TRS Courses

TRS 201: Transfer Student Seminars

Transfer Student Seminar are open to all students during their first year at UMBC.

Note: This one or two-credit course is designed to assist in the successful transition of transfer students from their previous college or university to UMBC. It focuses on developing and understanding the skills needed and the academic expectations to achieve success at an Honors University. The material covered will complement the work that is being done in upper-level courses in the major, and it will contain academic material selected by the Department that has been identified as a barrier to the success of transfer students in that particular major.

Fall 2022

Class: 6538 | Section: 01-LEC Regular
Lecture: Mo 1 – 2:15 p.m. | Location: Sherman Hall 145
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Meeting Dates: 08/31/2022 – 12/13/2022
Instructor: Krista Wallace, Mark Berczynski

Note: This one or two-credit course is designed to assist in the successful transition of transfer students from their previous college or university to UMBC. It focuses on developing and understanding the skills needed and the academic expectations to achieve success at an Honors University. The material covered will complement the work that is being done in upper-level courses in the major, and it will contain academic material selected by the Department that has been identified as a barrier to the success of transfer students in that particular major.

Co-Requisite: Students must also enroll in CMSC202 or CMSC203 or CMSC341

Class: 6539 | Section: 03-LEC Regular
Lecture: MoWe 1 – 2:15 p.m. | Location: Janet & Walter Sondheim 112
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Meeting Dates: 08/31/2022 – 12/13/2022
Instructor: Krista Wallace, Mark Berczynski

Note: This one or two-credit course is designed to assist in the successful transition of transfer students from their previous college or university to UMBC. It focuses on developing and understanding the skills needed and the academic expectations to achieve success at an Honors University. The material covered will complement the work that is being done in upper-level courses in the major, and it will contain academic material selected by the Department that has been identified as a barrier to the success of transfer students in that particular major.

Co-Requisite: Student must also enroll in IS310 (and must have SOME programming experience to take this course)

Class: 6906 | Section: 06-LEC Regular
Lecture: Th 1 – 2:15 p.m. | Location: Shady Grove Bldg.
Instruction Mode: In Person
Meeting Dates: 08/31/2022 – 12/13/2022
Instructor: Abigail Granger

Co-Requisite: Student must also be registered in at least one discipline specific course offered at the Shady Grove campus.

Class: 6677 | Section: 11-LEC Regular
Lecture: Tu 11:30 – 12:45 p.m. | Location: Sherman Hall 015
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Meeting Dates: 08/31/2022 – 12/13/2022
Instructor: Chloe Terrell, Arjun Sharma

Note: This course will be offered in a hybrid format (both online and in person). In person dates tentatively include: 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 10/19, 10/26, 11/16, and 11/23 and will meet in Math Psychology 008.

Co-Requisite: Student must be enrolled in BIOL302 concurrently.

Class: 6966 | Section: 18-LEC Regular
Lecture: We 2 – 2:50 p.m. | Location: Janet & Walter Sondheim 112
Instruction Mode: Hybrid
Meeting Dates: 08/31/2022 – 12/13/2022
Instructor: Laila Shishineh, Alexis O’Malley

Note: This course will be offered in a hybrid format (both online and in person). In person dates tentatively include: 9/1, 9/15, 10/13, 10/27, and 11/10.

Co-Requisite: Students must be registered for one of the following co-requisite courses: MATH150, MATH151, MATH152, or MATH155 to sign up for TRS201 TRS in Math.

5/16/2022