DCAC & EAOP offers enrollment in UC Berkeley Summer Sessions for cohort students who are rising 12th graders, the summer before senior year. In addition to being enrolled in an actual UC Berkeley course, students are placed in a special DCAC & EAOP discussion session 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 three courses available in this program are offerred through the Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Science Department, and are taught by UC Berkeley professors and attended by UC undergraduates. Students select one of three UC Berkeley Summer Sessions courses, ranking their preferences in the application process. Summer 2024, all students received their first choice class. Credit earned in a UC Berkeley Summer Sessions 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 and wellness, overcoming imposter sydnrome and networking events. Throught the summer, students are invited to multiple community events, engaging in college-knowledge workshops such as Financial Aid 101 and community builder 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.
