Summer 2025:

• Course I – American Revolutions: $1500 
• Course II – Divorcing the Devil: $1500

Students who register for SSP by April 1 will receive a 10% early registration discount. 

Full and partial scholarships are available for each course through our Summer Scholars essay contest. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity!

Instructions: submit an essay of approximately 500 words answering the prompt for your intended course. Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and in size 12 Times New Roman font. Email your submission to templeton@eastern.edu.

• American Revolutions: 

  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” -The Declaration of Independence

  Do government and laws promote happiness?

• Divorcing the Devil: 

  In Lewis’s dedication of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, he writes to his goddaughter, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” 

  How do fictional stories help us live well in the real world?

Submission Deadline: Friday, March 14