ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE SUMMER ACADEMY

DATES:

Session 1: June 25 - July 1, 2017

Session 2: July 2 - July 8, 2017

Session 3: July 9 - July 15, 2017

Session 4: July 16 - July 22, 2017

Session 5: July 23 - July 29, 2017

Application Deadline: June 16, 2017
No application fee
Electronic Application (requirements: 100 word short answer & unofficial transcript)

COST:

$1,100/session before June 2, 2017

$1,250/session after June 2, 2017

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE SUMMER ACADAMY

ABOUT OUR PROGRAM

St. John's College Summer Academy is a residential, pre-college program for 15 to 18 year olds that nurtures critical thinking and personal growth.

Organized in week-long sessions, each session is designed around a specific theme that explores weighty questions and ideas. Stay for one or more weeks!

How can one know oneself? What law governs human beings? At the Summer Academy students investigate these and other questions by reading works written by the greatest thinkers of Western culture and talking about their ideas in discussion-based classes taught by college faculty.

Students also participate in an eclectic array of workshops-from poetry writing to archery to swing dance-and enjoy off-campus excursions to museums and historic sites. As described by a 2016 participant, the Summer Academy "nourishes the mind, body, and soul."

Participating in the Summer Academy provides a great introduction to St. John's renowned education, to college life, and to the intellectual freedom that can be realized at liberal arts colleges.

COURSES

Session 1: Origins Should we care about origins?
Classes & Readings
Seminar (literature): Aeschylus, Bible, Zhuangzi
Mathematics:Euclid
Language (poetry): Blake, Wordsworth, T'ao Ch'ien

Session 2: Life What is it to be alive?
Classes & Readings
Seminar (philosophy & literature): Plato, Epictetus, Katha Upanishad
Laboratory (science): van Leeuwenhoek, Hooke, Marais
Language (poetry): Goethe, Frost, Auden, Milosz

Session 3: Self-Knowledge How can one know oneself? What is the self?
Classes & Readings
Seminar (philosophy): Aristotle, Bergson, Jonas
Language:La Rochefoucauld, Pascal
Music: Beethoven

Session 4: Justice, Nature, and Law What law governs human beings?
Classes & Readings
Seminar (drama, philosophy, religious text): Sophocles, Plato, Bible
Language: (literature & political oratory): Kafka, O'Connor, Lincoln, Welty
Laboratory (science): Pascal

Session 5: The Heart of the Matter What moves the heart?
Classes & Readings
Seminar (literature & drama): Austen, Shakespeare
Language: (literature & philosophy): Dante, Montaigne, Pascal, Welty
Laboratory (science): Harvey

CAMPUS LOCATION

Sessions 1 - 3:
St. John's College
1160 Camino Cruz Blanca
Santa Fe, NM 87505
800-331- 5232
[email protected]

Sessions 4 & 5:
St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
60 College Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21401
800-727- 9238
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