Experience WashU from home! Through these online, noncredit courses, you are immersed in collegiate study through a series of interactive activities, lectures, and discussions with pre-college peers from around the world.
Registration is open for our 2025 Spring Exploration Courses! These online courses are ideal for students who are looking for the flexibility of an online experience and interested in building confidence in college-level course work. They are also a great way to supplement an academic portfolio.
Choose from three course options this spring:
- Introduction to Environmental Science: In this course, you will be introduced to the fields used in understanding both the workings of the natural world and human interactions with our environment. Topics explored will include: human population growth, energy resources, land and food resources, water resources, air pollution, global climate change, and human health and toxicology, as well as a review of ecology and species diversity.
- Personal Narrative: Do you have an interest in story telling? Ready to get started on your college essays? Through this course you will experiment with various genres of personal narrative writing, develope your ability to tell your stories and share them with others...all while gaining confidence for your college admission essays!
- Set in Stone? Monuments, Memory & Public History: The twentieth-first century has seen a radical reevaluation of public spaces worldwide. What and who is found in public spaces? Whose memory and history are on display? Whose experiences are absent or erased in these histories? This course is designed to provide you with a historical perspective of the centrality of monuments and memory to nation building and walks you through an analysis of recent actions to bring down statues/monuments.
Scholarship assistance is available. Space is limited in these courses, so we encourage you not to wait until the January 6, 2025 deadline to submit your registration.
