwoods to Hiram, room and board, and any field trips.  This cost does not include books, supplies, or personal expenses.             

            Any student who is taking a summer class at Northwoods may apply for the Paul David Knight Scholarship which is available to support the trip costs there.  Almost all students have gotten some support in the past five years.  For more information contact the Weekend College Office 

Prerequisite:  No prerequisite.

This course will satisfy one or more of the following:

General Graduation Requirement	Physics (non-lab science)
Core Requirement for Major
Correlative, Track or Additional Coursework for Major

 

The Creative Life:
A Journey of Self Discovery
INTD 381-EO

INTERDISCIPLINARY 381-E0:  The Creative Life:  A Journey of Self Discovery
Summer School, 2009 at Northwoods
Times and Dates: On-Campus  Meetings TBD
Dates Off-Campus at Northwoods Field Station: July 26 – August 1

Credit Hours:  4

Instructors:  Linda Bourassa, Professor of Art.  B.F.A., Syracuse University; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa. 

Greg Liber, Adjunct Faculty.  Chemical Dependency Counselor in private practice, Personal Growth Instructor.  M.A., Miami University of Ohio.

Course Description:  Creative energy is the source of all our inspiration, motivation, well-being, and joy.

Our ability to connect with a vision of what we want for ourselves and the future often determines whether or not our efforts in that direction succeed or fail.  This course is about exploring the blocks and the tools towards the flow of creative energy in our lives and educational experience.  We will explore our relationships with each other, the community, and nature as a way of sustaining this energy.

Borrowing concepts from Adlerian psychology, a variety of spiritual traditions, ecology, and philosophy, this course will provide a series of experiential exercises and discussions that will open up the student’s ability to be in the consciousness of learning.  How we perceive others in our lives will be explored for both stereotypes and creative possibilities.  Imagination, intuition, and spontaneity will be honored as valuable qualities of learning.  Integrity in our relationships with others and ourselves, personal discipline and social responsibility will be taught through application.

Students will also participate by sharing feelings and experience, guided meditation and movement exercises, role playing and team building.  This course is for students who wish to be open to creativity, personal growth, and social interest.

Course Requirements Include:  A daily journal reflecting upon the experience of the class and the reading will be required, an introductory personal essay, as well as a synopsis paper and an oral presentation.

Required Text(s):

            No Text

First Assignment:  Do the selected readings* and bring with you to Northwoods.  Write a personal essay (3

pages).   *The selected readings will be available at the on-campus meeting along with syllabus and instructions for writing the personal essay.

Additional Cost above Tuition: $450.  The additional cost includes transportation (Hiram to Northwoods to Hiram), room and board, and any field trips.  This cost does not include books, supplies, or personal expenses.             

            Any student who is taking a summer class at Northwoods may apply for the Paul David Knight Scholarship which is available to support the trip costs there.  Almost all students have gotten some support in the past five years.  For more information contact the Weekend College Office 

Prerequisite:  No prerequisite.

This course will satisfy one or more of the following:

General Graduation Requirement	Interdisciplinary – Two Instructors
Core Requirement for Major	N/A
Correlative, Track or Additional Coursework for Major	Humanities and Fine Arts

Call or email Hiram Weekend College to register for summer 2015  Northwood's classes - 330-569-5161