Academic Programs
Students may choose one of the following programs and schedules.
THREE-WEEK PROGRAM: July 5 - 24, 2010
Designed exclusively for high school students, these classes are intensive learning experiences that meet Monday through Friday, combining both in-class instruction and hands-on activities or group fieldwork. Students earn three hours of college credit. Courses include*:
- Law and Social Justice, which introduces students to the work of the legal profession. Activities include debates and a mock trial.
- Environmental Biology, which connects students to Loyola's own center of excellence in environmental research.
- Creative Writing, a workshop-based course designed to help students discover and develop their creative voice.
- Entrepreneurship, a course that examines trends and practices of contemporary entrepreneurs, including values-based and ethical decision-making.
- Convergence Journalism, which focuses on reporting the news to the public. Using Loyola's new interactive media laboratory, students will learn to create and tape interviews, shoot video, and produce the news.
- Theatrical Experience, an introductory study of the theatrical art form and its contemporary production practice. Students engage in a series of workshops and participate in various creative projects, including analyzing a play script, evaluating a theatrical production, and creatively applying knowledge of theatrical process.
- Museum Studies, which allows students to interact with curators in collections, exhibitions, and programming at the Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), providing a strong foundational understanding of best museum practices.
Three-week program: July 25 - August 14, 2010
Designed exclusively for high school students, these classes are intensive learning experiences that meet Monday through Friday, combining both in-class instruction and hands-on activities or group fieldwork. Students earn three hours of college credit. Courses include*:
- Creative Non-fiction, which allows students to write and create nonfiction narratives while learning to apply both traditional fictional techniques alongside innovative formats.
- Urban Field Studies, a fieldwork-based course that explores how communities are shaped by social, economic, and political forces, and by grass-roots activism and community organization. In this seminar, coordinated with Loyola’s Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL), students visit with community leaders, politicians, advocates, religious leaders, and others working for positive change in the city.
- Precalculus, which focuses on functions and change with an emphasis on linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their graphs. Specific geometric topics include concavity and how transformations affect graphs. Topics in trigonometry include radians, sinusoidal functions, identities, sum/difference formulas, double/half angle formulas, and trigonometric equations. Other topics include polar coordinates.
Six-Week Program: June 29 - August 7, 2009
Students in the six-week program enroll in two courses offered as part of the regular undergraduate curriculum, and attend classes alongside Loyola students and summer visitors. They may choose any two courses from the course list, making sure to avoid scheduling conflicts.
Students may also choose a topic-based "course cluster," which consists of two courses taught from different academic disciplines that explore the same topic. Students will learn how different methodologies work with different intellectual frameworks and produce different kinds of knowledge. By approaching a topic from multiple viewpoints, students will enhance their critical thinking skills and learn to take responsibility for their learning during their future college careers. View sample course clusters here*.
Take a minute to review all your course options. Courses are subject to change. Click here to view classes.
* The subjects and individual courses listed may change once the final summer schedule is approved or if classess meet their capacities.
