Summer Programs for High School Students

Since 1970 approximately 80% of all sophomores at the University of Dallas have spent a semester studying on our campus in Rome; we are in our fourteenth year of making a similar experience available to mature high school students.

UD's Summer Programs

• are college courses
• require reading, writing, study, and test-taking
• and are guided not by the hunt for easy and immediate pleasures but by the more demanding and ultimately more rewarding challenges of thinking seriously about the questions posed by great art and literature.
• are led by our faculty and staff who themselves continue to return to these great works in order to improve their understanding of issues they have taught many times before.

These programs are designed to show students the great and lasting pleasures that accompany a good educational experience. Students excited by the prospect of studying during a visit to Europe fall into at least two categories:

• those who are capable of taking pleasure in confronting new and engaging ideas
• those who are seeking to develop this capacity.

Program Centers

Each of our programs is centered in a single location; all travel begins from and returns to this home base. This has at least three advantages:

• We do not live out of our suitcases. Students are settled at their home-away-from-home thus avoiding the tiring and time-consuming need to bounce from place to place.
• Time at home is spent on beautiful campuses with excellent facilities. Athletic fields, swimming pools, tennis courts, laundry machines, and restful gardens are not a part of the usual race from one hotel to the next.
• Our faculty and staff really know how best to take advantage of this location. It is not easy to see London and Rome well, and it is both sad and amusing to watch poorly prepared guides trying to find their way around cities they have never studied. We have sought staff who are not themselves travelers but actually live near the home base of their program and speak the local language.

For More Information:

For detailed information on one of our summer programs for high school students, or to learn about the University of Dallas, select one of the programs on the navigation bar or below. Also, ask about our study and travel programs for undergraduate students, graduate students, and adults.

Programs for High School Students

• Arete in Irving
• Shakespeare in Italy
• Latin in Rome (not available 2008)
  
• Thomas More in England (not available 2008)