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High School Summer Institute
 

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • PROGRAM DATES
    July 5 – August 6, 2010
  • Application available
    beginning April 2010
  • Admission App. Deadline:
    June 11, 2010
  • Registration Deadline:
    June 18, 2010
  • Orientation:
    June 26, 2010 11:00 AM
  • Course Withdrawal Deadline:
    July 13, 2010
  • Showcase:
    August 6, 2010
 

Summer in the City

The High School Summer Institute is an intensive non-residential 5-week program for creative high school students that have completed their sophomore, junior, or senior year of study who want to immerse themselves in the visual, media, and communication arts.

Students spend the summer exploring their ideas, developing the technical skills that bring their ideas to life, and earning college credit while they’re at it!

High School Summer Institute students study with the same working professionals and scholars who teach Columbia’s undergraduates. Students also hone their craft in Columbia’s state-of-the-art facilities—film and video production and post-production studios, photography labs, animation labs, graphic design labs, dance studios, concert halls, theater stages, radio station, recording facilities, art studios, performance spaces, television studios, and more.

Columbia’s campus is located in the heart of downtown Chicago—smack dab in the middle of the South Loop and Chicago’s Arts and Education Corridor. We are steps from Grant Park (literally, 45 steps - we’ve counted), Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Field Museum, The Theater District, Orchestra Hall, The Chicago Cultural Center, and The Magnificent Mile (the best shopping in Chicago)!

The online application for HSSI 2010 will be available the first week of April 2010.