Essential Question: How does the pursuit of gender equity produce outcomes that shape the quality of life in Scandinavia and beyond?
Curricular Focus: Gender Studies • Social Justice • Humanities
Locations: The Hun School and Scandinavia
Action — that’s what all of history’s great thinkers, artists, achievers, and innovators have in common.
They took action, stepping (sometimes literally) into the unknown.
Taking cues from this, NextTerm is a three-week, project-based, immersive semester that gives students the freedom to pursue their passions, curiosities, and interests. All students in grades nine through eleven choose from a menu of more than twenty courses, including many with a travel component.
During NextTerm, students aren't just working toward a grade (although courses are graded); students work to solve real-world problems and advance the way our society thinks about and approaches the issues of our time.
Courses are team-taught, informed by a variety of environments and real-world practitioners, and utilize resources both on and off campus. Students are afforded the time and the resources to follow the information and their budding interest wherever it takes them. The result is empowering, invigorating, and transformative.
Different than traditional travel programs that focus primarily on culture, NextTerm courses explore a specific topic or issue, in the environment most relevant to that topic.
“The opportunities students have through NextTerm are ones that don’t exist anywhere else. The program provides experiences that are meaningful and foundational for who they are, who they become, and how they see the world.”
Otis Douce, director of Equity, Inclusion, and Global Diversity
3 Weeks spent in
a NextTerm course
each year
8 States, 3 countries
our classes will
travel to in 2024
20 Courses from
which 10th
and 11th graders choose
Have you ever had two teachers who doubled as certified bee-keepers? What about dissected a beehive to see (and taste!) fresh honey combs? Or, suited up with some of New Jersey’s best apiarists to explore how the honey bee is invaluable to our biodiversity?
What role does our local government play in reversing the climate crisis? How can we build new infrastructure (or modify existing structures) to be more environmentally friendly? How can we teach future generations about climate change?
Students in NextTerm 9 traveled to Bivalve, a tiny town in southern New Jersey (population of ten), home to the state's only environmental history museum and New Jersey's official tall ship, the 1928 Schooner AJ Meerwald.
Social activist and politician, John Lewis, encouraged all people to get into “Good Trouble” by using their voice and actions to change and shape the world around them.
One Course. Three Weeks.