Academic Life
Taking on the demands of full-time college-level study, compressed into 5 weeks, is
challenging for any student. For this reason, we encourage pre-college students to
study what they want to study, not so much what they think they ought to study. Choose
a class in an area where you feel your strengths lie. Or delve into an unexplored
subject to challenge your perceptions and discover new fields of knowledge. The path
you take to prepare for your future as a college student is as unique as you are.
Pre-College students may enroll in any foundation-level liberal or studio art course
offered as part of Skidmore’s Summer Session for college students. Skidmore’s unique curriculum allows students to take either two studio art courses, two liberal arts courses, or one of each. Offerings include a wide range of courses drawn from the humanities, social and natural
sciences; studio art courses and workshops; and an array of special topics courses
from diverse disciplines that provide singular experiences. In addition to the courses
that carry standard Skidmore credit, generally transferable to any other college or
university, students who wish to investigate the studio arts without the pressure
of grades may enroll in non-credit workshops.
Download course descriptions (PDF)
Summer 2013 Courses
- Introduction to Painting
- Basic Ceramics - course and workshop
- Introduction to Fiber Arts - course and workshop
- Visual Concepts - course and workshop
- Color
- Beginning Photography - workshop
- Printmaking: Image + Process = Book - workshop
- Drawing Project - Workshop
HUMANITIES
- Writing Seminar I
- Writing Seminar II
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Japanese Popular Culture
- Elementary German
- Religion and Culture
- Armageddon and All That: Religious Stories About the End of the World
- Resisting Hitler
SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Anthropology of the Human Past
- Regional Culture: Hudson River
- Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Introduction to Psychology
- Statistical Methods in Psychology I
- Sociological Perspectives
NATURAL SCIENCES/MATHEMATICS
- Fundamentals of Chemistry
- Calculus with Algebra
- Earth Systems Science
- Physics: Light and Color
