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The College
of Arts and
Humanities takes seriously its role as a cultural and
economic resource for the Central
Washington region.
In particular, we have many outreach initiatives
with regional schools to benefit k-12 students and
teachers.
Many of our CAH students also complete internships and
service learning projects in regional agencies, offices
and businesses.
K-12 OUTREACH BY CAH DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS
Department of Art
Friday Children's
Art Class - elementary school students come to
campus after school for six thematic art classes during
spring term
Discovery Program
- CWU art education majors help to teach middle
school students in art classes on campus during winter
term
Department of
Communication
Bridges and
Gear-Up Grants - CWU faculty and students work to
provide college awareness and readiness to middle and
high-school students from underrepresented groups.
Department of
English
Central Washington
Writing Project - a program to help K-12 teachers in
all subjects improve their teaching of writing.
Teachers come to campus in summer, and CWU
faculty visit schools during the academic year.
Department of
Foreign Languages
World Languages
Day - An annual event that brings hundreds of high
school students to campus to experience workshops on
world languages and cultures
Department of
Music
String Prep
Program - sponsored by the Department of Music for
K-12 students.
Nearly 100 school students come to campus to
participate in 4 different string ensembles.
Children's Choir
Program - a choir program for elementary school
children that is composed of two choirs.
Special
Opera Performances for public schools - school children come to
campus for opera performances and members of the CWU
Opera Club visit schools.
Halloween
Orchestra Concerts for Schools - two performances to
which K-12 students are bussed to campus
Ensemble
Directors Collaboration - CWU Ensemble Directors
regularly visit area schools to work with high school
ensembles
Yakima
Area Outreach - CWU Brass and Woodwind Quintets
cooperate with Yakima Symphony Orchestra in outreach
programs to schools
District
Consultantship - CWU Music professor Bret Smith is
a curriculum consultant to Yakima School District
Annual Festivals
- Annual Festivals for high schools in each
performing area (8 total).
The largest one attracts over 2000 high school
students to the CWU campus
Summer Youth
Orchestra and Chamber Music Festival - attracts
about 60 school age musicians for a week-long, on campus
summer experience
State Solo and
Ensemble Competition - held annually on the CWU
campus - several thousand students attend, and many CWU
Music professors adjudicate
District Music
Solo and Ensemble Contest - held annually at CWU -
about 500 students attend
Flute Choir
performances -
annually performance at the Children’s Activity Museum
Classics in
Ellensburg - noon concerts of CWU and school
musicians mainly for preschool children and seniors
Sounds of Summer
Drum Workshop -
annual summer workshop at CWU for high school
students
Faculty
Adjudicators - CWU Music faculty regularly
adjudicate at high school band, orchestra and choir
festivals in state, region and even nation
CWU Music Major
Directors - CWU Music majors regularly serve as
directors for middle-school jazz ensembles
CWU Horn Ensemble
Performances - gives at least three performances each year at area
schools
Department of
Theatre Arts
Summer Musical
Theatre Conservatory - brings high school and
college students to campus for a two-week summer
workshop experience
Youth Theatre
Tour -
CWU theatre faculty and students travel around the
region in spring to perform for over 20,000 middle
school students in the Pacific
Northwest
Faculty Workshops
- CWU Theatre faculty often present workshops to WA
high school students
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