SUMMER SCHOLARS INSTITUTE

Preparation for College Begins NowSince 1999, Pace University’s innovative Summer Scholars Institute has offered exceptional high school students the opportunity to experience college life early and challenge themselves in university courses. We offer a superior program of study with each of our majors providing students an in-depth and interactive classroom experience, taught by our world-class Pace University faculty, to give students a true sense of what makes a Pace education exceptional.

The 2015 Summer Scholars Institute runs from July 12 to July 25 at our New York City Campus, nestled between City Hall Park and the South Street Seaport. Students have the choice of commuting to Pace University each day for classes and activities, or residing in the resident housing.

The Summer Scholars classroom experience is paired with active exploration of New York City sites, such as New York museums, Times Square, Central Park, Chinatown, Little Italy, and more. Students will interact with Pace University faculty, staff, current students, Summer Scholars alumni, and students from all over the world. Parents are invited to attend the opening and closing receptions, where they meet Summer Scholars staff and faculty.

For more information, visit us online at

www.pace.edu/summerscholars.

n Business Administration

n Musical Theater*

*Audition video required

n Psychologyn Theater Arts

Choose from four areas of study:

Your Summer.Your Pace.

July 12–July 25, 2015

Musical Theater Major*(includes both topics)

Musical Theater Performance Technique

Musical Theater Performance Technique is a process-based performance class that will teach the synthesis of emotional life, singing, and movement skills as the foundation for a truthful and authentic performance technique. Students will learn to develop a character within the context of their song and be able to identify the obstacle, objective, tactics, and stakes. Vocally, students will work on breath control, quality of tone, and use of the voice in different registers in relationship to the character. Physically, students will explore the brain to body connection, learning to sing from a neutral, unaffected, physical place. The primary focus however, is to learn to integrate these three skills. Most of the time in class will be working on producing an honest interpretation of the song.

Musical Theater Audition Technique

Musical Theater Audition Technique is a performance-based class with an emphasis on preparation for professional/college auditions. In this class, students will be assigned music that is specific to their needs, based on the student’s range, voice, and type. Students will leave this class with the skills needed to audition. In addition, students will learn about agents and casting directors. Students will also learn the anatomy of all kinds of auditions. For the final, a panel of casting directors and agents will audition each student and give appropriate feedback.

*Musical theater requires an audition video. The video should be uploaded to a private YouTube account and students should include the link in their application packet on a separate sheet of paper for Pace University to review. The video should contain the following:

• One monologue under 90 seconds from a contemporary, published, full-length play.

• Two contrasting 32-bar song selections (as separate clips); contrasting could mean a difference in style and/or vocal range.

• Optional: A clip featuring you as a dancer in a show, competition, or other solo dance performance.

Theater Major Acting Program

The acting program is a two-course study of both the history of the craft of acting and preparation in audition technique. It is incomparable to other summer programs of its type. Students study acting for two weeks in New York, the theater capital of the world, and are offered unique professional opportunities and guidance. The morning course covers the technique of acting, with a focus on the great masters, Stanislavsky, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and Sanford Meisner, and teaches students to become aware of their own individual approach to the craft. In the afternoon course, students are given age-appropriate monologues from plays from which they could potentially be cast. They learn how to approach a role, character development, and crucial performance skills. These monologues culminate in a showcase performance at the end of the program for their peers and select Pace faculty. This class greatly emphasizes proper audition technique and the fundamentals of the acting business. Students learn audition etiquette, proper attire, how to find appropriate material, and how to find and submit for current plays, films, and television projects.

Psychology Major(includes both topics)

Psychology of Learning and Motivation

This course provides an overview on human learning and development. It focuses on important issues in education and the ways in which people learn. This course provides students with an introduction to effective learning. It examines important issues in motivation, identity, morality, health, critical thinking, scientific/mathematical thinking, and problem solving and other aspects of our lives. It examines an essential question of what motivates human behavior and why we do the things we do. This course explores the work of important educational researchers such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Erik Erikson, James Marica, Lawrence Kohlberg, Abraham Maslow, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and George Polya.

Discovering Psychology

This course introduces the student to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Modern psychology is broad in scope and rich in detail. The topics in this course have been chosen to provide a representative sample of important areas of active interest in psychology today. Topics include: introduction and research methods, neurosciences and biological foundations, sensation and perception, learning, memory, lifespan development, motivation and emotion, personality, psychological disorders, therapy, and social psychology.

Business Administration Major(includes both topics)

Contemporary Business Practices

This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the functions of business and their interrelationships. Students will work in teams to run simulated companies. Development of business writing and speaking, presentation and data analysis skills will be emphasized. This course is required as part of the Pace University Lubin Business Core for all business majors. It will introduce students to what business courses in college are really like.

Interactive and Direct Marketing

This course presents the use, application, and theory of direct response marketing in the context of integrated marketing communications and new electronic media. It examines and evaluates direct marketing financial models for their strategic and tactical applications. It also presents interactive marketing techniques and technologies and emerging metrics of global e-business. Students will be required to develop strategic interactive marketing campaigns for business-to-business and/or business-to-consumer markets for traditional and electronic marketplaces.

Please note: Some course descriptions are from last summer and will likely remain similar this year. However, course content is designed in conjunction with topics that will generate student interest and are topics of expertise held by the professors who teach the course. While effort will be made to keep the current courses as they are presented here, course descriptions and content may change.

Why become a Pace Summer Scholar?

The Pace PromiseIf you choose to become a Pace Summer Scholar, here is our promise

to you:

• You will automatically receive a letter of recommendation

from Brice A. Particelli, PhD, director of the Summer Scholars

Institute, for any college to which you apply.

• You will receive a competitive scholarship if you are admitted

to the Pforzheimer Honors College at Pace University as an

undergraduate student.

• You will qualify for the Pace Summer Scholars Institute $3,000

Annual Merit Scholarship as part of your financial aid package

if you choose to attend Pace University and maintain a 3.0 GPA

throughout your four years at Pace.

• You will automatically receive three elective course credits

toward your Pace University degree for successfully completing

the Summer Scholars Institute Program.

That is our Pace Promise to you.*

*The Pace Promise is contingent upon your successful completion of the program.

Summer Scholars Institute 2015

Application Deadline: June 12, 2015Please Note: Your application must be accompanied by a $50 nonrefundable deposit, which will go toward the cost of your tuition. The cost of the program for 2015 is $1,400 for commuter students and $2,400 for resident students.

Pace UniversityOffice for Student Success

One Pace Plaza 2nd Floor, Room Y21, New York, NY 10038Telephone: (212) 346-1192 | Fax: (212) 346-1948

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