Incoming Students
Welcome to Carolina!
In the sections below, you will find information to help you start your UNC journey in the summer. Specifically, there is information for incoming first-year and undergraduate transfer students. If you are an incoming graduate student, please contact the graduate school. If you are a visiting student, please click on the “Visiting Student” tab at the top of our website.
Incoming First Year Students
Getting Started in the Summer
If you have been accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill as a first-year student for the upcoming fall semester and wish to attend Summer School, please visit the Undergraduate Admissions’ Summer School page for information on next steps and to fill out the enrollment form that allows you to change your start term to Summer. If you have any questions about this enrollment form—including questions about the status of your enrollment change request—please contact Admissions at 919-966-3621 or unchelp@admissions.unc.edu
Once you have completed this process, you will be activated for summer enrollment, and you will receive an email with the name and contact information of an academic advisor who can assist you with questions about summer courses, drop or withdrawal deadlines, or other issues related to classes. Please note that incoming first-year students can only take courses during Summer Session II.
Also, if you choose to enroll in Summer School, you’ll need to attend New Student Orientation sessions 1, 2, 3, or 4. If you are unable to attend any of these sessions, please contact New Student & Family Programs (newstudents@unc.edu) as soon as possible. For more information on New Students Orientation, visit the New Student & Family Programs website .
Priority Courses for Incoming First-Year Students
The following Courses are part of the First-year Launch sequence in UNC’s IDEAs in Action Curriculum. Therefore, multiple sections of these courses are available for incoming students to take in the summer:
ENGL 105: Rhetoric & Composition
ENGL 105i: Rhetoric & Composition (interdisciplinary)
Other Recommended Courses for Incoming First-Year Students
We recommend that incoming first-year students take 100- or 200-level courses. In addition to the priority courses indicated above, other courses that are especially appropriate for them are listed below. Please visit our Course Offerings page for additional course choices.
AAAD 250 African Americans in Motion Pictures
ANTH 145 Intro to World Prehistory
RUSS 102 Basic Russian Communication II
ECON 101 Introduction to Economics
ARTH 151 History of Western Art I
MUSC 89 Hip-Hop, Poetics, and Remixes for Higher Education
MUSC 281 Popular Song in American Culture – The American Pop Star
PHIL 105 How to Reason and Argue: An Introduction to Critical Thinking
PHIL 140 Knowledge and Society
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 150 International Relations and Global Politics (PWAD 150)
PWAD 364 Post-Conflict and Peacebuilding
PORT 102 Elementary Portuguese II
SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 261 Advanced Spanish in Context
MATH 118 Aspects of Modern Mathematics
Incoming Transfer Students
Getting Started in the Summer
If you have been accepted to UNC-Chapel Hill as a transfer student for the upcoming fall semester and wish to attend Summer School, please visit the Undergrad Admissions Summer School page for information on next steps and to fill out the enrollment form that allows you to change your start term to Summer. If you have any questions about this enrollment form—including questions about the status of your enrollment change request—please contact Admissions at 919-966-3621 or unchelp@admissions.unc.edu
Once you have completed this process, you will be activated for summer enrollment, and you will receive an email with the name and contact information of an academic advisor who can assist you with questions about summer courses, drop or withdrawal deadlines, or other issues related to classes. Please note that incoming transfer students can take courses during Maymester, Summer Session I, or Summer Session II.