Summer Programs for High School and College Students Open for 2016

Hampshire Summer Programs are widely-known as rigorous and hands-on, enabling enrolled students to drive their own studies and projects. The programs invite students to challenge themselves and build their portfolios and resumes.

The college offers two separate tracks, one for pre-college high school juniors and seniors, and one for college and graduate students.

PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS will run July 18 to July 29, 2016, for students entering their junior or senior year of high school, led by Hampshire faculty and experienced alumni. Programs include:

• Creative Media Viewfinders exposes students to a range of nonfiction and fiction film, video, and photography skills and practices. 
• Gene Cloning is a biology laboratory-intensive boot camp.
• Summer Studies in Mathematics, now in its 43rd year, is an intensive six-week encounter with college-level mathematics for highly motivated high school students.
• Young Feminist Collaborative is a collaboration between the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire and the Soapbox Feminist Camp, mixing historical and political contexts of activism with exposure to careers in social justice and non-profits.
• Art and the Internet invites students to make meaning from the chaos of the internet.
• Micro-Controllers and Hardware Design will jump-start students in micro-controller software and hardware design.
• Blacksmithing, Bladesmithing, and Beyond introduces students to metalworking with an emphasis on hot forging, casting, and manipulation.

COLLEGE PROGRAMS run between June 1 to July 1, 2016, and are for undergrads, grad students, post-B.A.s, professionals, and high school seniors who graduate before summer 2016. Offerings include:

• Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute is a 4-week, interdisciplinary program based at the vibrant Hampshire College Farm Center.
• The Institute for Curatorial Practice is a 5-week intensive program focused on the practice of curation: material, digital, and imaginary.
• The Institute for Transforming Social Justice is a 4-week intensive program on the study and practice of creating social change.  (Read how one of last year's students from Mississippi was inspired to launch a social justice program at her University.)
• TESOL Teacher Training Course is a 4-week program that provides a foundation for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

For more information visit Summer.Hampshire.edu