Summer Session

Summer Sessions at Pratt

Pratt offers two summer sessions for Pratt students and students from other colleges who wish to take courses as a non-degree or non-matriculated student as well as a pre-college program for high school students and summer intensive non-credit courses for visiting students or adults. .  Check with your advisor to make sure credit courses will transfer to your college.

Summer Session I: May 17-June 26

Summer Session II: June 28- August 7 

Students including visiting students can review the courses listed for summer by using the "live"online course search tools. Summer will be posted after January 1.

The non-degree application form can be downloaded and mailed in or brought directly to the registrar's office.  All instructions are found on the form itself.

Costs for summer session can be found online.  Summer session classes are charged by the credit. The cost of attendance information provides the per credit costs at the bottom of the page.

Housing and Dining

Precollege Program for High School Students

Each summer, over 400 high school students from across the country and around the world immerse themselves in art, design, architecture, creative writing, and critical & visual Studies in Pratt' s intensive four-week college-level program. Pratt uniquely combines academic excellence with hands-on studio work.

The highly structured Pre-College curriculum is modeled after Pratt's B.F.A. program. The curriculum is comprised of four courses and activities. Students have an elective (2 credits), a foundation (2 credits), an art history appreciation course, a portfolio development course, a lecture series, and a cultural insights track. Students pick one of the following electives: Architecture, Art & Design Discovery (Brooklyn only), Art History, Creative Writing, Critical & Visual Studies, Fashion Design (Brooklyn only), Fine Arts/Painting & Drawing, Graphic Design, Illustration (Digital) (Brooklyn only), Illustration (traditional), Industrial Design (Brooklyn only), Interior Design (Brooklyn only), Interactive Arts (Brooklyn only), Jewelry/Metal Arts (Brooklyn only), Media Arts/ Video, Photography, Sequential Art & the Comic Book (Brooklyn only) and Sculpture.
The cultural insights track comprises weekend social and cultural activities including plays, museums, gallery and studio visits, films, etc. All parts of the curriculum are mandatory for Brooklyn resident students. The faculty includes architects, artists and designers recognized in their fields. Guest lecturers and critics may also participate in the program. Students earn 4 college credits upon completion of the program.

Pratt offers two locations for its summer Pre-College program: one in Manhattan (at 14th Street near 7th avenue) - for commuter students only - and one on Pratt's Brooklyn campus, NY, for residential students.

Study Abroad

Students from other colleges are invited to attend Pratt's study abroad programs.  Information is available online.

Copenhagen
Study with masters in their fields in a curriculum that combines challenging interdisciplinary design studio work with investigation and analysis of contemporary Danish society, politics and environment.

Fashion in Europe
Pratt's new program, "Fashion in Europe" takes you to Europe's three greatest fashion domains, London, Paris and Milan. The course is a unique one - students get a thorough overview of the fashion industry in the most important cities in Europe.

Florentine Art & Culture
Museum & Library Research & Documentation
The School of Information & Library Science (SILS) in collaboration with The School of Architecture invites applications for Pratt-SILS Summer Institute in Florence. Experience life at the intersection of art, architecture and information. Immerse yourself in Florentine culture through its museums and libraries.

London
School of Information and Library Science in collaboration with University College London, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies,announces the 2008 summer school and 2nd Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing in London, June 16- 28. The program is open to LIS graduate students and librarians nation-wide. School of Information and Library Science in collaboration with University College London, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies,announces the 2008 summer school and 2nd Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing in London, June 16- 28. The program is open to LIS graduate students and librarians nation-wide.

Artistic Traditions of the Himalayas - India  Non-credit
This program is a collaborative program between Pratt and Global Learning Across Borders (Global LAB), that will introduce students to the rich artistic heritage of the Himalayas through directed studies in India in 2010.

This program will focus on the refined traditions and craftsmanship of the trans-Himalayan region, which includes Tibet, Nepal, and India. Students will study media such as thangka (Tibetan scroll painting), metal work (both silver-smithing and lost-wax sculpture casting), stone- and/or wood-carving, and textile weaving under the tutelage of master artists of this ancient nation.

Rome
The Pratt Institute School of Architecture offers an intermediate and advanced undergraduate program for the study of architecture and culture in Rome.

Graduate Fine Arts in Rome
The Graduate Fine Arts Program in Rome is a five week program offering an inter-disciplinary curriculum that utilizes the platform of the "City as Studio." The courses are inter-related fostering collaboration, critical thinking, and a studio practice that is contextually responsive. The intention is to challenge the artist to leave the familiar and at times predictive confines of the studio and to work directly within the open environment of the city of Rome - to engage simultaneously with the Historical and the Contemporary, to question through the active encounter of a different culture one's place within the global art community, and within this context to initiate an account of one's own professional ambitions. Drawing, New Forms, and Fine Art Seminar

Venice
Art History, Materials/Techniques (including
Fresco Study), Drawing, Printmaking and Painting in Venice

Venice has been chosen as the site for Pratt's summer program in fine arts and art history because of its artistic importance, its extraordinary visual richness, its sea breezes and its serene character.