Sample Pre-College Courses and Workshops

Please note: This list is not complete—and the courses below may not be open to you. Your specific options will depend on which high school you attend and on your academic qualifications.

The best way to find a suitable course, deadlines for registration, and more is to ask your school's College Now liaison or staff at your school's partner college.

College	Course
Brooklyn College	Summer Marine Ecology Institute Summer \| 1 elective high school credit \| 4 weeks Students enrolled in Brooklyn College's Summer Marine Ecology Institute spend four wet weeks taking a hands-on course focused on our city's watery environment and conducting field and/or lab research. Faculty and staff from Brooklyn College's cutting-edge Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC) teach the course and supervise research. Prerequisite: Recommendation from teacher or guidance counselor
Kingsborough Community College	The Culinary Experience Fall \| 1 elective high school credit \| 9 weeks This course, which combines social science, business, and the sciences, introduces students to the broad range of educational and career opportunities in food. The course is divided into 3 units, which provide hands-on cooking and technology experience: Cultural Foods and Nutrition: Why Do We Eat What We Eat? Look into the complex roles of food in society and food fundamentals. Culinary Arts and Management Learn basic culinary skills and develop and pitch a concept for a food-based business. Food Science Use the scientific method to develop and analyze a food product.
Lehman College	CSI in the Bronx: Forensic Science Workshop Fall, Spring \| 1 science elective credit \| 30 hours/semester This workshop offers students the opportunity to investigate the biology and chemistry connected to forensic science. Activities include: matching fingerprints, handwriting analysis, chromatography (a process used for separating mixtures), dissection, blood typing, and DNA fingerprint analysis. Students practice forensic skills while analyzing a number of "cases" such as The Abduction and Murder of Cassie Hansen or The Hitler Diaries. Students also read from criminalistic texts and interpret evidence using standard lab equipment such as scales, thermometers, and beakers.
York College	News Writing, Reporting, and Editorials Fall \| 1 elective credit in English \| 54 hours This course is designed to give students a solid introduction to hard news writing and reporting for newspapers. Students are taught the principles of responsible and balanced journalism. They learn to recognize what is newsworthy and how to write to a specific newspaper's mission, audience, and style. The course also covers the basic techniques needed to understand, research, report, outline, write, and edit a hard news story. In addition to shorter writer assignments, each student plans, reports, and writes at least two hard news stories and one editorial during the semester. Prerequisite: Recommendation from high school journalism program