Summer Academic Programs
To know is not enough. No approach to education is better geared to meet the challenges ahead than the Hampshire model: experience-based, learner-centered, inquiry-driven. Hampshire is extreme sports for the mind.
Each June and July, Hampshire College has offered a variety of summer academic programs designed to reflect our academic philosophy by linking critical engagement to experience-based education. Our programs supported diverse learning communities: undergraduates, pre-college students, graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and life-long learners. Immersive, rigorous, challenging, and fun, these programs delve deeply into their given topic or subject matter.
Current Program
- Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics: an intensive six-week encounter with college-level mathematics for talented and highly motivated high school students.
Past College Programs Offered
- Creative Media Institute
- Designing Social Impact
- Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute
- Screenwriting for Film and Video
- Stop Motion Animation Intensive
- TESOL Teacher Training
- The Institute for Curatorial Practice
- The Institute for Linguistics, Image, and Text
- The Institute for Transforming Social Justice
Past Precollege Programs Offered
- Arts and Activism
- Art and the Internet
- Blacksmithing, Jewelry Design, and Metal Fabrication
- Citizens United
- Creative Media Institute Viewfinders
- Gene Cloning
- Inside the Cell: Immersion into the Biology Laboratory
- Micro-Controllers and Hardware Design
- Young Feminist Collaborative
- Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics