afternoon option 2: mini-courses

Mini-courses are investigations into a variety of subjects, allowing you to sample from a breadth of academic, athletic, and cultural disciplines. They are created, developed, and taught by Exploration faculty and are new every summer. If you choose the mini-course option, you will take two different mini-courses (one M300 numbered mini-course and one M400 numbered mini-course) over the duration of each session. To sign up for mini-courses, check off the mini-course option on the application and a mini-course sign-up form will be mailed to you after enrollment.

Mini-courses meet for a total of six periods on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 2:00-3:00pm. Students who choose not to enroll in mini-courses must enroll in a Princeton Review course during the afternoon academic period.


2008 mini-course listings

The following mini-courses were offered during the summer of 2008. While we will offer a similar range of mini-courses for 2009, specific mini-courses may change. New mini-course listings will be announced in the Spring of 2009.


mini-course options
Soccer Fencing
Ultimate Frisbee Rugby
Skateboarding History + Culture Basketball
Latin Dance Playground Games
Touch Football Middle Eastern Dance
Ballet Baseball
Sewing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Guitar Appreciation Pilates
Films of Johnny Depp Sitcom Scenes
Scrapbooking Guerilla Theater
Duct Tape + Design Evolution of Punk Rock
Cartoon + Satire Glass Painting
Stage Combat Tie Dying
30 Second Spot Knitting
Arabic Culture + Society Women's Poetry
Short Story Writing Conversational German
Chinese Language + Society Blogs, Blogging, Blogger
Newspaper Column Writing Fairytales + Myths
De-Stereotype Me Playwriting
Cryptozoology The Other America
Adventure Literature Imperialism Today
Modern Adaptations of Shakespeare Religion + Science in the West
Got Human Rights? Running a Coffee Shop
Propaganda in the Nazi Regime Anchors of America
Zulu Nation Cults + Communes
The Psychology of Harry Potter The Psychology of Happiness
Does God Exist? Social Movements
The Love of the Game Gender + Politics in Hip-Hop
Religion + Nature Sibling Psychology
Race in the U.S. Existentialism
What is an American? Race in Education
Theology + Philosophy on Film Food, Bodies, Power
Ethics of International Relations The Sociology of Drugs + Alcohol
Body Image MythBusters
The Chemistry Behind Art Energy
Energy Water World
A Journey Into the Human Brain Dream Interpretation
What If Euclid Was Wrong? Engineering
New Genetics How Old is Earth?
Philosophy of Physics Strategic Thinking in Games



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