Participants also build small versions of the museum's exhibits using its machine shops. Three graduate credits from San Francisco State University are available for an additional fee. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes Intense study of a humanities topic, often in exotic locales in the United States and abroad. The federally funded NEH offers 27 programs that last four to six weeks and cover topics such as communism in America, the novels of Virginia Woolf, Britain's industrial revolution, and Mexican-American relations. The small seminars study a selected humanities text and explore ways to teach it.
Institutes are generally larger groups that hear lectures from visiting scholars on broader topics.
Outward Bound Educators Courses Outdoor adventures customized for teachers and built on the premise that everyone learns best by doing. Trek through back-country mountains, shoot down raging rivers, or sail the Atlantic. Courses are offered in June, July, and August. Graduate credit is available from at least two of the programs. The chance to gather primary-source material from the nation's premier storehouse of history.