Summer College for High School Students

Available July Only:

At the University of Mississippi, the School of Business is about so much more than getting a job. Our program emphasizes many pathways to achieving success, with ten different majors and an exciting array of ways to customize your experience, whether through our competitive special programs or participation in our various competitions and organizations.

This track within Summer College will offer a variety of experiential learning opportunities to help you navigate your unique path to success and learn how you can plug into our community here at Ole Miss. This will include workshops with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and UM Career Center as well as visits to special locations on and off campus.

Course Options for Business

• Required. BUS 101. Business for a Better World. In 2017, the United Nations Global Compact produced a call to action to business leaders to tackle social, environmental, and social contract issues with sustainable development goals, with the conclusion that "business leaders need to strike out in new directions to embrace more sustainable and inclusive economic models." This course supports this call to action by exploring the importance of sustainability, opening restrictions to market access, and redeveloping trust between business and society.
  

Second course - choose one of the below options:

• SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology. Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. Students learn to analyze society from new viewpoints and better understand how individuals are shaped by powerful social forces. The course explores how groups create meaning through everyday interaction, how power functions in important social institutions such as the economy politics, education, and the family, how systems of inequality are maintained and resisted, and how social change occurs.
• SPCH 102: Fundamentals of Public Speaking. Fundamentals of organizing, preparing, and delivering speeches in a variety of public forums. This course will prepare students to speak comfortably before audiences, adapting message to context and developing an increased awareness of all aspects of presentation – verbal, physical, and visual.

Available July Session Only

International Students Only. Designed for students looking to improve their academic English speaking and writing abilities. Students will enroll in two Intensive English Program (IEP) courses and will be tested for course placement upon arrival. Instruction in Speaking & Listening, Reading, Writing and Grammar are given at 5 different instruction levels: Beginning, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced Plus. All courses incorporate modern technologies that assist in language learning, and students have opportunities to utilize the computer labs in the University’s Language Resource Center.

The Intensive English Program also specializes in the design and implementation of programs to meet the curricular needs of specialized groups. Customized group programs are typically short term, for either one or two summer sessions. A minimum of 10 participants is required.

Available June Only

Come see why UM undergraduates have a much higher than national average acceptance rate into health professional schools.  Students take two courses to provide a solid foundation for the pre-health professions. Learn about various healthcare career options and explore the resources for your success in preparing for acceptance into the professional school of your choice.

Experiential learning opportunities:

Participate in skills clinics such as suture and IV; have a lab experience with our synthetic cadaver used in an advanced anatomy & physiology course; tour the UM School of Nursing in Oxford; interact with representatives from various professional schools; learn about what to expect in shadowing health professionals from current UM students; have a private advising session with our Health Professions Advising Office.

Choose two courses from those listed below:

• CHEM 101: Chemical Concepts. Introduction to the basic concepts and mathematical tools needed to study and understand basic chemistry. Intended for students who have not completed high school chemistry and need additional preparation before undertaking the general chemistry course sequence, Chem 105/106/115/116. Students who have less than a 25 on the math portion of the ACT (SAT 580 or SATR 590) and plan to take chemistry and biology at UM can use a B minimum in Chem 101 for admission to the key introductory courses. 
• SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology. Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. Students learn to analyze society from new viewpoints and better understand how individuals are shaped by powerful social forces. The course explores how groups create meaning through everyday interaction, how power functions in important social institutions such as the economy politics, education, and the family, how systems of inequality are maintained and resisted, and how social change occurs.
• Mathematics is the foundation of a health professional educational pathway. Choose one of the following in consultation with our academic advisors.
• Math 115. Elementary Statistics.
• Math 121. College Algebra

Available June only

In partnership with the School of Pharmacy, rising seniors can get a glimpse of the pharmacy field inside and outside the classroom. Students will enjoy skills labs, trips to sites off campus, and opportunities to meet with career professionals.

Requirements: Minimum 3.5 GPA and 24 composite ACT (or SAT equivalent).

Experiential learning opportunities: Participate in skills labs, learn about the wide variety of pharmacy careers thru meetings with professionals, and tour unique spaces to discover what a “day in the life” is like for a pharmacist.

Take any two non-science elective courses.

Recommended:

• MATH 115: Elementary Statistics. Descriptive statistics; probability distributions; sampling distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; and linear regression.

Students taking elective courses may choose from among the below courses, subject to scheduling availability and pre-requisites.

AaS 201. African American Experience I. This course offers a general overview including focus on race, economy, institutions, and key historical periods.

AH 101. Introduction to Western Art. An introductory survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the Western world. Available June session only.

BISC 102. Introduction to Human Biology. A survey course intended for nonbiology majors, introducing basic principles and emphasizing the function of the human body, including diseases, cellular process, respiration, muscular system, reproduction, development, immunity, and inheritance.

BISC 103. Inquiry into Life Laboratory.

CHEM 101: Chemical Concepts. Introduction to the basic concepts and mathematical tools needed to study and understand basic chemistry. Intended for students who have not completed high school chemistry and need additional preparation before undertaking the general chemistry course sequence, Chem 105/106/115/116. Students who have less than a 25 on the math portion of the ACT (SAT 580 or SATR 590) and plan to take chemistry and biology at UM can use a B minimum in Chem 101 for admission to the key introductory courses. Available only in June.

CJ 100. Introduction to Criminal Justice. This course surveys philosophical and historical backgrounds, agencies, and processes of the criminal justice systems in the United States.

ENG 224: Survey of American Literature since the Civil War. This course will cover prose, poetry, and drama.

HST 131: Introduction to US History since 1877. This course introduces the major themes and events in the history of the United States from the nation’s emergence from Reconstruction to the present. One theme of the course is exploring how the nation has responded to repeated social and political confrontations, which are labeled “the challenge of the minority,” however that minority might be defined. These challenges are particularly important in our history for they mark periods of social activism wherein the very concept of what it means to be an American has been called into question.

MATH 115: This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the proper statistical techniques used to estimate population parameters. These techniques include ways of setting up a well-defined study, methods for organizing and displaying data, and how to summarize data by using descriptive statistics. In addition, students will learn the basic concepts of probability and probability distributions as well as how to create confidence intervals and complete hypothesis tests. The non- online sections meet twice weekly, with other work completed in a mathematics lab. Prerequisite: Minimum ACT mathematics score of 19 (SAT 450 or SATR 510); or ALEKS PPL score of 30; or the successful completion of DS 099, if required.

MATH 121: College Algebra In this course, students will learn how to solve types of equations such as linear, quadratic, higher-order, rational, radical, exponential, and logarithmic equations. Students will also solve linear, polynomial, and rational inequalities. Other topics include the algebra of functions (including polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions), the graphs of some of these functions, and solving systems of equations in two variables. Prerequisite: Minimum ACT mathematics score of 19 (SAT 450 or SATR 510); or ALEKS PPL score of 46; or the successful completion of DS 099, if required.

MATH 125: Basic Mathematics for Science & Engineering. (Students with a 20-24 on the ACT math subscore or SAT equivalent should take this): A unified freshman course designed especially for those students requiring a review of both algebra and trigonometry before beginning the calculus sequence.

MUS 103: Intro to Music. The study of elementary music elements and basic terminology, with an emphasis on identification of the major music styles in the Western civilization. June session only.

PHIL 103. Logic: Critical Thinking. This course is a general introduction to logic as an art of critical thinking. Students are introduced to the concepts and practice of formal and informal reasoning, deduction and induction.

POL 101: Introduction to American Politics. The primary purpose of this course is to introduce the dynamics of American national government and policies. Students will better understand our political system in several different and important ways: as a set of primary and underlying values; as a series of governing principles; as processes in which forces compete; as separate institutions with powers and limitations; and, as a framework for human behavior and interactions. In addition, this course helps students refine their analytical and expressive skills.

PSY 201: General Psychology Introduction. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of psychology, the scientific study of behavior and experience. The course may include a survey of the following topics within psychology: learning; intelligence; stress and health; individual development, motivation, emotion, motor function, sensory and neural functions, perceiving, social behavior, personality; psychological disorders; and social psychology. The course will also offer an introduction to research methods in psychology.

SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology. Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. Students learn to analyze society from new viewpoints and better understand how individuals are shaped by powerful social forces. The course explores how groups create meaning through everyday interaction, how power functions in important social institutions such as the economy politics, education, and the family, how systems of inequality are maintained and resisted, and how social change occurs.

SPCH 102: Fundamentals of Public Speaking. Fundamentals of organizing, preparing, and delivering speeches in a variety of public forums. This course will prepare students to speak comfortably before audiences, adapting message to context and developing an increased awareness of all aspects of presentation – verbal, physical, and visual.

S St 106: Introduction to Southern Documentary. This course will survey documentary practice in the American South. Students will explore the history of documentary treatments of the region from the late 1800s; the use of various documentary methods, tools, and media; and contemporary efforts to document life in the South.

S St. 107: Intro to Gender and Sexuality in the South. This course will explore the history and meanings of Southern masculinities and femininities, manhood and womanhood, that appear in popular culture, media, and historical memory. Students will critically look at the history of these images and the purposes they have served across time and in the present.