Live the QuestionsAN EXPERIENCE-BASED SEMESTER PROGRAM ABOUT NEW YORK CITY FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL

Youwill explore New York City as your classroom, laboratory

and playground.You will immerse yourself in neighborhoods and

cultures of the city’s five boroughs.

Youwill think critically, embrace new experiences,

work collaboratively and grow.

CITYterm is…… a community of 30 juniors and seniors and 10 faculty members. Students come from across the country and around the world, from Minneapolis to Miami, San Francisco to Seoul.

… located on the 96-acre campus of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Students live in one dormitory with access to the dining hall, library, athletic fields, art studio, music practicerooms and gym.

… an experience-based academic program focused on the complexity of New York City. Studentsstudy New York City life through a combination of seminars, city expeditions and meetings with a myriad of New Yorkers.

Urban Core

The Urban Core classes put so many ideas in yourhead that you can’t help but open your eyes andyour ears to the world in ways you might neverhave before. ZOE ZACHARY Fall 2011, Brookline High School 2012, Bard College 2016

The Urban Core curriculum is an interdisciplinary, honors level study of the history, literature and urban environments of New York City.

Urban Core courses meet three days each week in the classroom and three days in the city. The curriculum’sproject-driven focus fully engages the student in the content and the learning process. Each semester, students meet with a diverse group of of New Yorkers — authors, photographers, urban planners, Broadwayproducers and former Mayors— as part of the Urban Core’s three credit, experience-based curriculum.

You will take the lead in your exploration of the curriculum and the city. The Urban Core classes allow you the freedom to take ownership of your own learning and study the pieces of New York about which you are most passionate. Because New York and our students are constantly changing, no two semesters ever look the same.

Spend a week engaged in an interdisciplinary exploration of an iconic structure. Create a product that expresses your understanding of the BrooklynBridge using the medium of your choice.

• Explore the cultural, historical and political implications of the Brooklyn Bridge through eight diverse seminars

• Discover the intricacies of the bridge during multiple CITYtrips• Design your understanding of the Brooklyn Bridge for CITYterm's Exhibition Night

• View the work of others during Exhibition Night to deepen your understanding

Urban Core Brooklyn Bridge

When walking along theBrooklyn Bridge, I thought it would be hard to capture everything I saw and felt in one cohesive project. But when I got started, it was just like a chain, each linkconnected one by oneuntil it all became clear to me.

YASHODHARA SURIFall 2011, Palmer TrinitySchool 2013

Venture into Manhattan after midnight to examine your assumptionsabout life on the streets of New York.

• Read Grand Central Winter, a memoir about homelessness in New York City

• Engage author Lee Stringer in a dialogue about his life and work

• Participate in a Midnight Run to provide food, clothing and companionship to the homeless residents of New York City

• Author a written reflection that makes meaning of your experiences

A year ago, someone could have asked me what I thought it meant to be homeless and I would have answered: to not have a home. After reading Grand Central Winter, I sawhomelessness through new eyes, but after the Midnight Run, my new vision became tangible. I learned first-hand that the homeless are not just blank faces hoping for some change, but that they have stories and dreams, families and friends.

LEO SCHUCHERT Fall 2010, Freeport High School 2011, Wagner College 2015

Urban Core Grand Central Winter

Analyze a neighborhood and design a public space that addresses that community’s current needs.Consider your solution in the context of long term social, economic and environmental sustainability.

• Study the factors that affect waterfront development in New York City. See your classes in action during visits to the Coney Island Boardwalk and Brooklyn Bridge Park

• Choose a New York waterfront and become an expert on the site, the neighborhood and the environmental concerns

• Synthesize your ideas and your experiences by drafting a new plan for a sustainable public space

• Present your plan to a team of New York City architects and hear their feedback

Urban Core Sustainable Waterfront

We presented the idea to create an eco-friendly space on the site of the Gowanus Canal that included greenhouse space for people to have individual farm plots. This appealed to the residents of Brooklyn and their desires forfresh but affordable food.

CAROLINE HARIRI Spring 2012, Branson School 2013

AcademicOfferingsOne of my favorite things about the CITYterm math program was having your classmates double as your roommates. Daunting problems became fun when we were all working together.

KATIE ROE Fall 2007, Winsor School 2009, MIT 2014

You will take two courses from our broad range of math, science or foreign language offerings. These classes are small and tailored to your individual needs. The faculty works with the teacher from your sending school to assure that you are studying the same content as your peers enrolled at home.

With small class sizes, you will find that you easily engage with the CITYterm faculty, who will work with you to achieve your own goals.

If you are taking courses outside of CITYterm’s course offerings, the CITYterm Academic Dean can arrange a tutor for an independent study. Recent independent studies have included Mandarin, Hebrew, German, Latin and AP U.S. History.

Courses currently offered at CITYterm:Math: Probability & Statistics, Algebra II/Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus (AB & BC) Science: Chemistry, PhysicsFrench and Spanish: Intermediate, Advanced and AP Language

At CITYterm routines are made to be broken; each day is a newchance to create your own adventure.Between seminars and CITYtrips, you will find yourself discussing Do the Right Thing on the subway, playing basketball in the gym, eating a falafel in the Lower East Side on a Saturday night, or wandering through the Festival of San Gennaro in Little Italy.

Some of the best moments ofCITYterm were in our dorm room when we had hour-long conversations about the things wetalked about in class. CITYtermshowed me that my academic and social lives don’t have to be separated, and that so much more learning happens outside the classroom.

ELLA STOREY Spring 2012, Marin Academy 2013

When visiting Columbia and Barnard, you will read beneath thesurface of the college tour and the manicured campus. Withyour college counselor, you will structure a story linking whoyou are, what you want to study and who you want to be. Youwill make more informed college decisions because you knowyourself better. Your teachers will know you better, too. Likemost CITYterm alumni, you will likely ask a CITYterm facultymember to write a college recommendation. You will never beat a loss for college essay ideas—that moment on the BrooklynBridge will always give you goose bumps.

Beyond CITYtermTalking with Tristan about his CITYterm experiencewas like a floodgate opening up. We had the mostamazing discussions of so many things, completelyopen, upbeat. His optimism and excitement aboutthe future is incredible.

ELIZABETH HAND, CITYterm Parent, Spring 2007 and Spring 2009

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What admissions officer doesn’t appreciate a student who grasps that an education based on ‘what is possible’ is far superior to an education based on ‘what is required’? CITYterm graduates have a stronger sense of who they are both as citizens and learners—a self-awareness that college admissions officers highly prize.

PETER JENNINGS, Director of College Counseling, Concord Academy

In the last five years, the thirty colleges most attended by CITYterm alumni are:

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Are you excited about the possibilities of CITYterm? Are you ready to learn more? Check out our website at www.cityterm.org to get more in depth information and download your application.

You can also find out how to apply for financial aid. CITYterm and our partner schools are committed to providing the opportunity to attend this program regardless of economic background. If you are ready for a semester at CITYterm, we are ready to explore financial aid options with you.

Fall and Spring applications for admission and financial aid are due February 15th

I came into CITYterm expecting to learn just about New York City, but left with a whole new outlook on learning and life.

REBECCA YOUNGDAHL Spring 2010Pingry School 2011, The College of William & Mary 2015

Spend a semester in New York City:

Learn how to live the questions.

Before CITYtermI used to ask “what?”

and now I ask “why?”SAM HIGGINS Fall 2011Episcopal School of Dallas 2013