Monday, February 22, 2021

Cornell University's Precollege Summer Program


Encourage your students to explore the arts with
Cornell University's Precollege Summer Program

https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege

We'd like to let you know about several great summer online courses that may help your students build upon what they've learned in your classes. Due to COVID-19, summer courses will be held exclusively online. Please share this information with your students and colleagues.


Art as Experience (ART 1101) June 1–17 and June 21–July 9. This is an introductory course that expands a student's understanding of the ideas and practices of art today. Studio projects will introduce a broad range of mediums from drawing and collage to digital photography and video installation. (3 credits; open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors)

Art as Experience: Photography (ART 1104) June 1–17 and June 21–July 9. In this introductory course students will learn the principles of capturing an image and managing and editing digital files. They will develop the capacity to produce well-crafted and effectively structured images that communicate meaningful content. (3 credits; open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors)

Art as Experience II: Transmedia (ART 1102) June 21–July 9. This course introduces students to digital art creation, manipulation and theory. Students will have hands on experience with digital image acquisition, recording and editing video and sound, and computer programming for interactive media based applications. (3 credits; open to sophomores, juniors & seniors)

Design Generation(s) (DEA 1100) June 21–July 9. Students will learn how designers think, solve problems, and improve our world. The course also introduces design methodologies for creative thinking and practice design skills: sketching, modeling, prototyping, graphics, exhibition design. (3 credits; open to juniors and seniors)

Fashion Design (FSAD 1120) July 12–30. This course balances theoretical and studio approaches in the design and two-dimensional representation of fashion. (3 credits; open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors)

Making a Difference by Design (DEA 1110/COGST 1111) July 12–30. This course provides a broad overview of design applied various disciplines, scales, and problem contexts, and how design can offer an alternative, and often more human-centered perspective towards solving the problems around us. (3 credits; open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors)

These online classes and dozens more are part of Cornell University's acclaimed Precollege Summer Program, which offers motivated high school students from around the world the chance to earn credits and a Cornell transcript, immerse themselves in rigorous college courses taught by top-notch faculty, and prep for college admissions.

Courses are offered between June 1 and August 3, 2021, and limited financial aid is available.

Application deadlines vary, beginning May 17. See the website for details.


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