DCAC & EAOP offers enrollment in UC Berkeley Summer Sessions for cohort students who are current 11th graders, the summer before senior year. In addition to being enrolled in a UC Berkeley course, students are placed in a special DCAC & EAOP discussion section and provided with a teaching assistant who guides them through the course material during the program. Summer Sessions courses are extremely rigorous, as they are fifteen-week classes compressed into six weeks. The four courses available in this program are offerred through the Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Legal Studiesand Earth and Planetary Science Department, and are taught by UC Berkeley professors and attended by UC undergraduates. Students select one of 5 UC Berkeley Summer Sessions courses, ranking their preferences in the application process. Credit earned during this course appears on a standard UC Berkeley transcript and is transferable to many colleges and universities.
Throughout the program, students participate in a variety of academic skill building and college readiness workshops that take place on UC Berkeley campus. The Readiness Initiative for Summer Enrichment (R.I.S.E.) is a 2-day event series that takes place before the courses begin, and features workshops on college-writing skills, time management, wellness, overcoming imposter sydnrome and networking. Throughout the summer, students are invited to multiple community events, engaging in college-knowledge workshops such as Financial Aid 101 and community building activitites. These workshops and presentations are facilitated by DCAC & EAOP program staff, Regional Directors, and College Adviser Fellows, and by campus partners such as Townsend Center for the Humanitites and bridges Multicultural Recruitment and Retention Center.
