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)
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 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
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 159 From War to Prosperity: 20th-Century Europe (WGST 159)
ARTH 152 History of Western Art II
MUSC 281 Popular Song in American Culture – The American Pop Star
PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy: Central Problems, Great Minds, Big Ideas
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 204 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 261 Advanced Spanish in Context
EMES 101L Planet Earth Laboratory
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.