Summer Seminar

How do we pack a semester's worth of learning into three weeks? Check out a sample of our daily schedule.

What does Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" have in common with Plato's Crito? A lot. 

Is living on a college campus fun? Stressful? Weird? Smelly? A great way to meet new people? Yes!

We draw esteemed faculty from Columbia, Princeton, Bard, Hostos, Vassar and the Teagle Foundation. Each considers this course to be the highlight of their year.

Learn more about the guests lecturers and seminar leaders we have invited to speak to students in past summers.

Our summer field trips are a chance to see how the ideas we're reading manifest in the world around us.