BARNARD COLLEGE PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS

School Location: New York City

Program Delivery: Residential and Commuter options

Age range: 14-18

Gender: Female only

Program Dates: Summer Food Institute: July 23 - August 4

Health and Society: June 25July 14

Categories: STEM, Anthropology, Healthcare, Sustainability

Sub-Categories: Sustainable food, Medicine and Culture, Sustainable farming

Cost:

HSI Residential: $9,058 Commuter: $7,772

SFI Residential: $6,040 Commuter: $5,182

Website: precollege.barnard.edu

Barnard Pre-College Programs is committed to providing the young women who join our programs with a community to grow and learn intentionally and safely. Our programs are academically rigorous, enriching, and exploratory. They are designed to supplement student learning and encourage them to explore their interests and come away from the experience brighter, bolder, and ready to take on the world.

Highlighted Programs:

Health and Society Institute

This program examines the interplay of science, medicine, and the experience of health and illness by way of epistemological questions — “How do we know what we know?” — to appreciate not only what becomes defined and recognized as a disease, but the power relationships that produce these effects. This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared, while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. Students will be engaging with work from a range of scholars, including anthropologists, philosophers, historians, physicians, scientists, and journalists, also with an eye to how these perspectives can inform the health experience of living in New York City.

Students will also take a concurrent course on understanding the lived experiences of health and wellness through qualitative research techniques.

Sustainable Food Institute

Barnard’s 2-Week Sustainable Food and the City introduces students to the U.S food system, examining food production, distribution, consumption, and waste management through four key lenses: agriculture; health, policy and justice; food systems and climate change; and soil health. Each week, students will explore farms all across the city and New York state to learn hands-on from farmers growing our food. The program will invite experts and professionals from each unit to guide student’s learning experience. Students will take a deep dive into each of these units to imagine a food system that produces food in an ecologically mindful way while supporting our communities and the planet.