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Show to Hosts Workslwps, Group Study By CAMILLA MINER To most college students summer is vacation time; but summer at the University of Utah means classrooms class-rooms are empty enough to provide room for over 40 special courses, conferences and workshops. Even international and national groups train here and stay in the dormitories dormi-tories during the summer. OVER HALF of the workshops have already finished while some will begin in August. Completed programs include Field Study of Utah's Mineral Industries, The Utah School of Alcohol Studies; and Modern Dance Workshop. SPECIAL EDUCATION programs are numerous indicating that many public educators come back to school each summer. Vernon F. Haubrich, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Edu-cation, Teachers College, Columbia University was director of a two week course in the Role of Secondary Secon-dary Schools in Assisting the Culturally Cul-turally Disadvantaged, designed for principals, supervisors, and teachers. teach-ers. Other education classes completed com-pleted in June were Social Studies in the Elementary School, Theory and Technology of Teaching, Social Studies in Secondary Education, Introduction In-troduction to Special Education, Public School Finance, and a Semi-) Semi-) nar in Counseling and Guidance. Visiting writers James Dickey, Virginia Sorensen, William Stafford and Alec Waugh lectured at the Writers' Conference, Creativity seems to flourish in the summer with a Crafts Workshop, Work-shop, Choral Conducting Workshop, National Stage Band Camp, Sum-I Sum-I mer High School Music Clinic, Creativity Workshop, Educational Television Workshop and the Children's Chil-dren's Theatre Production Workshop. Work-shop. SUMMER is a time to get a little ahead for many language students. For example, with visiting person-continued person-continued on page 4) Summer Studies (Continued from page 1) nel from throughout the U.S. and the Middle East, students are offered of-fered an intensive summer program in the Arabic Language. Over 100 trainees from all parts of the United States are staying in Ballif Hall and being trained for Peace Corps work. The twelve week program of orientation and indoctrination indoc-trination will prepare the volunteers volun-teers as secondary teachers, secretaries secre-taries and highway builders to go to Ethiopia. Oakley Gordon is director di-rector of the program and the training train-ing is mostly being done by the University staff. VISTA, a domestic program, is also training volunteers. The eleven Japanese students from Nagoya staying in Van Cott Hall are another ano-ther special group here for the summer. Not all of the summer learning is taking place on the University campus. Twenty-two "U" students are studying in Pau, France, at the University of Pau in the 'Pyrenees. These students left with Dr. Jones of the Language Department June 16 aii'i plan to return the 8th of September. Two overseas study Lours to the Near East and Western Europe will also give some special credit to qualified participants. |