Summer Registration
Undergraduate Summer Courses
Are you a high school student looking for a challenge? A college student home for the summer who wants to get your prerequisite and core classes out of the way? An adult student considering a career change or looking for intellectual stimulation? There's a summer course for you at Simmons! To get started, find the course you're interested in, and then visit our registration page for details on registering.
Graduate Courses
Most of Simmons' graduate schools and programs offer summer courses. For details, search the summer course offerings. Be sure to check the non-degree options available to graduate students. If you have any questions about summer graduate courses or registration, please contact the appropriate graduate school for assistance.
Featured Program
Children's Literature Summer Institute
A hallmark of the Center for the Study of Children's Literature is the Summer Institute held every other year. The intensive long weekend program offers students an opportunity to meet with authors, illustrators, editors, and others committed to the study of children's literature.
Guest lecturers have included Newbery Medal winners Paula Fox and Lois Lowry; Caldecott Medal winners Maurice Sendak, Paul O. Zelinsky, Ed Young, Allen Say, David Wiesner and David Macaulay; British author Anne Fine; authors Jacqueline Woodson, Patricia C. McKissack, Avi, and Julius Lester; regional authors Natalie Babbitt, Nancy Garden, and Robert Cormier; poets Nancy Willard, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Paul Janeczko; illustrators Jerry Pinkney, Trina Schart Hyman and Robert Sabuda; editor Roger Sutton; and child development theorist David Elkind.
2009 Institute: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Thursday, July 23 — Sunday, July 26, 2009
Speakers scheduled to appear include: Gareth Hinds, Lenore Look, Marilyn Nelson, Martha Brooks, Kevin Henkes, Avi, Blue Balliett, JonArno Lawson, Natalie Babbitt, Ellen Levine, Kristin Cashore, Jack Gantos, and M.T. Anderson. The seminar will be lead by Roger Sutton, current editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine.
Other Information
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