If your goal for summer is to kick up your writing skills, this is the class for you! "Experienced Writers" will help you to create and communicate through concept development, drafting, and revision as you journey toward more effective writing skills. Structure and usage are tools for compelling prose. Writing prompts will enhance your creativity, and you will receive instructor feedback on each submission. The class features live presentation of stories and essays. Participants may also offer selections from their long-term writing projects, both fiction and non-fiction. Class size is limited so that every student has an opportunity to participate. This is NOT a class for beginners. Completion of a writing course or demonstrated experience is required.

If your goal for summer is to kick up your writing skills, this is the class for you! "Experienced Writers" will help you to create and communicate through concept development, drafting, and revision as you journey toward more effective writing skills. Structure and usage are tools for compelling prose. Writing prompts will enhance your creativity, and you will receive instructor feedback on each submission. The class features live presentation of stories and essays. Participants may also offer selections from their long-term writing projects, both fiction and non-fiction. Class size is limited so that every student has an opportunity to participate. This is NOT a class for beginners. Completion of a writing course or demonstrated experience is required.

This class is a continuation of Guitar III, but new folks are invited. We will learn more picking patterns, strumming patterns, tablature, the function of bar chords, bass licks, and more. Materials fee: $5 (due to instructor at first class).

The Ghent Altarpiece, formally titled “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” is considered by many art historians to be the most important painted artwork of all time. In addition to its mastery of the technique of oil painting, the Ghent Altarpiece represents the artistic “fulcrum” between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Renowned for its breathtaking realism, exquisite detail, and religious symbolism and iconography, it has been the victim of numerous crimes and misdeeds, including 13 thefts. Since its completion in 1432, this 24-panel work has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, censored, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis, and rescued by Austrian double-agents. One of its panels, “The Just Judges,”
disappeared in 1934 and has never been recovered. The mystery of its whereabouts is to Belgians as the Kennedy assassination is to Americans.

The second half of the course will focus on the art of Peter Paul Rubens and a virtual tour of Antwerp where he lived and painted.

Stephen Wainscott is Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of The Honors College of Clemson University. For 15 years he led a study abroad program in Belgium.