- Academic Explorations
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Advanced Topics in Physics: Special Relativity
If a woman travels to a nearby star system at close to the speed of light, she will return much younger than her twin sister, who stayed home. This is just one of the discoveries revealed by Albert ...
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Baltimore, MD
- Academic Explorations
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Anatomy and Physiology
One look at classic anatomical sketches such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, created from the artist’s meticulous observations of dissected cadavers, can inspire a deep interest in the body and ...
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Collegeville, PA
- Intensive Studies
- Science and Engineering
- Advanced CTY-Level
Astrophysics
When the sun runs out of fuel, will it explode in a giant supernova or fade into a white dwarf? Does every galaxy revolve around a supermassive black hole? Will the universe keep expanding or ...
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Lancaster, PA
- Young Students Day
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Be a Scientist!
What can astronomers learn from black holes? How do engineers decide on the best bridge designs? How do marine biologists know that dolphins are smart? Learn how scientists answer big questions and ...
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New York, NY
- Young Students Day
- Language Arts
- CTY-Level
Behind the Mask: Superheroes Revealed
BAM! POW! ZAP! Everyone knows Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, but superheroes can come in many shapes and sizes. Must a superhero fight crime? Is Elsa from Frozen a superhero—and what ...
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Baltimore, MD
- Academic Explorations
- History and Social Science
- CTY-Level
Beyond the Binary: A Cultural History of Gender
From birth, we are exposed to cultural messages about gender: we are wrapped in blue or pink blankets; given action figures or dolls; exposed to roughhousing or playacting. These approaches to gender ...
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Baltimore, MD
- Young Students Residential
- History and Social Science
- CTY-Level
Big Questions
What is justice? What is beauty? What is the right thing to do? What is real? How can I be sure of what I know? This philosophy class will cultivate and refine your critical thinking skills by asking ...
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Collegeville, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Academic Explorations
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Chemistry in Society
From artificial sweeteners in diet soft drinks to batteries in electric cars, chemistry is integral to our everyday lives. This course investigates chemistry as a means to solving real-world problems ...
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Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Young Students Day
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Cloudy with a Chance of a Science
Would a boat made of bread and peanut butter actually float? Could one tree be recycled into sweaters and bicycle seat covers? Could a pancake as big as a city block flatten a school? Children’s books ...
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Baltimore, MD
New York, NY
- Intensive Studies
- History and Social Science
- Advanced CTY-Level
Cognitive Psychology
While you read this sentence, your eyes alone are transmitting approximately 10 million pieces of data per second to your brain. Nevertheless, your attention remains focused on these words, you ...
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Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
- Academic Explorations
- Language Arts
- CTY-Level
Crafting the Essay
This immersive and collaborative course will introduce you to great essayists including Annie Dillard, Charles Simic, and Richard Rodriguez, and help you find your own distinctive narrative voice. You ...
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Bristol, RI
Collegeville, PA
Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
- Intensive Studies
- Mathematics
- Advanced CTY-Level
Cryptology
Cryptology is the study of the codes and ciphers used to create secret writing. This math course explores many early techniques in cryptology, such as cipher wheels, the Caesar shift, polyalphabetic ...
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Bristol, RI
Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Young Students Residential
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Crystals and Polymers
Why do some plastic containers melt in the microwave while others don’t? What makes Silly Putty stretchy? How are packing peanuts made? Chemicals are key to answering these questions, and in this ...
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Collegeville, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Young Students Residential
- Mathematics
- CTY-Level
Data and Chance
Your new friend at CTY teaches you a dice game. If you roll a 4, you win and the game ends. If your friend rolls a 5, they win and the game ends. You take turns rolling until one person wins. If you ...
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Baltimore, MD
- Intensive Studies
- Computer Science and Technology
- Advanced CTY-Level
Data Structures and Algorithms
We know that computers are great problem solvers, but there is human work that must be done before computers can work their magic: first, it is necessary to formalize the problem within a mathematical ...
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Bristol, RI
Lancaster, PA
- Intensive Studies
- Science and Engineering
- Advanced CTY-Level
Electrical Engineering
The first transistor, created at Bell Laboratories in 1947, was about 4 centimeters in size. Today, millions of transistors fit on a single computer processor chip—about the size of a postage stamp ...
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Collegeville, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Academic Explorations
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Epidemiology
From Covid-19 to HIV to malaria, infectious diseases remain one of the world’s leading causes of death. How do scientists compile and use statistics to combat outbreaks? In this course, you and your ...
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Baltimore, MD
- Young Students Residential
- Science and Engineering
- CTY-Level
Examining the Evidence
How can an abandoned car, devoid of license plates, help detectives solve a jewel heist? How can a single strand of hair keep a man from going to jail for murder? In this course, you will uncover the ...
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Baltimore, MD
Bristol, RI
Collegeville, PA
Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY
- Intensive Studies
- Science and Engineering
- Advanced CTY-Level
Fast-Paced High School Biology
This course covers material ordinarily included in a year-long introductory course in high school biology, typically a prerequisite for AP® or IB Biology. You’ll begin with the smallest unit, the atom ...
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Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Intensive Studies
- Science and Engineering
- Advanced CTY-Level
Fast-Paced High School Chemistry
This course covers material normally included in a year-long introductory course in high school chemistry, which is usually a prerequisite for AP® or IB Chemistry. It explores physical and chemical ...
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Bristol, RI
Los Angeles, CA
- Intensive Studies
- Science and Engineering
- Advanced CTY-Level
Fast-Paced High School Physics
This course covers material typically included in a year-long, algebra-based introductory course in high school physics, a usual prerequisite for advanced physics courses like AP® Physics 1, or IB ...
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Lancaster, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Academic Explorations
- Language Arts
- CTY-Level
Fiction and Poetry
Saul Bellow said, "A writer is a reader moved to emulation.” This course draws inspiration from the published works, journals, and drafts of writers such as Alice Munro, John Updike, Rita Dove, and Li ...
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Lancaster, PA
Santa Cruz, CA
- Academic Explorations
- Computer Science and Technology
- CTY-Level
Foundations of Programming
This course explores methods of computer programming—the algorithmic aspects of computer science and the theoretical constructs common to all high-level programming languages. You and your classmates ...
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Lancaster, PA
- Academic Explorations
- History and Social Science
- CTY-Level
Foundations of Psychology
Psychology, the science of behavior and mental processes, systematically explores phenomena as diverse as phantom limbs, sleep paralysis, false memories, and the bystander effect. This course explores ...
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Bristol, RI
Collegeville, PA
Los Angeles, CA
- Intensive Studies
- Computer Science and Technology
- Advanced CTY-Level
Fundamentals of Computer Science
This course introduces students to three major areas of the computer science discipline: theory and algorithms, hardware systems, and software systems. In the theoretical component of the course, you ...
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Bristol, RI
Los Angeles, CA