Sampling the ESP Catalogs
A couple hundred MIT students teach ESP classes each year, and they’re creating quite a precedent for anyone who wants ideas for their own class. HSSP classes cover all aspects of math and science, liberal arts and hobbies; and Splash classes span more categories than we can think of.
Here are a sampling of classes from Splash! 2005:
- How to Build a Thermonuclear Bomb Using Things Found Around the House
- The Reeb Foliation of the 3-sphere
- Linux Kernel Hacking
- Chocolate Truffles Laboratory
- Senegalese Sabar Drumming
…And Splash on Wheels 2006:
- Esoteric Programming Languages
- How to Save the World in Your Spare Time
- Balloon Animal Workshop
- French for Dire Situations
- Be a Mathemagician!
HSSP classes are similarly varied, but not quite as wild; remember, those are taught for 10 weeks! Here are some examples from previous years:
- Audio and Speaker-Building
- Introduction to Tissue Engineering
- Common Sense Economics
- Modern Analytical Chemistry
Delve and SATPrep are a little different! The SATPrep program includes one class which covers SAT I Math, Verbal, and Writing. Delve 2004 was a pilot program with one subject: AP Calculus AB. Here are the subjects from Delve 2005:
- Chemistry
- Calculus AB
- Physics
- Art History
- Microeconomics
- Biology
- U.S. Government and Politics
Last modified by axiak on May 21, 2007 at 05:08 a.m.