The Summer Seminar is an immersive opportunity for rising high school juniors and seniors to get a taste of the college experience — and shape it for themselves.
Over the course of an intensive month, up to 32 students undertake fast-paced, intellectually rigorous academic coursework; engage in work-based service and meaningful labor in Sitka; and practice self-governance of key elements of Outer Coast. Through a small seminar, close-knit residential living, and involvement in the wider Sitka community, Outer Coast students learn how to identify, analyze, and address the challenges — both big and small — that face the world today. Rising high school juniors and seniors participate alongside high school graduates and build mutually beneficial near-peer mentorship bonds.
In the fast-paced Summer Seminar environment, students earn college credit, practice the mechanics of making change, and build meaningful relationships as part of an intentional learning community.
The Summer Seminar 2024 will run from June 20 – July 20. Applications are due March 1, 2024.
Summer Seminar 2024 Faculty
Lizzie Krontiris received her PhD in Political Theory at Yale University in 2019. She wrote her dissertation on Hannah Arendt’s concept of “the common world” and the problem of building shared reality in politics. She is currently a faculty member in the Writing Program at Wellesley College and teaches first-year writing courses on topics including the problem of lying in politics, the purpose and social function of higher education, and the way that work gets valued and shaped by modern capitalism. She has also taught courses for Yale College, the Warrior-Scholar Project, Chicago’s Odyssey Project, and the GCE Lab School in Chicago.
Erika Bullock, from San Francisco, California, is a PhD candidate in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, where she studies the history of American higher education. Erika’s dissertation project is a history of alternative education programs in the Bay Area in the 1960s-1980s. She has worked on historical projects ranging from the history of activism and college curricula to the history of college access and admissions, as well as educational curriculum reforms across high school and undergraduate education spaces. She has taught classes on creative writing, the history of education, and educational theory, alongside learning communities ranging from middle schoolers to adult learners. Erika aspires to support holistic, accessible, and student-centered educational spaces in higher education.
