Summer Term Undergraduate Courses
Summer Term includes for-credit courses in the arts, the sciences, math, and engineering. Review the options in your desired college major or diversify your interests by choosing a new discipline to study.
Filter your search to customize your view into the catalog. Some undergraduate courses are also available to qualified pre-college students.
Early Modern Europe & the Wider World - AS.100.103
Pre-College students & Undergraduate students July 1 - August 2 Homewood CampusThis survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.
This course is scheduled to run Tuesday and Thursday between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Error and Chaos in Military History - AS.100.141
Pre-College students & Undergraduate students July 1 - August 2 Homewood CampusWhat does the aphorism that “war is hell” mean in practical terms? The course will serve as a deconstructive introduction to military history, overviewing soldiers’ and generals’ experiences of historically significant military disasters. Students will also be guided through the creation of a research paper on a conflict of their own choosing.
This course is scheduled to run Monday and Wednesday between 1 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.