Open University registration for fall 2025 starts August 11. Find your classes now on the SFSU class schedule.
Open University allows you to take space-available SFSU undergraduate and graduate classes without formal admission to the University. You can apply up to 24 undergraduate units toward a bachelor’s degree or six graduate units toward a master’s degree at SFSU.
Open University registration for summer 2025 starts April 23. Find your classes now on the SFSU class schedule.
Open University allows you to take space-available SFSU undergraduate and graduate classes without formal admission to the University. You can apply up to 24 undergraduate units toward a bachelor’s degree or six graduate units toward a master’s degree at SFSU.
The summer class schedule is now up. Find professional development classes to help you advance in your career or get your start.
Registration starts April 23. Save the date! Classes begin throughout the semester, June 2 - August 8.
Interested in Open University? Find out how to take space-available undergraduate or graduate classes at SF State without formal admission.
We offer short summer courses for academic credit at the SFSU Sierra Nevada Field Campus in the Tahoe National Forest. Sign up for our Astronomy class this summer, where you can stay in a tent and study celestial objects with a space scientist under the night sky. If you are a beginning amateur astronomer who is having difficulty finding anything but the moon and brighter planets to observe, this course will help you better explore the sky. Educators may use this course to maintain their science accreditation.
Dates: July 20 - July 25, 2025
Instructor: Martin Sirk, UC Berkeley Space Science Laboratory
This field-based laboratory course provides an opportunity for students to understand our place in the universe. Using the naked eye, binoculars and large telescopes, we will explore celestial objects including the solar system, the stars, the Milky Way and other galaxies. Set within a beautiful national forest in the mountains far from bright city lights, the Field Campus area has the dark sky ideal for observing deep-sky objects and meteors. Throughout the course we will stress hands-on use of telescopes and their accessories. Students will learn how to use star charts and atlases and the setting circles of an equatorial mounting to locate faint celestial objects.
Find out how to register.
For more information about the course and instructor, see course details. Discover other classes on the class schedule.
Study Biology in the Tahoe National Forest this summer at SFSU’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus. Registration is now open for accredited summer 2025 courses, starting in June and July.
Find out how you can study Biology in the beauty of nature with summer Biology classes at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus.
Open University registration for summer 2024 starts April 17. Find your classes now on the SF State class schedule.
Open University allows you to take space-available SF State undergraduate and graduate classes without formal admission to the University. You can apply up to 24 undergraduate units toward a bachelor’s degree or six graduate units toward a master’s degree at SF State.
Study Biology in the Tahoe National Forest this summer at SF State’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus. Registration is now open for accredited summer 2024 courses, starting in June and July.
Find out how you can study Biology in the beauty of nature with summer Biology classes at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus.