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.
Death from Above: Weaponized Drones and Persistent Surveillance - AS.190.234
Pre-College students & Undergraduate students May 28 - June 28 Homewood CampusFor all the controversy surrounding the use of drones in domestic and international operations, the ramifications of their deployment are not yet clear. This course explores the theoretical and political implications stemming from the introduction of drones into various geopolitical spaces. Most simply put, we will be asking what it means to project power without vulnerability. More specifically, we will draw from recent scholarship from a variety of fields to analyze different use cases, geographic theaters, and short- and long-term impacts of their deployment. Issues of asymmetry, surveillance, precision, civilians/enemy combatants, vulnerability, chains of command, and agency will be central to our study.
This course is scheduled to run Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Please note: on Wednesdays, this course only meets from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Understanding the Food System - AS.190.223
Pre-College students & Undergraduate students July 1 - August 2 Homewood CampusThis course examines the politics and policies that shape the production and consumption of food. Topics include food security, obesity, crop and animal production, and the impacts of agriculture on climate change. We will also consider the vulnerabilities of our food system to challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as efforts to transform food and agriculture through new food technologies and grass-roots movements to create a more democratic food system.
This course is scheduled to run Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Students who have completed AS.190.405 (Food Politics) may not enroll in this class.