CAS Summer Camps

2025 Summer Camps Registration Now Open!
Welcome! Below are the available camps for the 2025 College of Arts & Sciences Summer Camp Program. Please be sure to review the dedicated dates and grades of each camp. We offer camps to both the middle school and high school ages. The camps will run through the month of June with each week having several different camps to choose from. If you have any questions or concerns please email uaa_cascamps@alaska.edu, Thank you!
The College of Arts and Sciences has partnered with ConocoPhillips 麻豆无码版 to provide the ConocoPhillips Access Scholarship. Participating Title I schools will be choosing eligible students to attend our Summer Camps for free! The entire cost of registration, lunch, and transportation of the students will be covered. Please ask your school if they are a participant
Scholarship Qualification: We offer tuition scholarships for families qualifying for ASD free / reduced lunch. To receive this scholarship, please email uaa_cascamps@alaska.edu and provide documentation that you qualify BEFORE proceeding to the CAS Camps registration and payment process. If you qualify you will receive a promo code that allows you to pay a reduced rate when registering.
*Does not apply to CAS Affiliated Camps
Middle School
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UAA Dance Camp
UAA Dance Camp
UAA Department of Theatre and Dance
The purpose of the dance camp is to welcome middle school aged students into the university to take classes in ballet, social dance, musical theatre, and choreography (could be other styles, but a variety of different types of dance is the goal). The goals will be to engage the students in learning dance techniques and choreography and to put on a small showcase at the end of the week to perform for parents.Instructor: Katie O'LoughlinGrades: 6-8th
Dates: June 2-6
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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Brain Explorer Camp
Brain Explorer Camp
UAA Department of Psychology
LEARN ABOUT THE BRAIN AND MIND, EXPLORE CAREERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AND MEET (AND TRAIN) A REAL LIVE LAB RAT
Instructor: Kristin Riall
Grades: 6-8th
Dates: June 10-14
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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Bone Detectives: Forensic Anthropology
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Bone Detectives: Forensic Anthropology
UAA Department of Anthropology & Geography
This summer camp will introduce forensic anthropology to the campers, and provide them with the opportunity to collect human skeletal remains (plastic) and personal items from a field setting, as well as laboratory analysis of these items. Other outcomes include reconstructions of potential crime scenes, documentation of individual specifics, trauma, and injuries, and generating descriptions of the crime and victim. Laboratory activities will include examining items recovered from outdoor instructor-created crime scenes and examining the recovered human skeletal remains for signs of injury and/or trauma. Other activities will include comparisons of recovered evidence to age-appropriate crime scene photographs and or inventory lists, and generation of crime scene descriptions. Hands-on lab activities include blood spatter analysis, microscopic hair analysis, shoe impression recovery, and analysis. Campers apply the above concepts to a specific forensic case they are reconstructing as a group. During the last day, we will go over their interpretations of this case based on their experiences with the hands-on lab activities.
Disclaimer: This camp will be discussing topics that may be sensitive to some.
Instructor: Mallory Anctil
Grades: 6-8th
Dates: Camp 1: June 2 - June 6, Camp 2: June 9 - Jun 13
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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Guitar Camp
Guitar Camp
UAA Department of Music
The purpose of the UAA Guitar Camp is to improve participants' technique, musicianship, and ensemble playing. The goals of the camp are to introduce students to important elements of guitar technique, chord reading, fingerpicking, and playing together.Instructor: Armin AbdihodzicGrades: 6-8th
Dates: June 9-13
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
High School
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Mystery! Romance! Sci-Fi and Fantasy! Creative Writing Storytelling
Mystery! Romance! Sci-Fi and Fantasy! Creative Writing Storytelling
UAA Department of English
Students will have the opportunity to learn and practice good writing techniques and to write a completed short story by the end of the camp. We will have classes, writing time, and peer review during the camps, and at the end all stories will be 鈥減ublished鈥 in a little literary journal or anthology that can be taken home!
Instructor: Sharon Emmerichs
Grades: 9-12th
Dates: June 2-6
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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On the Record: Journalism Camp
On the Record: Journalism Camp
UAA Department of Journalism and Communications
Throughout history, journalism has always been integral to keeping the public informed to the goings-on of the wider world, from the muckrakers of the early 1900鈥檚, to todays bloggers and podcasters. Now you can learn valuable skills of the trade from UAA professors and local journalists in a week long camp!Instructor: Paola BancheroGrades: 9-12th
Dates: June 9-13
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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Printmaking with Recycled Materials, Painting with Plants Camp
Printmaking with Recycled Materials, Painting with Plants Camp
UAA Department of Art
We will be learning how to identify and collect natural materials from the nature and then process them into paper and paints!
Instructors: Jimmy Riordan & Cecilia Karoly-Lister
Grades: 9-12th
Dates: June 16-20
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
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Better Painting Camp
Better Painting Camp
UAA Department of Art
This program introduces students to think about painting and art history not as separate entities as they鈥檙e often taught, of how one can inform and enrich the other. There鈥檒l be an art historical/contemporary art component, introducing students to core painting concepts and projects abound!
Instructors: Graham Dane
Grades: 9-12th
Dates: June 16-20
M-F 8:30 am- 3:30 pm
CAS Affiliated Camps
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Chamber Music Camp
Chamber Music Camp
UAA Department of Music
Grades: High School, Junior High and Elementary levels
Dates: May 27-31 & June 3-7
Application Deadline: May 20
We鈥檒l meet at 10am to learn more about how to get the most enjoyment and improvement out of your practice time, enjoy a daily masterclass with student volunteers and group scales, rhythm and pitch work. Then each student will have a coaching on a chamber music piece (quartet, trio, etc) with a professional faculty member. We鈥檒l break for lunch, casual open performances for each other, and other creative activities. Then in the afternoon it鈥檚 back to another coaching or two. The week will wrap up with a celebration recital for friends and family. All this takes place in the Fine Arts Building on the beautiful campus of the University of 麻豆无码版, Anchorage.
Click here to check out the recap blogs from 2023 Summer Camps!