Transfer Undergraduate Students
Summer Session 2025 Transfer Student Programming
Enrolling in a summer course can be a great way to jumpstart your UChicago academic experience and to get your first taste of the distinctive academic culture of the College. You will be able to choose from a select list of courses and specialized programming, including a Humanities Core program designed for incoming transfers.
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 conversation with faculty and other students. In small discussion-based seminars, students learn and practice the art of oral argument and dialogue, as well as to read closely, think critically, and write effectively.
This two-part pilot program for summer 2025 includes 1) an intensive Humanities Core sequence (three weeks per course) and 2) a new 6-week standalone course on writing.
These courses are open to incoming transfer students only. This bundle of classes has been specially designed to support incoming transfer students as they transition into their studies at UChicago. In addition to the usual content that distinguishes the Humanities Core, the courses will include unique co-curricular programming, such as course-related trips throughout the city.
Humanities Core Courses:
August 4-August 22, 2025 and August 25-September 12 (no class September 1), to be taught in the morningsWriting Course:
August 4-September 12, 2025 (no class September 1), to be taught in the afternoons.
Costs: Please check back for program and housing costs.
If you have questions, please email us at summersession@uchicago.edu.