With the goal of helping young people decide what they want to study in the future, UPF is organizing Campus Junior 2019, a programme of summer courses this year in its seventh edition. Registrations are now open for students in the 3^rd and 4^th years of compulsory secondary education, 1^st year of baccalaureate or vocational training students.

This year’s Campus Junior will feature a total of 31 academic courses in UPF’s eight academic fields: Political Sciences, Communication, Engineering, Translation, Sciences, Law, Business and Economics, and Humanities. It will also deal with issues related to social commitment and personal skills.

Registration for the 31 Campus Junior 2019 courses is now open until a week before they start or until there are no places left

The courses will be held on the University’s three campuses during the months of July and September, from Monday to Wednesday morning. UPF professors and researchers will be taking them. The methodology combines theoretical contents, for students to acquire prior knowledge, and practical and fun exercises, where they will have to apply what they have learned.

In addition, they will have the opportunity to see the campus and its facilities first hand and take advantage of the resources they offer, such as the laboratories or recording studios.

The University offers 20 free places through a scholarship programme that can already be applied for

Registration will be open until one week before the courses start, or until the limit of 25 places is reached.

UPF, through a scholarship programme, offers twenty free places so that no student with the desire and aptitude to pursue university studies is left without the opportunity to enjoy this experience due to financial reasons.  Schools and high schools can apply for them until 20 May by sending a prioritized list of a maximum of two students noting the course they wish to do at Campus Junior.

Eleven new courses, including one on Planetary Wellbeing 

This year’s Campus Junior will include eleven new courses compared to last year. Among them is “Planetary Wellbeing: How to Deal with the Global Challenges of the 21^st Century”, focusing on Planetary Wellbeing, one of UPF’s main projects. The aim of the course is to provide students with tools to address, from a critical and academic standpoint, the most relevant global issues of the 21^st century and look for solutions to them.

Another novelty is “I want to be a YouTuber to be Rich and Famous! (Really?)”. The workshop combines analysis with the production of audiovisual works for YouTube. Participants will learn the features of YouTubers’ discourse, who are the main actors involved in the platform (advertisers, content creators...) and will record their own videos for the social network.

In the field of sciences, “Genetics, Theatre and Videotapes” will enable students to understand the basic concepts of genetics and genomics through film and theatre. The goal is to reflect on the possible social consequences and ethical dilemmas that may be brought about by the extraordinary progress undergone by genetics in recent years.

“Planetary Wellbeing: How to Deal with the Global Challenges of the 21^st Century” will discuss global problems of the world today, one of the University’s main initiatives

Feminism: A Tool for Analysing Society and to Transform it” will hinge around two concerns: social inequality and the feminist perspective. The course will address these social concerns in the various fields of everyday life (the distribution of domestic work, the use of language, the media, etc.) and try to discover its origins.

In the field of engineering, the novelty is “Making music with Your Smartphone: Design and Programming of Electronic Musical Instruments for Mobile Devices”. It is aimed particularly at students interested in music creation and electronic music. The course, which is entirely practical, will allow them to create and give a live performance of a piece using instruments that they themselves have created.

Finally, they will be able to develop their personal skills in the workshop “I Like Writing:  Creative Writing Course”. They will learn to express themselves better and more effectively with the help of experts and professionals of the written word. Also, the dynamics of the world of publishing and the work process of a writer.

The other new courses are: “Politics and Communication: Arguments, Ideas and Discourses”; “Breakthrough Research in Emerging Communication Technologies: From Virtual Reality to Social Robots”;  “Building Stories with a (Digital) Footprint: Audiovisual Creation and Personal Expression”; “The Mathematics of Bitcoin”; and “Major Challenges of the Global Society. Tools for Critical Analysis”.