<p>I'm a current student at UChicago. I'm interested in taking summer classes at another university (courses here are pretty expensive and I'm not sure if they'll be offering what I want). The problem with this is that the Spring term, I believe, ends around June 10th and most summer programs start around June 1st. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of some programs that start after June 10th? I'm looking to take a year's worth of courses, so I need those two sessions.</p>
<p>A very famous one is Harvard’ summer school: [Harvard</a> Summer School 2011](<a href=“http://www.summer.harvard.edu/]Harvard”>http://www.summer.harvard.edu/)</p>
<p>it starts June 27th. However, it might be more expensive than UChicago.</p>
<p>The Harvard summer program would actually be significantly cheaper than at UChicago. Definitely something to look into. Thanks.</p>
<p>HSS is a good deal for the price, particularly given the cost charged for housing on the Yard. </p>
<p>Just bear in mind that many of the classes are not taught by actual Harvard professors, but rather university affiliated researchers, those from other area schools like Boston University or U Mass, or former Harvard PhD’s who like to summer in town. Stanford’s SS also coincides well with the end of the Chicago term. </p>
<p>However, for any school make absolutely certain the course will be approved for transfer in advance. Specifically, get damming paper evidence with signatures from the relevant department head, not your college advisor. I took an art history for non-majors course at Northwestern the summer after my first year (told it would be no issue) and later had to fight tooth and nail to get it pushed through for art / music / drama credit (over the opposition of some humanities prof responsible for handling all carricular exceptions). Had it not been make or break for graduation when he reviewed it (coupled to a nasty email from my donor parents), I am almost certain I would have been told to take something else on campus. This was despite the fact that the course was perfectly sound academically. </p>
<p>Core courses in your major are often the hard to get approved as well. For example, organic chemistry and biochem can never be taken at another school (unless you are a transfer), likewise for courses in the intermediate economics sequence. Lastly, hum, sosc, and civ are sacrosant. I know someone who was told the western classics tutorials they took at Oxford while studying abroad could not count in lieu of the Chicago equivalent.</p>
<p>Well, no one really has any meaningful equivalent to the Hum and Sosc courses. They are very idiosyncratic, not at all like a western classics tutorial. I wouldn’t give credit for those, either. Civ – not so certain what’s so special about that. </p>
<p>Organic chemistry – I was under the impression that it was quite common to take it elsewhere during the summer. At least for pre-meds. Maybe not if they are Bio or Chem majors?</p>
<p>According to the transfer credit page - “Chemistry majors cannot receive transfer credit for general or organic chemistry although they can take an accreditation test which confers credit”.</p>