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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 students and incoming undergraduate transfer students. If you are an incoming graduate student, please contact the graduate school at: https://gradschool.unc.edu. If you are a visiting student, please click on the “Visiting Student” 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  https://admissions.unc.edu/faq/category/summer-school/ 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, 4, or 5. 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 at https://nsfp.unc.edu/. 

 

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)

IDST 101: College Thriving

 

Other Recommended Courses for Incoming First-Year Students 

We recommend incoming first-year students take 100- or 200-level courses. In addition to the priority courses indicated above, the courses below are recommended for incoming first-year students: 

AAAD 250 African Americans in Motion Pictures

ANTH 101 General Anthropology

ANTH 120 Anthropology through Expressive Cultures

ANTH 121 Ancient Cities in the Americas

ANTH 142 Local Cultures, Global Forces

ANTH 151 Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture

GERM 102 Elementary German II

RUSS 102 Basic Russian Communication II

ECON 101 Introduction to Economics

ENEC 201 Introduction to Environment and Society

HIST 129 Modern America, 1980-2020

HIST 140 The World since 1945

HIST 159 From War to Prosperity: 20th-Century Europe (WGST 159)

ARTS 104 Drawing I

ARTS 105 Basic Photo

ARTS 213 Ceramic I

ARTH 152 History of Western Art II

ARTS 106 Video I

MUSC 145 Introduction to Jazz

MUSC 281 Popular Song in American Culture – The American Pop Star

Music 286 Music as Culture

PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy: Central Problems, Great Minds, Big Ideas

PHIL 105 How to Reason and Argue: An Introduction to Critical Thinking

PHIL 110 Philosophical Texts that Changed the World: An Introduction to Philosophy through Great Works

PHIL 140 Knowledge and Society

PHIL 165 Bioethics

POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 150 International Relations and Global Politics (PWAD 150)

PWAD 364 Post-Conflict and Peacebuilding

FREN 102 Elementary French II

PORT 102 Elementary Portuguese II

SPAN 203 Intermediate Spanish I

SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish II

SPAN 261 Advanced Spanish in Context

EMES 101 Planet Earth

EMES 101L Planet Earth Laboratory

MATH 110 Algebra

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 https://admissions.unc.edu/faq/category/summer-school/ 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.