Summer College: The Art and Science of Survival
“College survival is much like wilderness survival.”
Wittenberg’s Summer College is pre-college transitional program for newly admitted first-year students. Through Summer College, you will have the opportunity to participate in a two-week residential program geared at helping you make a successful transition from high school to college. The two-week program is structured similarly to a typical college period with 20 hours of instruction time. This year's program is scheduled for August 6th to 20th.
Summer College will offer you:
By the start of the fall semester you'll be well acquainted with the Wittenberg campus; you'll have gained confidence in meeting and talking with professors; and you'll know a close-knit circle of freshmen. Past participants have emphasized the advantages of being less intimidated and better prepared for college life, and with less pressure on their course load.
What is the class about?
College survival is much like wilderness survival - lessons from one transfer to the other. This course will show how the essential elements of wilderness survival—self-reliance and a mind open to the wonders around it—will serve a student well in college. This course examines human survival from a variety of academic perspectives, including biology, psychology, physics, medicine, and literature. This ability to consider a topic from different points of view is close to the spirit of liberal education at Wittenberg, and our hope is that this program will introduce first-year students not only to a new academic subject, human survival, but also to an interdisciplinary style of learning that will help them in their transition to college.
This is a writing- and thinking-intensive 2-credit course, and students will practice the foundational skills of college writing through daily, hands-on workshops and seminars. The course deliberately integrates skill development in note and test taking, study habits, and where to find Wittenberg resources to help students excel, and is designed for the student transitioning to college. It should prove useful to any entering first-year student.
Who are the students?
Incoming Wittenberg freshmen who choose to participate in the Summer College program are generally members of their class who want an academic advantage. They come for many reasons including those who want to lighten the heavy load required for graduation. Above all, they want to make good choices and get the most possible from their college years.
(Program is subject to cancellation without minimum enrollment.)
