YAHR Summer School 3-6 August 2015
Topics Summary
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1. Drawing at Wentworth
Students will work in the studio drawing still life whilst exploring perspective and spatial
organisation. Additionally students will draw buildings and landscape.
The course will provide a foundation of learning and understanding which students can build upon
after the summer school and transfer to their own projects.
2. Climate Change - What should we be telling the Grandchildren?
The group will share and add to their knowledge of the changes which will be brought about by our
changing climate (energy, climate, food, population etc.) as we progress into the future.
Students will also look at the measures that are/will/should be taken to address climate change
and will endeavour to visit a local site which has started to tackle one or more of the issues.
The group will be invited to prepare an action plan for presentation on the last morning.
3. History From Blenheim to Waterloo
Initially students will look at the Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill and the battle of Blenheim.
They will learn how England came to be part of the alliance formed to prevent French expansion
across Europe culminating in the Battle of Blenheim. Students will then spend time looking at
Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington & the Battle of Waterloo. They will contrast the two military
leaders and study the Waterloo campaign.
4. Criminology/DNA profiling.
Students will look into the principles of DNA profiling and analysis in a way that is simple to
understand for the non scientific mind. Using very basic concepts the subject will be broken down
into three sections: what is DNA, how DNA profiling works and what are the issues surrounding the
controversy over the recording of DNA profiles.The sessions are specifically designed in a way that
avoids the use of scientific concepts and includes practical exercises.
5. Introducing Philosophy.
This workshop is aimed at students with no background in Philosophy, but who want to know
something of what it’s all about. Several aspects of Philosophy will be introduced - The Philosophy
of Knowledge, and of Government. Along the way students will look at the work of Socrates, and
such thinkers as Descartes, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Students will come away
feeling that they see many things in a way they have never seen them before.
6. Post -War Literature.
The workshop will review a range of literature: Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Cider with
Rosie, The Go- Between and The L- Shaped Room. Students will trace common themes and look
at the author’s use of plot, structure, style and character etc.
Extracts from The Lord of the Flies and Lucky Jim will also be reviewed by the group.
7. The Romantics.
Students will look at and define the work of the artists and poets who presented us with many
classic offerings during the period of the ‘Romantics Movement“. The workshop will also include a
study of ‘Tintern Abbey’ as portrayed by both Turner and Wordsworth.