UC San Diego Academic Connections provides a pre-college summer experience that is academically enriching to a diverse population of high-achieving, college-bound high school students motivated to explore the offerings of UC San Diego – a top five, internationally ranked public institution.
Academic Connections encourages young people to engage with the future by exposing them to some of the most exciting fields of research and study. Participants will work with committed and enthusiastic graduate students to examine the world around them as inquisitive academic scholars.
Courses are selected to represent some of the most exciting fields of research and study UC San Diego has to offer in the physical and social sciences, engineering, and arts and humanities. All courses are challenging and place emphasis on active learning and putting knowledge to use in independent and creative ways. Each student that completes the program can earn six units of UC San Diego Division of Extended Studiues Pre-College credit.
Register for Summer 2023 Now! Offering both residential and online programs.
Residential Program (In-Person & On Campus): July 9 - July 29, 2023
- 101 College Writing for Success
- A History of Electronic Instruments and the Music They Inspired
- Computers and COVID: An Introduction to Programming and Computational Biology
- Intersectional Identities and the Sociological Imagination
- Introduction to Marine Invertebrates and Phylogenetics
Online Courses: July 3 - July 28, 2023
- Animating Narratives: Disney, Cultural Production, and Critical Literacy
- Comparative Political Violence
- Introduction to Biophysics
- Introduction to Human Emotion: An Emotional Approach to Critical Thinking and Critical Writing
- Introduction to Python Programming
- Islam and Muslims in the Twenty-First Century
- Language and Identity for Bilingual Writers
- Python Advanced Topics
Scholarships are available for select courses through a partnership with the Inamori Foundation.
Academic Connections Summer 2023
Residential Program: July 9 – July 29, 2023
- Course Tuition & Housing: $5,700
- Course Tuition, Housing & Online SAT Prep Course: $5,900
Registration Deadline: May 26, 2023
Online Courses: July 3 – July 28, 2023
- Course Tuition: $1,500
- Course Tuition & Online SAT Prep Course: $1,700
Registration Deadline: June 16, 2023
