Summer Studies for College & Advanced High School Students

Many colleges are offering summer courses, which are a great way to take a class or two and continue to explore your academic interests and continue progress on completing your college degree.  In this post, I want to provide information about summer courses offered at three independent, not-for-profit, liberal arts colleges that are part of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.

Knox College Summer Studies

This is the maiden summer for an academic summer term at Knox College.  Classes meet two and a half hours a day, five days a week. from June 9 - July 2, 2021.  Knox bills per class (equivalent to 3.3 credit hours), at $1600 per class, with discounts and some federal financial aid available to qualifying students.  You should submit the appropriate registration forms by May 7, and payment is due on May 20. 

St Olaf College Summer Terms

St Olaf College operates two summer terms, the first running June 7 - July 15; the second running July 19 - August 25, 2021.  Registration opened on March 8.  Current students register through the SIS portal; all others fill out the guest registration form. 

To see courses offered during the summer term, run a search for all departments and all majors during each summer term.  An illustration of what that search looks like for a Summer Session 2 search is included below:

Beloit College Summer Courses

Beloit has a well developed summer study program, divided into three group: Virtual Summer Blocks meeting three weeks from May 31- June 18; Virtual Summer Mods that run seven weeks from June 21-August 6; and Center for Language Studies covering a full year of college language studies in two 3.5-week terms, from June 21 - August 6.  Summer blocks and mods cost $2400 per course; language studies cost $4000 for the full seven weeks (billed $2000 at a time).  Beloit also uniquely offers a summer course in collection care, for the future museum curators amongst us.

How will you spend your summer?  

Please let me know of other programs that you think offer great opportunities for summer study and enrichment.  And please let me know if you have other topics that you would like my to explore in the future post!