The CSU Summer Enrichment Map is a flexible guide to help you make the most of your summer. It offers a variety of ways to gain skills, build career competencies, and enrich your CSU experience. Summer’s also an important time to connect with family and friends, rest, and work. Summer’s shorter terms provide flexibility.
Rams use summer session to bolster learning, stay on track for graduation, and prepare for careers, graduate and professional programs, and life. The Summer Enrichment Map is a guide to truly a wealth of opportunity.
Think of the map as a menu to spark ideas. The options aren’t meant to be a checklist. Your academic advisor can help you tailor your plans and share major-specific requirements or additional opportunities.
No matter where you are in your CSU journey, you’re encouraged to explore each summer’s activities and student video stories. You may find something that fits now or later.
Enrolling in summer session is positively associated with student success and can help you stay on track or even graduate early. Summer financial aid is available for eligible students. Nonresident undergraduates pay a reduced summer rate. Timely graduation can reduce overall costs and open doors to starting graduate school or your career sooner.
Select the links above to create your CSU journey.
CSU Summer Enrichment Map
Summer before College
ENGAGE
Enrich your CSU education by including personalized summer experiences.
Take action on the New Student Checklist.
Attend Ram Orientation and apply for a Living Learning Community to ease your transition to campus.
First Year Seminar Abroad: A three-day on-campus, 10-day abroad program. Cohort meets weekly on campus into fall term.
Bridge Scholars Program: A first-year, eight-week, 6-credit residential option, primarily for first-generation students.
First Summer
EXPLORE
Complete 30 credits prior to second fall; stay on track for graduation.
Enroll in an AUCC Course or a prerequisite online or on campus.
Connect with The Hub about financing summer experiences. Seek out external scholarships.
Strengthen your GPA. Repeat Repair a course if helpful.
Consider adding a minor, concentration, or certificate.
Explore careers through campus employment or student orgs.
Earn credits to graduate early; Accelerated Program.
Second Summer
EXPERIENCE
Finish 60 credits before third fall.
Commit to a major; continue with program requirements.
Discuss goals and objectives with a faculty mentor, advisor, and career counselor.
Gain career competencies through an internship, micro-internship, or work.
Pursue experiential learning at the CSU Mountain Campus, field study, or via study abroad.
Engage in leadership, undergraduate research, or artistry. Plan to present at CURC or MURALS.
Third Summer
EXPAND
Expand skills while earning 90 credits prior to fourth fall.
Confirm degree requirements and plans with your advisor. Explore double-counting 500-level and graduate coursework.
Take on leadership roles to prepare for career, or graduate/professional program.
Intern domestically or abroad.
Conduct informational interviews with professionals and expand network.
Utilize Career Center services for post-graduation planning.
Fourth Summer
EMERGE
Complete remaining degree requirements as needed to graduate.
Consider courses for professional growth or as a graduate/professional school prerequisite.
Find Your Summer Energy
Enrichment News
Learn more about the value of summer’s flexible terms and course options, the benefits of summer experiences, and affording summer in the recent Source article: Mapping summer learning to career readiness, timely graduation.