Harvard Summer School

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Harvard University
Summer School
Established 1871
Type Private
Dean Donald H. Pfister
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Campus Urban
Website summer.harvard.edu

History

Origins

Harvard Summer School was founded in 1871. It is the first academic summer session established and the oldest summer school present in the United States. The Summer School is part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is one of the principal programs within the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.

Academics

Each summer more than 5000 students arrive from across the U.S. and more than 100 foreign countries. Approximately 20 percent of students who study at the summer school are Harvard undergraduate or graduate students studying to fulfill degree requirements. Also students from other major American and foreign universities enroll in the summer program to study for seven weeks with Harvard faculty and visiting faculty members and scholars from other institutions.

The Summer School offers approximately 300 daytime and evening classes in more than forty disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, writing, economics, computer science, and more than a dozen foreign languages. The summer school also consists of an Institute for English Language Programs (IEL), the Ukrainian Summer Institute,[1] and an extensive study abroad program.[2]

The Summer School does not offer any degrees but grants college and graduate credits. All liberal-arts courses at the summer school are vetted by departments to ensure they meet the standards for Harvard College credit.

References

  1. ↑ HURI Program Website
  2. ↑ Harvard Summer School Website

Further reading

  • Pier, Arthur Stanwood The Pedagogues: A Story Of The Harvard Summer School, Nabu Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1276697934

External links

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