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Anyone may participate in Summer Sessions. Registration in Summer Sessions neither requires nor implies admission to the University of Delaware. There are some courses which are designed for special student populations. Such courses may have enrollment restrictions or give preference to certain registrants. Students are advised to read the notes in the course listing section of this site, and to register early since courses are assigned on a first-come first-served basis subject to registration restrictions.
This booklet contains certain information which relates only to the Summer Sessions. Additional information about the University of Delaware can be found in the current editions of the University Catalog, and the Student Guide to University Policies. The University reserves the right to withdraw any course, to limit enrollment, or to change instructors, class meeting times, or locations.
A variety of non-credit programs are also available through the Division of Professional and Continuing Studies; call 831-7600 for information or visit www.pcs.udel.edu
All summer school students living in the residence hall during any part of or all of the summer sessions are required to buy a dining plan. See the information on Dining Plans below. Those upper-class UD students who wish to live on campus should submit a room and board application online at www.udel.edu/summer/hous-din.htm
Summer School housing will be in Ray Street B this year. We will have a limited number of single-room options available. Single rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. However, if you require a single room due to medical reasons or other extenuating circumstances, please send an e-mail message to ud-housing@udel.edu explaining your situation.
| Room Rates: (per person) | 5-week | 7.5-week |
| Double Room | $892 | $1339 |
| Single Room | $1146 | $1719 |
For the First Summer Session, students who have made advance applications for room and board can check into the residence hall from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 5. Students who have not applied in advance for room and board must come to Housing Assignment Services, 5 Courtney Street, to receive assignments on Monday, June 6. Students must check out of the residence hall for First Summer Session at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, for 5-week classes. For the 7 1/2 week courses, students must check out at 7 p.m. on the date of each student's last exam (July 27 or 28).
For the Second Session, students can check into the residence hall from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 10. Students must check out at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 12.
Students who reside in on-campus housing for any part of the Summer Sessions are required to purchase a meal plan for the period of their room contract. Room and board applications are available online.
Students who reside in Christiana Towers Apartments, Graduate Student and Family Housing or who live off campus may choose any of the plans offered; but that choice is optional.
Unused Point balances from the Summer Sessions may be carried semester to semester, through the following spring. All remaining Points are forfeited at the end of May.
Meal plans offered are:
Students not required to purchase a meal plan may opt to open a FLEX prepaid spending account instead of a meal or points plan. The FLEX account may be used at all dining locations as well as for a variety of campus services. FLEX balances do not expire until the account is closed.
For more information about your meal plan, you may visit our Web site at
www.udel.edu/dining
e-mail:
dining services@udel.edu
visit Dining Services, 153 Perkins Student Center, Newark, DE 19716
or phone: (302) 831-6761
5 Week All Summer
Gold Lots $51 $86
Red Lots $23 $38
The University reserves the right to remove and impound, at the owner's expense, any vehicle parked on campus without a current permit or otherwise in violation of the University parking regulations. Copies of the Campus Map and parking regulations are available at Parking Services, 147 Perkins Student Center, 831-1184, and also on the
Web.
The Math Placement Exam is administered online. New students have access to the exam from www.udel.edu/beabluehen. Problems regarding access should be directed to the Admissions Office. Continuing Education students should contact the ACCESS Center (302?831-2741) for information about taking the exam.
More information about the placement program including sample problems can be found online. Each student is allowed one hour and can access the exam only once. Once the exam is begun, students cannot start and restart the exam
two years or less than two years. . . .105
three years . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
four years or more. . . . . . . . . . .107
Students who have had at least four years of a foreign language may wish to take the exemption examination. Students who have questions about their placement, or who are seeking an exemption from the foreign language requirement should contact Crista Johnson, the FLL Placement Advisor, at 320 Jastak-Burgess Hall (831-4667).
It is the individual's responsibility to inform the DSS office of the disability and need for accommodation. Eligibility for reasonable accommodations is determined on a case-by-case basis utilizing established documentation guidelines. Anyone requesting an accommodation from the University based on a disability should contact the DSS office directly.
Please contact a DSS professional at
(302) 831-4643 (Voice)
(302) 831-4563 (TDD)
(302) 831-3261 (FAX)
or email DSSoffice@udel.edu
website:
www.udel.edu/DSS
The office is located at 240 Academy Street, Alison Hall,
Suite 119, Newark, DE 19716.
Continuing Education (CEND) students who need disability accommodations
should contact the ACCESS Center at:
(302) 831-2741 - Voice
(302) 831-6367 - TDD
(302) 831-2789 - Fax
Jane Yezdimer jyez@udel.edu
or Debbie Farris dfarris@udel.edu
Facilities include a student fitness center, employee fitness center, three multi-purpose gymnasia, an indoor rock-climbing gym, an 8-lane indoor pool, squash, racquetball and turf fields. Squash and racquetball courts may be reserved one day in advance by calling 831-8600. Students who did not have Carpenter Sports Building privileges in the Spring semester must pay an additional $15 fee if they desire to use those facilities during the summer. That optional fee can be paid at the Continuing Studies ACCESS Center (850 Library Rd, Suite 200, Newark, across from College Square Shopping Center).
A summer softball league is conducted in the evenings on Frazer Field (adjacent to Carpenter Sports Building). Students may organize a team or join an existing one by contacting the Intramural Office at 831-4267. Registration is the last week of May and the season begins by the middle of June.
The Outdoor Pool is available to Summer Session students at no charge by presenting their ID card. Others who are not currently enrolled for Summer classes can also use the outdoor pool for a daily rate of $3. Call 831-2788 for additional information.
Summer Session students may use the Rust Ice Arena during the Public Skating sessions by presenting their ID card. If not enrolled in classes, the daily rate is $7. Skate rental is $3.00 for everyone. For additional information and for Public Skating hours, call 831-2868.
The Student Employment and Internship programs provide opportunities to experience potential careers through part-time and summer jobs, volunteer work or internships. Current UD students and alumni can use Blue Hen Jobs to access the database of internships, part-time jobs, Summer jobs and full-time jobs.
Career workshops are offered regularly to develop resume writing skills, interviewing techniques and job search strategies. Special resource material and self-instructional media provide further assistance in these areas.
Because the Campus Interview Program is not active during Summer Session, students are encouraged to research organizations and prepare for later campus and off-campus interviews. All programs and services are available at the Center, which is located at 401 Academy Street.
John Perkins Student Center
The Perkins Student Center is located on Academy Street in the East Campus area and houses the University Bookstore, Center for Counseling and Student Development, New Student Orientation Office, Scrounge food court, HenZone recreation facility and Student Media. Many student organizations have offices here, from which they plan and sponsor numerous programs and activities. Quiet lounge areas, a variety of meeting rooms and the Bacchus Theatre attract visitors to the building. Music, novelties and other entertainment are regularly scheduled in the Scrounge.
E. Arthur Trabant University Center
Located on West Main Street, the Trabant University Center offers a varied program of extracurricular activities including films, meetings, lectures, concerts, bus trips and student organization offices. A large food court, copy/fax services, a bank branch and ATM's, the YOUDEE Shop with art supplies and insignia items, University of Delaware ticket office, and "Vita Nova", the Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Management student-operated restaurant, are located in the University Center. Students find the Daugherty Lounge, a beautiful area across from the Multipurpose Room, a great place to meet and/or study.
Matriculated students in summer sessions are also eligible to enroll in a Student Accident and Sickness Insurance Plan which provides medical insurance coverage for the period June 1 through August 31. Additional information can be obtained from the SHS at (302) 831-2226.
The Writing Center is located in 016 Memorial Hall. All appointments are made online by going to the center's Web site at http://www.english.udel.edu/wc. Students may also stop by the center to make appointments or call 831-1168 for online scheduling assistance. The Center is open during both Summer Sessions.
The collections of the University of Delaware Library parallel the University's academic interests and support all disciplines. Books, electronic databases, electronic journals, periodicals, microforms, government publications, maps, manuscripts, media in video and DVD format and Internet access provide a major academic resource. Library staff members provide a wide range of services, including assistance with electronic library resources, reference assistance, interlibrary loan, instructional programs and assistance to users with disabilities. The Library's AskRef Live! and AskRef Instant Messaging (IM) services provides online live reference service during many hours of the week.
Over 2,800,000 volumes of books and bound journals, more than 39,000 electronic and print journals including newspapers to which the University of Delaware Library provides access, more than 300 databases as well as more than 3,400,000 items in microforms are included in the Library collections. The Library's resources are broadly based and comprehensive, with emphasis on the social sciences, humanities, science and engineering. Special Collections of rare books and manuscripts include the Delaware Collection; the Unidel History of Chemistry Collection; manuscripts such as the papers of Paul Bowles, Emily Coleman, Ezra Pound, Tennessee Williams, and William Butler Yeats and archives including those of American Poetry and the Bird and Bull Press. Library Digital Projects including the University of Delaware Library Postcard Collection with more than 2,000 images of Delaware, Historic Maps of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region, and the American Civil War Digital Collection are accessible online at www.udel.edu/library/digital.
The University of Delaware Library is a depository for publications of the U.S. Government and for all patents issued by the U.S. Office of Patents and Trademarks.
The Morris Library, with seating for approximately 2,500 persons, provides more than 275 public access Internet workstations, more than 200 wired Internet ports and wireless Internet access in the Morris Library for laptop users. The Student Multimedia Design Center, located on the Lower Level, provides more than 70 workstations, 6 studios and 2 classrooms for creation of multimedia programs. A large Reserve Room was designed for quiet study. The Morris Library also provides group study rooms, a periodical reading room, a Special Collections area with an exhibition gallery and a reading room with a controlled environmental system for rare materials, Instructional Media carrels and a Media Viewing Room and an Assistive Technology Center with special equipment and computer access.
The Web of the University of Delaware Library, www.udel.edu/library, offers access to the Library's vast electronic resources including DELCAT, the online catalog of the University of Delaware Library.
The University of Delaware Library offers access via its Web page to WorldCat Local, the world's largest network of library-based content and services. WorldCat Local, an OCLC product, encompasses the holdings of over 10,000 libraries around the world including the University of Delaware Library.
The University of Delaware Library provides online electronic access to more than 300 databases including a large number of full-text databases with full electronic articles as well as many reference databases in all disciplines. The Library provides access to more than 39,000 electronic and print journals including newspapers to which the Library provides access. Electronic resources are accessible to University of Delaware students, faculty and staff from residence halls, offices, and buildings through the University and to University users from off-campus using a University of Delaware computing account. The Library Web page serves as a gateway research tool and provides access to electronic resources on the Web including those licensed for University of Delaware faculty, staff and students. To assist users in navigating the Web, the Library created more than 120 subject web pages called Guides in academic disciplines. Each subject Guide points to a selection of some of the best Web sites in each subject area.
The University of Delaware Library has an Institutional Repository, dspace.udel.edu, which uses open source DSpace software to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of the University of Delaware original research of faculty and staff in digital form including technical reports, working papers, conference papers, images, and more.
The University of Delaware Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, CIRLA (Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance) and PALINET, through which it is connected online to OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center).
For further information, University of Delaware Library users may call 302-831-2965. For Library hours, Library users may call 302-831-BOOK (2665), or check the Library Web www.udel.edu/library.
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Please direct questions to
Allan Fanjoy < fanjoy@udel.edu>
URL of this document:
http://www.udel.edu/summer/general-0.htm
Last modified: Thursday, 03-Mar-2011 15:13:00 EST