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Campus Review
May 29, 2012
Digging Up the Past; Comics and Creative Writing
Summer Youth Camps at
Clayton State Mix Education and Fun
Starting on Monday, June 11, local youth,
ages seven to 16, will be mixing education
and fun at Clayton State University, as
part of the Continuing Education
Division’s annual line-up of summer
youth camps.
As is always the case, there will be a wide
variety of interesting, unusual, creative
and just plain fun weekly offerings, run-
ning from June 11 through July 20. Plus,
all of the classes will challenge the young
learners with multiple subjects.
The summer youth camps are split into
two age groups, from seven to 11 and
from 12 to 16, with five weekly sessions,
starting on Mondays June 11, June 18,
June 25, July 9 and July 16.
Interested parties can visit the Continuing
Education website at www.conted.clay-
ton.edu for detailed information about
each course, location and fees. Look for
“Summer 2012!” then click on Exciting
Themes or Fun & Educational. Click on
the individual course heading for the
description of that course and registration
information for that course.
The seven to 11 courses include:
Engineers and Ecosystems; Wild West
Adventure… A Cross-Curricular Camp;
Sleuths and Scientists Jr.; Exploring
South America & Espanol; Comic Strips
and Calculations; Digging Up the Past! A
Cross-Curricular Camp; Spaceships &
Sign Language; Cakes, Cookies, and
Characters; Underwater Adventure! A
Cross-Curricular Camp; and Dinosaurs
and Drawing.
The cross-curricular classes give students
a wide range of learning experiences. For
example, Digging Up the Past includes
units on the ancient civilizations of Egypt,
Greece and Rome, delving into archeolo-
gy, geography, geology, cultural studies,
as well as reading, writing and math.
The 12 to 16 courses are all “combo”
camps, covering two different subjects:
Motors and Math; Photography and
Photosynthesis; Acting and the Amazon;
Sleuths and Scientists; Animation and
Allegories; Myths and Marzipan;
Mummies and Music Production; Comics
and Creative Writing; Avatars and Action:
Teen Video Game Academy; and French,
Flowers, and Frescoes. For example,
teens in the Comics and Creative Writing
combo camp will spend a portion of each
day creating their very own comic books
and the remainder of each day fine-tuning
their skills as writers.
Award in 2007, 2005, 2002, 1999 and, “a
time or two before that.”
During his 36 years at Clayton State,
Ludley was a very active part of the
University’s Study Abroad program, and a
dedicated researcher. Indeed, as he leaves
Clayton State, he remarks that his teach-
ing and research abroad were very impor-
tant to him. Some of the highlights, listed
below in chronological order, included
planning and leading an art tour of Greece
and Italy before Clayton State actually
had a formal study abroad program.
“I planned, arranged, and led the first
study abroad tour that offered potential
Arts & Science College credit for Clayton
State students; in this regard, I led an art
tour to Italy and Greece during the sum-
mer of 1997,” he recalls.
Shortly thereafter, in 1998, Ludley
received a Chancellor’s Award to travel
on a University System of Georgia (USG)
Study Abroad Campus Development Trip
to Greece, to help set up the future Study
Abroad Program in Greece.
The next year, in the summer of 1999, he
was chosen by the USG to represent the
USG as the Art Historian teaching at the
Roehampton Campus in London.
A year later, in 2000, Ludley was honored
by his first Fulbright Scholar Award, trav-
elling to Egypt and Israel for five weeks
of research.
In the summer of 2001, he served another
tour as a USGArt Historian, this time teach-
ing at the Paris Study Abroad program.
In 2005, there was another Fulbright
Scholar Award, as Ludley was sent to
Thailand, Cambodia and Laos for five
weeks of research.
In the summer of 2007, he also taught in
the Study Abroad Program at the
University of London.
Closer to home, Ludley says he has also
been honored by the seven commissions
he was awarded from the High Museum
of Art to speak in their auditoriums.
Ludley, cont’d. from p. 1
Ludley, cont’d, p. 7