Berkeley Summer Sessions

Join us for an orientation webinar before Session C begins so you can hear updated announcements, important information regarding enrollment, Berkeley course expectations, and ways you can get involved with other students at UC Berkeley!

The presentation will be hosted by our Summer Sessions advisors who will help answer questions after a 30-minute presentation. For international students joining us from abroad, we will also present relevant information regarding your F-1 visa and maintaining your international student status.

This event is held on Zoom. A link will be shared with you 24 hours prior to the event.

Click the link in our bio to register or visit: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/ucb-summer/orientation-webinar-session-c

GWS 10 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES
Class # 12917
In person
session D
Prof. Arunima Paul
LEC TTh 10-1230
DIS Th 1-3

Introduction to questions and concepts in gender and women's studies. Critical study of the formation of gender and its intersections with other relations of power, such as sexuality, racialization, class, religion, and age. Questions will be addressed within the context of a transnational world.

Note: This course satisfies a lower division GWS major requirement.

Click the link in our bio to get started or visit https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2026-summer-gws-10-001-lec-001

Summer 2026 just got a whole lot better. ☀️💰

We’re launching a brand-new scholarship to help you expand your opportunities and fund your education. You can get up to $8,803 in tuition reimbursement for up to four Global Digital Infrastructure classes this summer!

📚 Covers up to 4 GDI classes this summer.

‼️ Taking NW MEDIA 131 right now? You’re eligible!

📝 Already taken a few classes? Just note them on your application.

The application is super short, so don't wait! ⏰

Click the link in our bio to apply today or visit: https://imasons.org/silicon-valley-chapter-gdi-scholarship-program-2026/

For extra details, check out the Berkeley Center for New Media - https://bcnm.berkeley.edu/news-research/6641/launching-the-imasons-global-digital-infrastructure-scholarship

Welcome to Summer Session B!

Whatever reason that you're here, we are happy that you are. You belong at Berkeley!

The goal of the Research in Education is to introduce students to educational research and the methods and frameworks used to examine key educational topics related to educational inequity and educational possibility. Students also will develop robust understandings of relevant theories and methods by engaging with research focused around the set of core topics. In this way, students will become ‘re-searchers’ of enduring educational issues.

To learn more, click the link in our bio or visit: https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2026-summer-educ-153-001-lec-001

ARMENI 122
Explore how language, identity, and history collide, using the Armenian global context as a guide. You'll look at dialects, language survival, and how these forces play out in your own life. No prior experience in Armenian or linguistics required!
✨ Meets International Studies OR Social & Behavioral Sciences

🇺🇦 UKRAINI 168
An eye-opening look at Ukraine’s past three decades. Explore student movements, environmental history (from Chornobyl to today), and how art and film tackle trauma and resilience.
✨ Meets Arts & Literature OR International Studies

Are you ready to explore San Francisco? Hop on BART to meet us at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco at 2 PM to pick up a scavenger hunt sheet and get ready to explore!

We'll have lots of challenges that will take you all over the city to discover the classic tourist sites as well as special local places. We'll pair you with a group of 5 new friends the day of the event. Bring a fully charged smartphone to submit your answers (only one submission needed per team). The winners will get a prize!

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must be 18 years or older to participate in this event.

The event will take place rain or shine.

Click the link in our bio to sign up or visit: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/ucb-summer/2026-san-francisco-scavenger-hunt-session-a-12w

Music has been described as the perennial migrant, following the movements and migrations of communities throughout the world. This course explores music's own migrations, probing the ebbs and flows of music across national, regional, ethnic, and other borders across Latin America. We will focus on some of today's most crucial borderlands, such as the US-Mexico or Venezuela-Colombia borders.

Additionally, the course will examine the transnational flows of styles such as salsa, tango, cumbia, reggae, reggaetón, and samba.

Throughout, we will ask what the affordances and limits of music and/in migration are.

Click the ink in our bio for more information or visit: https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2026-summer-music-139-002-lec-002

This introductory course uses psychedelics as a three-part case study to examine a) how educational institutions and broader society have adjudicated among competing ways of knowing (i.e., epistemologies, or worldviews); and b) how this process of adjudication has limited psychedelics education and risk reduction efforts that stand to equip students with critical knowledge and scientifically-based tools; and c) how comprehensive knowledge and appropriate campus-based and other tools might support the navigation of complex, real-world contexts safely, rather than assuming pure avoidance of psychedelic substances.