The program is offered about seven weekends a year by The College of Saint Rose on the Silver Bay YMCA of the Adirondacks campus on Lake George, in Silver Bay, NY. The courses are sponsored by The College of Saint Rose, which is in Albany NY, 80 miles south of Silver Bay. Each weekend plus required papers and projects are worth the equivalent of three credit hours of class work. During your visit to America, you are required to take the equivalent of six credit hours of class work per year.
FACULTY
Various qualified and enthusiastic professionals present the class sessions. There is usually a minimum of ten faculty each weekend and usually sixteen or more. We generally also include, as co-instructors, assistants and general participants, college students and recent graduates from both the Silver Bay campus and The College of Saint Rose campus. Small sessions are usually in groups of about 20-30. All instructors are volunteers. For more information on the instructors, click here.
CONTACT WITH AMERICAN STUDENTS
The Silver Bay campus uses both American and International College students and interns to staff their facilities. The College generally has several current and recent American college students join the weekends. One goal is to encourage communications between the American and International students. We also encourage the attending au pairs and students to communicate with each other after the course and visit each other in the various historic cities in our country.
FORMAL AND INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
Au pairs have reported that they especially like the opportunity of having current American college students and recent graduates participating in informal discussions, the social events and formal classroom discussions. Most report staying in communication with other au pairs they have met at the course.
STATEMENT OF GOOD FAITH
Silver Bay, The College of Saint Rose, the program director and the faculty involved with the classes are participating in good faith and reserve the right to change or cancel any or all aspects of the classes as circumstances may require, including low enrollment. In over 16 years we have proudly never cancelled a weekend.
