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Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut offers Trinity-in-San Francisco, a semester-long, interdisciplinary program, which employs the wealth of resources in the San Francisco Bay Area to investigate the American urban experience. San Francisco has many identities: "golden gate", city of arrival for ethnically diverse communities, gateway to the Pacific Rim, wellspring of American social movements, and center of technological and artistic innovation. Students explore dimensions of these identities while they develop discipline-specific skills in analysis, research, and writing.

Students select a forum topic from the menu of choices offered each academic year. The forum includes a prescribed course of academic study that combines traditional seminar meetings with field work and research. Students also are engaged in an internship program with an agency, organization, or firm appropriate to the student's forum. Students from all of the forums share a common core course and jointly participate in many of the field trips and the weekly excursions to cultural events. The intimate environment of the Bransten House fosters a creative blending of academic and residential life.

Courses will be taught by locally-based adjunct faculty of Trinity College. In addition, the program includes presentations by Bay Area public figures, community leaders, academics, artists and writers.

Application Process for Trinity Students

Please submit the following in hard copy form to:
Trinity-in-San Francisco
1735 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA  94109

1)  Completed application form for admission.

2)  A signed copy of the code of conduct.

3)  A statement of approximately 500 words describing overall academic and personal goals and how study at the Trinity-in-San Francisco program might further them.

Trinity students must list a faculty member from the College as a reference on the application form; it is the student's responsibility to ask the faculty member's permission to do so and to inform the faculty member that he or she may be contacted as part of the application process.

Application Process for Non-Trinity Students

Please submit the following in hard copy form to:
Trinity-in-San Francisco
1735 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA  94109

1)  Completed application form for admission.

2)  A signed copy of the code of conduct.

3)  A statement of approximately 500 words describing overall academic and personal
     goals and how study at the Trinity-in-San Francisco program might further them.

4)  The Study Abroad Adviser's Form, completed by study abroad adviser or dean.

5)  A letter of recommendation (addressed to the Director of the Trinity-in-San Francisco
     program) from one of their professors (please do not submit recommendations from
     secondary school teachers or nonacademic acquaintances.

6)  An application fee of $30, payable to Trinity College.

7)  An official transcript of undergraduate courses and grades.

DEADLINES

For Fall Term 2002:

Application Due (priority):                       March 18, 2002
Application Due (secondary):                   April 8, 2002                  
$500.00 non-refundable deposit due:       April 22, 2002                   
Full payment due:                                    August 5, 2002

For Spring Term 2003:

Application Due (priority):                       October 21, 2002
Application Due (secondary):                   November 18, 2002
$500.00 non-refundable deposit due:       November 25, 2002
Full payment due:                                    December 16, 2002

If you have any questions or inquiries, please send email to:
joshua.karter@trincoll.edu (Program Director)

tanya.clark@trincoll.edu (Assistant Director)