Telluride Assocation Summer Seminar (TASS)

A Telluride Association Summer Program (TASS) is a free six-week educational experience for high school juniors that offers challenges and rewards rarely encountered in secondary school or even college.

Each program is designed to bring together young people from around the world who share a passion for learning. Telluride students, or TASSers, attend a seminar led by college and university scholars and participate in many other educational and social activities outside the classroom.

Students attend TASS because they want a personal and intellectual challenge. Telluride Association seeks students from all kinds of educational backgrounds who demonstrate intellectual curiosity and motivation, rather than prior knowledge of the seminar’s subject matter. TASSers participate solely for the pleasure and rewards of learning with other intelligent, highly motivated students of diverse backgrounds. The TASS offers no grades or college credit.

You may apply to one of two program areas of study:
TASS-CBS (Critical Black Studies) - offers seminars that explore topics within history, politics, literature, art, and other intellectual and cultural contributions from people of African descent.
TASS-AOS (Anti-Oppressive Studies) - considers systems of power and oppression including white supremacy, patriarchy, and classism, and considers ways to transform society.