The Summer Academy at St. John’s College

A Great Week with Great Works

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Annapolis, Maryland:  June 24-30, 2012
Santa Fe, New Mexico: June 24-30 and July 1-7, 2012
Frequently Asked Questions

Get a taste of freedom this summer. Spend a week (or two!) at St. John’s College exploring great ideas with other high school students. Modeled on the St. John’s Program, the Summer Academy offers participants a rich experience reading and discussing original texts in small discussion classes with faculty members experienced in guiding thoughtful and lively conversations.  Students will learn to read texts closely, question their assumptions about the ideas they encounter in them, articulate their own ideas clearly through collaborative inquiry and dialogue, share insights, and listen actively. 

Each campus is located in a dynamic and historic state capital, rich with natural beauty and cultural opportunities available to the group through coordinated excursions. Students live in the dormitories with undergraduate Summer Academy staff, as well as an adult Senior Resident.

Open to rising high school juniors or seniors and to graduating seniors taking gap years. Tuition: $990. Includes room, board, books, and cultural excursions.

2012 Curricula (listed by week)

Annapolis, June 24 - 30, 2012

Seminar
Plato, Apology of Socrates
Epictetus, Handbook
Plutarch, Life of Cato 
Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Language Tutorial
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mathematics Tutorial
Questions on Multiplication 
Euclid, Elements, Book VI, VII
Descartes, Geometry
Viete, Introduction to the Analytical Art

Santa Fe, June 24 - 30, 2012: Beginnings

Seminar
Aeschylus, Promethus Bound
The Bible, "Genesis"
Plutarch, "Romulus"
W.H. Auden, "Unpredictable but Providential"

Language Tutorial
Herodotus, Histories, Book II
The Bible, "Genesis"
Rousseau, "Essay on the Origin of Language"

Mathematics Tutorial
Euclid, Elements, Book I
Plato, Meno

Laboratory
Archimedes, "On the Equilibrium of Planes"

Santa Fe, July 1 - 7, 2012: Friendship and Love

Seminar
Plato, Phaedrus
Aristotle, Ethics
Cicero, On Friendship, or Laelius

Language Tutorial
Sappho, poems
Dante, Divine Comedy
Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

Mathematics Tutorial
Ptolemy, Almagest

Music Tutorial
Galilei, Dialogo Della Musica Antica e Della Moderna
Monteverdi, L'Orfeo

If you have any questions, please contact:

Alexandria Hinds (Annapolis)
summeracademy@sjca.edu
PO Box 2800
Annapolis, Maryland 21403
1-800-727-9238
410-269-7916 (FAX)

Kathleen Longwaters (Santa Fe)
summeracademy@sjcsf.edu
1160 Camino Cruz Blanca
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
1-800-331-5232
505-984-6162 (FAX)