Dietrich College Offers Summer Programs at Carnegie Mellon
During the summer months on 好色先生TV鈥檚 campus, high school and undergraduate students from around the country attended a variety of programs offered by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Here are highlights from several of them.
Department of English
Writing & Culture Pre-College Program
Carnegie Mellon鈥檚 Pre-College Programs mirror the undergraduate experience, giving rising juniors and seniors in high school the opportunity to explore their interests and passions while receiving instruction from CMU faculty and staff.
Students are provided with a holistic and robust experience that includes academic and personal development both inside and outside of the classroom. Students explore writing, film and culture through traditional, historical and contemporary lenses on CMU鈥檚 campus and throughout Pittsburgh. Over the four-week program, students produce a body of work anchored in digital poetics and short-form writing, film development and production, and preparatory materials setting a strong foundation in the humanities.
鈥淭he pre-college program gives students a chance to get a taste of the undergraduate experience in a fun, friendly environment which聽encourages them to stretch their intellectual and creative muscles and to try things they haven鈥檛 tried before,鈥� said Jeff Hinkelman, program lead. 鈥淭he curriculum is focused on how stories change as they move from one medium to another and it鈥檚 exciting for both the faculty and the students to watch narratives evolve from written to filmed form.鈥�
By participating in this program, students learn to think critically, express thoughts creatively and communicate effectively for college and beyond. They build a diverse body of work, moving through a series of written and visual formats and culminating in a short film. In the course of developing their stories, students explore the continuum of both written and visual communication.聽
Learn more about the Department of English鈥檚 Pre-College Program
Students in the Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology gather with instructors in front of Baker Hall.
Department of Philosophy
Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology
Every year, CMU鈥檚聽Department of Philosophy聽hosts it Summer School in聽Logic聽and聽Formal Epistemology聽for promising undergraduates in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, economics and other sciences. During this three-week, intensive program, approximately 25 students are introduced to cross-disciplinary fields of research聽at an early stage in their career, forging lasting links between these disciplines along with friendships and professional contacts. Topics change from year to year, with daily sessions taught by CMU philosophy faculty members and guest lectures sometimes offered by other professionals, graduate students and even summer school alumni.
Logic and statistics emerged, historically, from the combined聽philosophical聽and聽scientific聽inquiry into the nature of mathematical and scientific inference; the modern conceptions of psychology, linguistics and computer science are the results of sustained reflection on the nature of mind, language, and computation. In today's climate of disciplinary specialization, however,聽foundational reflection聽is becoming increasingly rare. As a result, developments in the sciences are often conceptually ill-founded, and philosophical debates often lack scientific substance and rigor.聽
Learn more about the Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology
Students present research posters at the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Camp.
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistics & Data Science Camp for High School Students
The world is awash in data 鈥� images, websites, books, TikTok videos and more 鈥� that contain important information about the world around us, information that statisticians and data scientists want to extract, analyze and interpret.聽
The Statistics & Data Science Camp for High School Students is a free, one-week summer camp that introduces high school students to the world of statistics and data science, informs them about all of the opportunities for careers in these fields and tells them how to best prepare for such careers. Students also take a field trip to the offices of a Pittsburgh-based company that uses data science every day.
Each day of the program combines presentations about the basics of statistics and data science with hands-on demonstrations and computer labs in which students learn the basics of R. By the end of the camp, participants will know what statistics and data science are all about and will know if they want to pursue these fields in the future.聽
Learn more about the Statistics & Data Science Summer Camp for High School Students
Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Camp
The Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Camp (CMSACamp) is a two-month summer undergraduate research experience hosted by the Department of Statistics & Data Science. By the end of the camp, participants know what statistics and data science are all about, which will help them make informed decisions about their future. Participants attend daily lectures covering foundational to advanced topics across statistics, data science, and machine learning; engage with guest speakers that include sports analytics professionals and academic researchers; participate in professional skills training including resume writing, interview preparation, and presentation making. 聽Students learn more about graduate school opportunities in the department and develop multiple research projects including a capstone project with an external partner (e.g., Pittsburgh Pirates). CMSACamp participants are invited back to campus in the fall to give an invited talk at the annual Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference.