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Summer Camp: Humanities UNTamed
Humanities UNTamed: Where Creativity Meets Culture
June 1, 2026 - July 10, 2026
This dynamic summer camp brings interdisciplinary learning to life under the guidance of dedicated professors and instructors from the University of North Texas (UNT) Division of Humanities. Designed to spark curiosity and creativity, each week introduces campers to a new topic and field of study, encouraging them to think critically, explore big ideas, and engage deeply with the Humanities. From exploring the powers of storytelling, to stepping into another time period, every week will offer something new ensuring a summer filled with discovery, creativity, and fun.
Registration Now Open: Click Here!
Classes
Hands on History!
Ages: 10-12
It's time to get your hands dirty with this hands-on history camp! Campers will play historic games, create traditional crafts like paper marbling and quill writing, and make simple foods such as butter, ice cream, and biscuits.
Health and Safety Information: This camp will include outdoor activities and simple water games (such as relay races). Please ensure campers have sunscreen and water bottles. Part of this camp also includes making simple foods using heat appliances to bake and cook under the supervision and direction of staff. Food items will include dairy and wheat products. If you have allergen concerns, feel free to reach out with any questions.
This week is specifically geared toward the ages of 10-12.
Creative Writing
Ages: 10-12
How do you imagine a new world? Over the course of the week, students will build rich settings and create characters and storylines for fantasy, science fiction, dystopian, or supernatural stories. Engaging prompts, hands-on lessons, and model texts will guide young writers through the process of world building so they can begin their own imaginative tales.
This week is specifically geared toward the ages of 10-12.
For ages 13-15 interested in Creative Writing, please see the Week of July 6-10.
Cartoon Camp: Let's Make a Comic!
Age: 10-15
This week you make your very own FULL-PAGE COMIC! You will create a cool story about your own life, and learn how to pencil, ink, and color your very own cartoon! No drawing expertise required!
Please be aware this is a 4-day week. Camp tuition is set at a reduced rate of $144.
Time Traveler Camp: The Middle Ages
Ages: 10-15
Travel back in time to experience the age of shining armor and derring-do. As you train to be a medieval knight, you will also explore the food, music, art, and stories of the era. Hold an actual 600-year-old medieval book in your hands! Design your own crest and armor! Write with quill pens! Learn sword fighting! Explore the ideas and inventions of an era far from us in time by actually doing medieval crafts, training, and arts yourself.
Health and Safety Information: This camp will include outdoor and gym activities (such as relay races). Please ensure campers have sunscreen and water bottles. art of this camp also includes making simple foods using heat appliances to bake and cook under the supervision and direction of staff. Food items will include dairy and wheat products. If you have allergen concerns, feel free to reach out with any questions.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Latin America: Ask Video Games
Ages: 10-15
A course where Latin America comes to life through video games, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Latin America: Video Games Edition blends play, culture, history, and creativity into one engaging experience. Participants explore games inspired by the region, discuss stories about history and mythology, and even design their own game ideas. It’s interactive, fun, and meaningful offering more than gaming by building cultural awareness and creativity in a format participants genuinely enjoy.
Please be aware this is a 4-day week. Camp tuition is set at a reduced rate of $144.
Creative Writing
Ages: 13-15
How do you imagine a new world? Over the course of the week, students will build rich settings and create characters and storylines for fantasy, science fiction, dystopian, or supernatural stories. Engaging prompts, hands-on lessons, and model texts will guide young writers through the process of world building so they can begin their own imaginative tales.
This week is specifically geared toward the ages of 13-15.
Faculty
Joanna Davis-McElligatt is an assistant professor of English at UNT. She is the author of Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora (The Ohio State University Press, 2026). She is at work on her second monograph, entitled Nubia (UP of Mississippi), which offers a critical introduction to and study of Wonder Woman’s Black twin sister. Dr. Davis-McElligatt is also the co-editor of four volumes, an accomplished comic book artist, and the past president of the Comic Studies Society.
Daniel Carrillo-Jara has a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature, with a certificate
in Digital Humanities, from Purdue University. Their first monograph, Letter, Number, Data: Capital and Accumulation in the Canon of Peruvian Literature, analyzes the formation of the literary tradition in Peru through literary histories,
poetry anthologies, and Wikipedia entries from the early twentieth century to the
present. A specialist in Cultural Analytics, his scholarship combine the humanities
and data science, with an emphasis on visualization and textual analysis, using digital
methods to recover and preserve Latin American literary data and resources with two
main goals: to reclaim national literary heritage and to reduce the digital divide
between the Global North and Latin America. He is the director of the digital archive
From Disasters to Celebrations, which preserves Peruvian novels published between 1885 and 1921 and promotes the
digital repatriation of cultural heritage through open access.
Jonathan Louis Duckworth is a Lecturer at University of North Texas, where he received his PhD in Creative Writing (poetry). He also received his MFA (fiction) from Florida International University. He is the author of the short story collection Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors (2023, JournalStone Publishing) and his fiction appears in numerous venues including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Gulf Coast, Southwest Review, and more, as well as many anthologies. His poetry appears in dozens of magazines, including New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Meridian, Bayou, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere.
Greta Swain is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. She is a historian of early America who specializes in digital and public history. She has over ten years of experience making the past come to life through her work at several history centers, parks and museums. Her current book project reveals new insights about slavery and the development of the Chesapeake region in the 18th century through the lens of George Mason IV, his family, and the people they enslaved by employing digital analysis and visualizations, and focusing on waterways, aquatic business ventures and local connections.
Kathryne Beebe is a late-medieval historian who specializes in the cultural history
of spirituality in Europe and the materiality of medieval sources, including codicology
and paleography. In her research, she focuses on questions of religious reform, gender,
and pilgrimage — with a strong interdisciplinary interest in using the approaches
of history, literature, anthropology, and the Digital Humanities to investigate those
topics. She is currently in the process of writing a book that investigates the connection
between imagined, or "virtual" pilgrimage (for travelers who journeyed only in the
imagination) and Observant religious reform in medieval Europe. Dr. Beebe is also
directing or engaged with several Digital Humanities research projects, including The Gebetsbuch Project, The Digital Observance Network, and a GIS-based project exploring the spread of Observant
reform through visualization and mapping.
Registration Information & Tuition
To register, fill out and submit all required forms and documentation to leaph@unt.edu.
Registration Deadline:
Registration deadline will be 10 business days prior to the start of the intended camp week.
Registration Overview:
There will be two parts to the registration process. First, fill out and submit the forms. Second, use the online registration and payment portal here.
- One Child = One Form: If you’re registering more than one child, please complete one form per child. This helps us keep each child’s information accurate.
- Registering Multiple Campers in the Portal: To add an additional registrant, please start a new registration and use a unique email address (different email) from the previous registrant.
- If you are registering for multiple weeks, you only need to fill out the registration forms once. In the payment portal you will indicate the week or weeks you are signing up for.
Tuition:
Camp tuition is $180 per week. This includes program fees and cost of supplies.
For 4 day weeks (June 15-19 and June 29-July 3) there will be a 20% reduced price of $144.
Forms
To participate, all campers need to have the following forms filled out and submitted 10 business days prior to camp attendance.
FAQs
Do I have to enroll in every week?
Each week will be an indepednent subject and experience taught and lead by UNT faculty. You can sign up for just one week, or multiple, it's up to you! Since each week is independent, there are a few age restrictions regarding some of the content to facilitate learning and comprehension. Please pay attention to the age specifications for the week you are enrolling in.
What are the camp hours of operations?
This will be a half day summer camp.
- Camp runs Monday through Friday, 1pm - 5pm.
- Drop off will begin at 12:30pm.
- Pick-up required by 5:30pm.
What is the attendance capacity?
This camp will have a cap of 25 students per week. Register while there's still space!
Will there be lunch?
Camp begins after lunch. Lunch will not be provided. Please ensure your camper has eaten before arriving.
Where will camp take place and where do I drop off my child?
Camp will be located in the UNT History Department spaces in Wooten Hall. You will be able to park in the attached Wooten Faculty/Staff Parking Lot #37 for 15 minutes to facilitate drop off and pick-up. Specifications regarding drop-off and pick-up will be communicated prior to your camp week.
Cancellations, Exchanges, & Refunds:
- All sales will be considered final.
- In the event a camp does not meet the minimum enrollment, the UNT Humanities Department reserves the right to cancel. If a camp is cancelled by the UNT Humanities Department because it did not meet minimum enrollment, patrons will have the option to transfer to another camp or class or receive a full refund.
- In the event of a camp cancellation due to inclement weather, including the period of time required to re-open the facilities after the immediate weather incident has passed, there will be no refunds or exchanges.
- In the event it is necessary to send a child home due to behavior or illness, the UNT Humanities Department is unable to provide either a full or partial refund.
Additional Questions? Contact us at leaph@unt.edu.