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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.

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