With hundreds of courses offered every Summer, the options can be overwhelming! We’re shining a spotlight on a selection of courses designed to diversify your experience and broaden your horizons.
The courses highlighted below are newly developed, offer unique elements or learning outcomes, highlight a trending topic, or open up to non-majors during the Summer Quarter. We’ll keep adding to this list to connect you with hard-to-find courses that make a lasting impact.
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A class on social, scientific, and narrative understandings of time and how to use those ideas to tell stories.
This 8-unit immersive course supports students in a unique exploration of Shakespearean works on page and stage. Scholarships are available to offset the unit fees associated with the course.
This course will examine the utopian dream through history, literature, philosophy, and public memory. Starting with a historical and philosophical background of the concepts and unintended consequences of idealism, the course will then turn to focus more narrowly on our own planned community of Isla Vista. Scholarships are available to offset the unit fees associated with the course, and it fulfills GE requirements for Area E and Writing.
Students will create three engaging ~800 word articles on local climate change actions that will be considered for publication in Blue Dot Magazine. Steps toward the article will include: learning the latest climate science, pitching to Blue Dot Magazine, and supporting an article with photography and social media publicity.
Students will search archives and museum collections to find an item and write about its connection to them, history, and today. Those one-page responses, in prose or poetry, will be designed with consideration of typeface, color, layered imagery, and symbolic motifs. They will be bound into an archival book.
