Category: News
Registration Begins March 16-17

Despite the unexpected extension of spring break, registration is scheduled to move forward as planned for the summer 2020 session. Seniors, graduate students and visiting students can register Monday, March 16, and all other students on Tuesday, March 17. Summer is an excellent resource for students looking to complete prerequisites … Read more
Summer School Dean Jan Yopp to Retire
January 31, 2020
Jan Johnson Yopp, Dean of the Summer School and a faculty member in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, will retire on January 31, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Robert A. Blouin announced Friday. “As a highly respected leader and much-loved colleague at Carolina, Jan has always placed students … Read more
Summer registration opens March 16 and 17

As students work out their spring—and even fall—schedules, they can look to summer registration to find courses they were closed out of or prerequisites they need to move forward in their majors. Seniors, graduate students and visiting students can register Monday, March 16, and all other students on Tuesday, March … Read more
UNC professor turns to hip-hop to expand music education, and to change the world.
August 22, 2019
By Glenn McDonald August 10, 2019 05:30 AM, Updated August 11, 2019 05:14 PM U.S. State Department and UNC create ‘community through hip hop’ UNC-Chapel Hill hosted the Carolina Hip Hop Institute in June, an 11-day summer program dedicated to the art of hip hop. Mark Katz designed the course … Read more
An Introduction to Sign Language
August 2, 2019
A new course on American Sign Language taught students the principles of the language and basic conversational strategies. For the first time, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered an introduction to American Sign Language course this summer. The inaugural course was taught by visiting lecturer … Read more
Lights! Camera! Action! Maymester!
June 17, 2019
Acting and directing students team up to produce films in just three weeks. It’s the second day of Maymester, Carolina’s three-week offering of some 50 Summer School courses. Students in two of them, Acting for the Camera and Directing for the Camera, occupy a studio filled with bodies pretending to … Read more
What’s hidden inside the world’s most famous museums?

What’s hidden inside the world’s most famous museums? A Maymester course on museum studies reveals the hidden artifacts and unseen decisions behind these institutions. By Emilie Poplett, University Communications, Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 UNC students tour the Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum as a part of their museum … Read more
Written in bone

This three-week Maymester course teaches students about skeletal analysis and its role in contemporary forensic cases.By Jon Gardiner, University Communications, Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 Glamar Galeas (left) and Dominique Reardon (right) work with teaching assistant, Stephanie Berger during the Maymester course, Written in Bone: Exploring the science of death investigation. … Read more
Hip Hop Institute Breaks New Ground This Summer

Photo Credit: Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill On Friday afternoons, Hill Hall, one of three buildings that the Music Department occupies, becomes electric. Behind the doors of Room 109, the sound of pounding bass lines can be heard. But there is no live instrumentation. There’s no band rehearsal scheduled. Songs from the … Read more
Summer registration opens March 18

UNC-Chapel Hill and visiting students can begin registering for summer courses effective March 18. Almost 600 sections of courses will offer students options to meet General Education requirements, satisfy major and minor requirements, complete science courses and requisite labs, or take a course they might have been closed out of … Read more
Summer School rolls out new web site

Summer School has a new web site that links students directly to the information that they need for the type of student they would be for summer registration: UNC-Chapel Hill, visiting, high school, or incoming first-year or transfer students. Each student type landing page gives the specific information for applying, … Read more