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.
HUMA 11000 91 Readings in World Literature 1 (August 4-August 22)
HUMA 11000 97 Readings in World Literature 2 (August 25-September 12, no class on September 1)
HUMA 16000 91 Media Aesthetics: Image, Text, Sound 1 (August 4-August 22)
HUMA 16100 97 Media Aesthetics: Image, Text, Sound 2 (August 25-September 12, no class on September 1)
HUMA 12300 91 Human Being and Citizen 1 (August 4-August 22)
HUMA 12400 97 Human Being and Citizen 2 (August 25-September 12, no class on September 1)
HUMA 14000 91 Reading Cultures: Collection, Travel, Exchange 1 (August 4-August 22)
HUMA 14100 97 Reading Cultures: Collection, Travel, Exchange 2 (August 25-September 12, no class on September 1)
Writing Courses (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.
ECON 10000 91 Principles of Microeconomics (June 16-July 18, no classes June 19 and July 4)
ECON 10200 91 Principles of Macroeconomics (July 21-August 22)
CMSC 14100 91 Introduction to Computer Science I (June 16- August 8, no classes June 19 and July 4)
CMSC 14300 91 Systems Programming I (June 16- August 8, no classes June 19 and July 4)
CMSC 27100 91 Discrete Mathematics (June 16- August 8, no classes June 19 and July 4)
Students will have access to other courses as well.
Housing
On-campus housing is available while classes are in session (8/3-9/12), and for the interim period before Autumn Quarter begins (9/12-9/29). Through events, activities, trips and study breaks, students will receive their first orientation to life as a UChicago undergraduate. They will enjoy all the benefits and amenities of the UChicago campus, the Hyde Park neighborhood and the city of Chicago.
At the end of the program, students will be able to move into their Autumn Quarter assignments before other transfer and first-year students arrive for Orientation in late September.
Students will have a meal plan for dining in both all-you-care-to-eat residential dining commons as well as on-campus cafes.
Costs
Please check back for program and housing costs.
If you have questions, please email us at summersession@uchicago.edu.