All students are required to take math (beginning algebra to trigonometry) courses in the Summer Program. These classes are designed to help students develop general skills and academic work habits that they can apply to their freshmen coursework.
All students are required to take composition (Writing) courses in the Summer Program. These classes are designed to help students develop general skills and academic work habits that they can apply to their freshmen coursework.
This course will explore perspectives on influence of culture and context on development. An emphasis will be placed on the role that structural inequalities based on race/ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexuality have on development.
Overview of historical and contemporary patterns of multicultural geography within the U.S. Provides students an understanding of the evolution of several American subcultures (white European, Latino, Asian and Black) through the prism of geography, both in broad context and in separate analyses of socio-economic well-being over time and between racial/ethnic groups. The student is constantly reminded of the question: How do social institutions, the political economy, and degree of opportunity affect where and how well people live? Students learn to better understand patterns of the past and of today from a geographic perspective.
