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

Additional Key Courses

The Economics and Computer Science departments will reserve dedicated spots in their often-oversubscribed introductory courses, already scheduled this summer for all UChicago undergrads, for incoming transfer students. These courses will help transfers to integrate into the student community, learn from peers, and launch the path to their degrees.

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

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.