Business & Law Track

This innovative college-level course in partnership with iXperience is perfectly designed to help high schoolers gain real world knowledge and experience before committing to a Web Development path in college. You will get the opportunity to apply your newly gained skills to a hands-on project for a positive cause. While specific briefs vary from course to course, all of the projects are selected to perfectly complement the skills covered in class and enable students to make a real-world impact.

Do you love to create videos? Do you dream of telling stories and developing ideas that can help shape our world? Communication is critical when it comes to moments of crisis and conflict. Learn how to think and navigate your thoughts and ideas strategically in an ever-changing world. Focus on coursework that best matches your interest and helps you bring your creative vision to life. You will tackle real-life stories and learn the process from a professional in the field, talk with experts in different subject areas of communication and practice what you learn by creating and presenting a portfolio/project.

The Business & Entrepreneurship course introduces students to basic business fundamentals to provide a solid foundation. The purpose of this summer course is to provide a broad overview of key concepts in business. It is not a deep immersion into a specific aspects of business. Students gain exposure to business topics unique to entrepreneurship such as business plan development and strategy.

Students in our Hybrid program receive a truly unique, immersive experience coupling our in-person and online programs. Students will stay at our quintessential dormitories at UC Berkeley, while taking classes online from top notch staff recruited from across the globe. We will have spaces set up for students to go and attend their online class and join their classmates from around the world.

Discover how individuals, businesses, and governments make decisions about the use of scarce resources in a world of unlimited wants and needs, and what implications economic issues can cause, such as tax and inflation, interest rates and wealth, inequality and emerging markets, and energy and the environment. The Economics course will provide the structure required to understand the way our world operates, from the choices we make in our everyday lives to how businesses or governments achieve their desired objectives.

Students will break into teams with each team selecting a promising stock that the team will research throughout the course and ultimately pitch to a group of investors. Faculty will provide hands-on help to students throughout this process. Along the way; students will be introduced to core investment concepts including the characteristics of different asset classes, public vs private equity, the workings of the stock market, company financials, company valuation and portfolio design. By using an experiential learning approach, students will quickly engage in the topic, and the instructor introduces the underlying theory and concepts as students proceed with their project.

Pondering a career in hospitality management? Develop your specific skills and knowledge in the management of hospitality companies, covering two main business areas: Hotel Management and Food and Beverage Management. Live first-hand the experience of modern hospitality and design a packed fun-filled travel experience for potential clients, and engage with mentors from leading companies in the field of tourist hospitality.

Are you interested in learning how the world works, what causes war, and the conditions of peace?

This summer, immerse yourself in international affairs by learning how the world works. You will receive an introduction to the world of politics and the social-historical impact of global development by exploring topics such as foreign policy, international Law, diplomacy, human rights, and environmental issues, among others.

In this class, students will focus on the current American judicial politics involving the U.S. Supreme Court. Fewer Americans are expressing confidence in the highest court than ever before in American history. Since trust is vital to any democratic system, any loss of confidence and trust in the nation's highest court would be a crisis. Students in this course will explore why rebuilding trust is more important than the outcome of a single ruling. Students will learn about the internal politics of the legal profession, examine law school admissions and teaching methodologies while reviewing issues and challenges within the profession. They will explore how judges are selected, analyze the economic realities of dispute resolution, and the influences on judicial decisions with particular attention on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Marketing is a rewarding, exciting, and challenging field. Not only will you learn what drives a business, but you will also learn what drives you and how to promote yourself and your skills. Marketers are always in high demand as it is vital to any business. In this course, you will learn how to understand customer needs by creating effective marketing strategies. Using real world-case studies, students will also develop branding and promotion for a specific product or service for a business and launch their own marketing campaign/website.

This course is THE course for any student who is interested in starting their own online business. In this course students will learn how to create a campaign to market products in any industry of their choosing. In this marketing bootcamp, students will cover all of the core concepts of marketing. They will begin with the creative process (ideation), discuss all of the various distribution channels to market their product, create their consumer persona, determine what the Total Available Market (TAM) size is for their business, and perform the necessary targeting analytics. Their work will culminate in producing some highly personalized marketing materials using Adobe InDesign and variable data/personalization campaigns.

Political Science is a multi-faceted field at the intersection of government, politics, economics, history and ethics. Students will explore a variety of exciting questions including, ”what makes someone an effective political leader?”, “How does our existing system of government create pathways for change?” and “how can I get involved in issues I care about?” The program focuses on a bottom-up approach to political science by exploring a variety of forms of political participation for students, local and state politics, as well as the role of the federal government.

Students will participate in a mock Senate debate, where they step into the shoes of a current, sitting US senator, write a bill and bring it back to the group to debate in committee and the floor of the senate.

By using an experiential learning approach, students will quickly
engage in these topics, and the instructor introduces the underlying
theory and concepts as students tackle these issues while pushing
their political agenda.

The government today can affect all aspects of our lives. Curious to find out more about issues addressed by public policy such as public health, criminal justice, gun rights, immigration, reproductive rights, drug use, education, and disaster preparedness. Learn and discuss the system of laws, regulatory measures, courses of action, and funding priorities concerning a given topic promulgated by a governmental entity or its representatives. This course aims to create conditions for learning, opportunity and experience, which enable young people to develop knowledge, skills and competences.

Ready to take action and make a positive impact? Embrace motivation for change and learn how to create and generate a new and sustained equilibrium. Interact and gain knowledge from social entrepreneurs whilst absorbing how they are creating solutions to address societal problems.

Master courtroom processes as you defend a challenging case from start to finish. Research the evidence, craft and deliver your opening statement, prepare and cross-examine witnesses, craft your arguments, and have a strong closing statement to impress and win over the judge and jury.