Summer at Carleton
Summer at Carleton
Every year more and more people discover that the facilities and the faculty that make Carleton College one of the nation’s finest liberal arts colleges also make it an ideal place for exciting and rewarding summer programs.
Carleton enjoys the best of two worlds, the serenity of a beautiful 950-acre campus and the nearby diversions of a major metropolitan area.
During the school year, the College’s facilities serve 1,800 undergraduates drawn from across the nation and from a number of foreign countries. In the summer, the classrooms and residence halls accommodate academic programs for groups ranging in size from 10 to 300. Courses are offered to teachers in a variety of subject areas and to high school students seeking to improve their writing, math or science skills.
Carleton has tried to preserve its architectural heritage wherever possible—by renovating rather than razing its fine old Collegiate Gothic and Victorian buildings. The result is a pleasing combination of modern facilities and buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Whether 5 or 75 years old, the classrooms and laboratories are well maintained and filled with up-to-date audiovisual and research equipment. Carleton’s library is one of the nation’s best undergraduate facilities, and the computer center on campus offers a large number of computers for student use.
There’s much more to summer at Carleton than studying, however. Recreational opportunities abound: there are 12 tennis courts; an indoor recreation center with a state-of-the-art fitness room and climbing wall; two indoor swimming pools; basketball, racquetball, squash, and handball courts; softball, soccer, and rugby fields; and a nearby 18-hole golf course.
Adjacent to the campus is Carleton’s 880-acre arboretum with 13 miles of jogging and hiking trails and numerous natural laboratories, including an oxbow lake, marshlands, the Cannon River basin, and a rejuvenated short-grass prairie. It is a fine place to ponder the lessons of the day or to enjoy a leisurely walk, as many summer visitors discover.
