Summer School

Through Summer School at UNC-Chapel Hill, degree-seeking and visiting students can enroll in more than 500 courses through Maymester and two five-week summer sessions. Apply now.

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UNC Summer School offers learning beyond traditional lecture courses

To make progress toward a degree or for personal enrichment, students can select from hundreds of Summer School courses, including many that are research-intensive, experiential and that offer opportunities for travel. UNC-Chapel Hill students use summer courses to meet general education requirements and to complete majors and minors. Depending on the courses, residency status and program, tuition for students taking summer courses can be a 25 percent or greater savings over academic-year tuition.

Courses Offered

UNC Summer School 134 E. Franklin St.Chapel Hill27514

Facts & Figures

7,000students
78%North Carolina residents
95%of Summer School students are Carolina students
500+sections of courses offered
Tuitionbelow academic-year cost

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Events
- Mar 27
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  Mar 13
  “The joy is in the going”: Bayard Wootten Photographs North Carolina and the South
  9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Wilson Library200 South RdChapel Hill27599 | Free
  Bayard Wootten was a single mother in 1904 when she borrowed a camera and started taking and selling pictures to support her family. By the end of her life, she had made more than a million images and had gained a reputation as a true pioneer. Her work is featured in this exhibition March 27 - November 4, 2018. (UPDATE: Exhibition will remain on view until March 13, 2019.)
- Feb 10
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  Mar 08
  John and June Allcott Gallery: Andrew Ellis Johnson, Somewhere Over the Border
  8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  Hanes Art Center115 S. Columbia St.Chapel HillNC27514 |
  Through image and form across a variety of media, tactics and disciplines, Johnson explores social and political issues and injustices, wrestling with boundaries between aesthetic, political and moral orders. He treats representation — not as a hermetic mimetic pictorial tradition —but as an agency to awaken and combat torpor.
- Feb 19
  Carolina Public Humanities Great Books Reading Group
  10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  Flyleaf Books752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Chapel HillNC27514 | $35
  Come join Carolina Public Humanities' faculty-led Great Books Reading Groups on select Tuesday or Wednesday mornings at Flyleaf Books
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