Summer Academic Programs

To know is not enough. No approach to education is better geared to meet the challenges ahead than the Hampshire model: experience-based, learner-centered, inquiry-driven. Hampshire is extreme sports for the mind.

Each June and July, Hampshire College has offered a variety of summer academic programs designed to reflect our academic philosophy by linking critical engagement to experience-based education. Our programs supported diverse learning communities: undergraduates, pre-college students, graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and life-long learners. Immersive, rigorous, challenging, and fun, these programs delve deeply into their given topic or subject matter.

Current Program

Past College Programs Offered

  • Creative Media Institute
  • Designing Social Impact
  • Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute
  • Screenwriting for Film and Video
  • Stop Motion Animation Intensive
  • TESOL Teacher Training
  • The Institute for Curatorial Practice
  • The Institute for Linguistics, Image, and Text
  • The Institute for Transforming Social Justice

Past Precollege Programs Offered

  • Arts and Activism
  • Art and the Internet
  • Blacksmithing, Jewelry Design, and Metal Fabrication
  • Citizens United
  • Creative Media Institute Viewfinders
  • Gene Cloning
  • Inside the Cell: Immersion into the Biology Laboratory
  • Micro-Controllers and Hardware Design
  • Young Feminist Collaborative
  • Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
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