Academics

Summer 2009 Clusters

1. Computers in Everyday Life
2. Engineering Design & Control of Kinetic Sculptures
3. Living Oceans and Global Climate Change
4. Earthquakes in Action
5. Bright Ideas: Light at Work
6. Exploring the Cosmos
7. Biological Motivations for Tensegrity Structures
8. The Molecular Biology Revolution

COSMOS students enroll in one of seven academic core content courses called "clusters" for the duration of the four- week program. There are 18-25 students per cluster who take two topical science and/or math courses and one Scientific Communication course. Each course is designed and instructed by UC San Diego faculty, lecturers, researchers and graduate students. During the four-week program, COSMOS students research and prepare a final project which is presented at the end of the COSMOS program as well as to an audience in their home communities.