Immerse yourself in Berkeley's creative landscape by enrolling in a summer course. Open to everyone ― current UC Berkeley students, other UC students, visitors from other US colleges, international students, newly admitted UC Berkeley transfer students and freshmen, high school students, and the greater community ― Summer Sessions offers more than 600 courses each summer, in a wide variety of disciplines.
See below for a non-comprehensive list of featured courses in the arts and design across campus, and learn more about Berkeley Summer Sessions at summer.berkeley.edu.
Session A: May 24 - July 2
ART 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking
ART 21: Digital Photography: Foundations
ART 26: Moving Image: Foundations
ART 118: Advanced Drawing: Remixing the Figure
ART 119: Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art
CLASSIC 10A: Introduction to Greek Civilization
CLASSIC N28: The Classic Myths
COLWRIT R4B: Reading, Composition, and Research
COLWRIT 10A: Introduction to Public Speaking, Getting Comfortable with public speaking
COLWRIT 121: Issues in Teaching English Internationally
DIGHUM 100: Theory and Method in Digital Humanities
DIGHUM 101: Practicing the Digital Humanities
EALANG R1B: Reading and Composition on topics in East Asian Humanities
ENGLISH R1B: Reading and Composition, Caribbean Poetry In and Out of English
ENGLISH 141: Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.)
FILM 25: Introduction to Digital Video Production
FILM 135: Experimental and Alternative Media Art
FILM 145: Global Media, Contemporary International Horror
GERMAN R5B: Reading and Composition
HISTART 37: Contemporary Art + Architecture from Asia, ca. 1945-present
ISF 100A: Introduction to Social Theory and Cultural Analysis
ITALIAN R5A: Reading and Composition, The "Portrait" of the Artist
MEDIAST 190: Special Topics in Media Studies, The Ad: A Global History
MUSIC 46: Fundamentals of Guitar Performance
MUSIC 158A: Sound and Music Computing with CNMAT Technologies
PHILOS 2: Individual Morality and Social Justice
PHILOS 6: Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
PHILOS 117AC: The Philosophy of Race, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
RHETOR R1A: The Craft of Writing, The Language of Influence: Can Words Change the World?
RHETOR 150: Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics, American Democracy
SEASIAN 152: Filipino Mythology
SEASIAN 162: Philippine Cuisine Narratives: Sinigang Stories
Session B: June 7 - August 13
ARCH 100C: Architectural Design III
COLWRIT R1A: Accelerated Reading and Composition
COLWRIT W200: Writing for Academic Publication
DESINV 22: Prototyping & Fabrication
DESINV 23: Creative Programming and Electronics
ISF 100E: The Globalization of Rights, Values, and Laws in the 21st Century
MUSIC 45: Beginning Piano Class 1 for Non-Music Majors
MUSIC 139: Topics in Musics of the World
UGIS C151: Leadership: Purpose, Authority, and Empowerment
Session C: June 21 - August 13
ARCH 11A: Introduction to Visual Representation and Drawing
ARCH 11B: Introduction to Design
COLWRIT R4A: Reading and Composition, Texts of the Apocalypse
COMLIT 156AC: On line: Fiction and Culture of the Americas, Sounding American: Literature, Music, Technology and Race - Online Course
ENGLISH 80K: Children's Literature
ENGLISH 134: Contemporary Literature, You Are Not an Individual: Contemporary Art and Collectivity
ENGLISH 172: Literature and Psychology
ENVDES 1: Introduction to Environmental Design
HUM 133AC / ENVDES 133AC: Hidden in Plain Sight: Public History in Public Space
MUSIC W26AC: Music in American Cultures
SCANDIN R5B: Reading and Composition, Romance, Rivalry, and Revenge in the Sagas of the Warrior Poets
SLAVIC 50: Introduction to Russian/East European/Eurasian Cultures
THEATER 118AC: Performance, Television, and Social Media
UGIS 189: Integrating Research Methods into K-12 Teaching in Mathematics and Science
Session D: July 6 - August 13
ARCH 124A: 3-D Computer Technology
ART 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking
ART 25: Graphic Novel: Foundations
BUDDSTD 190: Topics in the Study of Buddhism, Buddhism: Art of Living or Religion?
CLASSIC 10B: Introduction to Roman Civilization
COMLIT 50: Creative Writing in Comparative Literature
DESINV 190: Special Topics in Design Innovation, Design, Cybersecurity & Mobility
DIGHUM 150A: Digital Humanities and Archival Design
DIGHUM 150C: Digital Humanities and Text and Language Analysis
EALANG: Neurodiversity in Literature
ENGLISH 125D: The 20th-Century Novel
ENGLISH 180C: Comedy, Stand-up and Sit-Com
FILM 125: Documentary Forms, True Crime?
FILM 140AC: Be/longings: Cinema and the Immigrant Experience in America
HISTART 80: Introduction to Modern Art
ISF: Introduction to Technology, Society, and Culture
LS W1: Exploring the Liberal Arts
LS C12: The Berkeley Changemaker
MUSIC 139: Topics in Musics of the World, Music in Displacement
MUSIC N148: African Music Ensemble
NESTUD 158AC: Middle East: Post-Colonialism, Migration, and Diaspora
RHETOR 116: Rhetoric, Culture and Society, Introduction to Critique and Criticism
SEASIAN 10A: Introduction to the Civilization of Southeast Asia
THEATER 14: Performance Workshop
Session E: July 26 - August 13
COLWRIT 134: The Craft of Poetry
MUSIC 25: Introduction to Music Theory
SEASIAN 170: Narratives of Vietnam and Vietnamese Diaspora
Session F: July 6 - July 23
COLWRIT N131: Creative Nonfiction: Cultural Critique
COLWRIT N133: The Craft of Dramatic Writing
COLWRIT 134: The Craft of Poetry, Sound, Space, the Line: Your Creative Path