Maps & Directions
Whether you’re traveling by plane, bus, train or car, here’s how you get to our campus.
Attend a Junior Visit Day
Spring Visit Day provides an introduction to Macalester for high school juniors. This program includes information sessions, sample classes, a campus tour, and more.
Have questions about Junior Visit Days or want to check on a waitlist for the event? Contact admissions@macalester.edu.
Junior Visit Day Schedule
8:15 a.m. – Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus
Check-in for your day and select your schedule.
9:00 a.m. – John B. Davis Lecture Hall
Welcome Session
9:40 a.m.
Choose from a campus tour or one of these sample classes.
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Jean-Marie Maddux (Neuroscience)
This course approaches the study of brain, mind, and behavior from systems-level and behavioral perspectives, laying the groundwork for later study of the neural substrates of motivated behaviors, learning, memory, emotion, as well as aspects of neurodevelopment and neuroplasticity.
From “Goo-Goo” to Grammar Guru: How Babies Crack the Language Code
Professor Christina Esposito (Linguistics)
Babies acquire language at a remarkable pace, understanding complex grammatical structures while just beginning to speak. Learn what the science of linguistics has to say about this amazing feat, while building foundational knowledge of the tools linguists use to understand varied languages spoken across the world.
10:50 a.m.
Choose from a campus tour one of these sample classes.
In Motion: African Americans in the US
Professor Walter Greason (History)
This course explores themes including movement/mobility/migration; work/labor; resistance to systems of oppression; gender/sexuality/culture/performance; politics/citizenship; and sites of (re)memory. As a historian and educator, Professor Greason’s work outside the classroom has included designing Wakanda for Marvel movies and writing a graphic novel on the history of hip hop.
Sounding the Starry Vault: Beethoven and Kant’s Sublime
Professor Mark Mazullo (Music)
Through guided discussion and brief piano performances, Professor Mazullo will introduce participants to Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32, the writings of Immanuel Kant, and exploration of the far reaches of the universe in this sample class sure to delight all guests, regardless of prior musical knowledge.
12:00 p.m – Kagin Commons
Lunch provided by campus food service partner Bon Appètit.
1:00 p.m.
Choose from a campus tour or the “Ask a Mac Student” panel.
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Weyerhaeuser Boardroom
Grab a snack, ask lingering questions, and chat with current students and Admissions staff.
Unable to join us for a Junior Visit Day? Individual campus visits are another way to experience Macalester.
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