The University of Chicago Summer

Transfer Undergraduate Students

Summer Session 2025 Transfer Student Programming

Enrolling in a summer course can jumpstart your UChicago academic experience and give you a first taste of the distinctive academic culture of the College. Choose from a select list of courses and specialized programming, including a Humanities Core program designed for incoming transfers. These courses will help transfer students integrate into the student community, learn from peers, and launch the path to their degrees.

Humanities Core and Writing Program

The Humanities Core is the foundation of Chicago’s Core Curriculum. By engaging with texts and artworks of great complexity and enduring significance, students grapple with philosophical, literary, and aesthetic questions and issues in deep and wide-ranging conversations with faculty and other students. In small discussion-based seminars, students learn to read closely, think critically, and write effectively and practice the art of oral argument and dialogue.

This bundle of classes is specially designed for -and only open to- incoming transfer students as they transition into their studies at UChicago. In addition to the usual content that distinguishes the Humanities Core, they include co-curricular activities, such as course-related trips throughout the city.

This two-part pilot program for summer 2025 includes an intensive Humanities Core sequence (three weeks per course) and a new 6-week standalone course on writing:

Humanities Core Courses:

These courses are taught in the morning.

Writing Course (TBA)

August 4-September 12, 2025 (no class September 1), to be taught in the afternoons.

Additional Key Courses

The Economics and Computer Science departments is reserving dedicated spots in their often-oversubscribed introductory courses for incoming transfer students. These Summer courses are open to all UChicago undergrads.

Students will have access to other courses as well.

Housing

The Humanities and Writing, Economics, and Computer Science courses are all in-person. Participating students may choose to live on-campus in a residence hall alongside their fellow incoming transfer students, with a dedicated residential staff and planned activities.

Costs

Please check back for program and housing costs.

If you have questions, please email us at summersession@uchicago.edu.

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