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Description:
The Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges provides exceptional opportunities to explore the scientific, social, and humanistic perspectives of environmental issues.
The Institute offers a two-week, college-level interdisciplinary program for talented high-school students entering their junior and senior years. The program is designed as an introduction to a variety of environmental issues and perspectives on nature and our environment. Students will conduct research with faculty members in a variety of locations: on the HWS Scandling (a 65-foot vessel on Seneca Lake), in streams, quaking bogs, the Adirondack Mountains, and the Colleges' science laboratories. Working in the field, in laboratories, in classrooms, and on a four-day Adirondack research trip, students will explore a range of topics in environmental policy, economics, and ethics, and come to see the natural world through the eyes of artists, historians, philosophers, and scientists. A love of nature, learning, and the outdoors provides the focus for this unique educational experience.
The Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute is located in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes region, on beautiful Seneca Lake
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Program Information:
coed • talented high school students entering junior and senior years • residential • length of session: 2 weeks • July 11 - 24, 2010
Required: high school transcript (including fall grades and SAT or PSAT scores, when available), sent to us directly by your school ) and letter of recommendation from a teacher
Admission to the Institute is on a rolling basis. Applications are reviewed on the 15th of every month, starting in December. There are only 34 spaces available, so we encourage students to apply ASAP
You will be awarded college credit by Hobart and William Smith Colleges for successful completion of the Institute. The total fee for the program is $2200. This covers tuition and course materials, campus housing, meals, and all program activities, including transportation and lodging on field trips.
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Geneva, N.Y.
