Admissions
Dual Admissions at HWC
SHIMER COLLEGE - "THE GREAT BOOKS COLLEGE OF CHICAGO":
Important Notice: Effective beginning Spring, 2009 semester and until further notice.
HWC students who have received a B or better in any HWC Great Books course may apply to enroll in one class on the Shimer College campus. Tuition will be HWC tuition of $79 per credit hour, and Shimer will waive all fees.
- Register for at least six hours at HWC
- Send or deliver HWC Transcripts to Shimer
- Complete a Shimer Application for Occasional and Special Students
- Complete a Consortium Agreement form obtained from the HWC Financial Aid Office. HWC will process all financial aid for eligible students.
- Submit one writing sample of at least 500 words to Shimer.
- The HWC transcript will show 5 hours semester credit from Shimer College.
- Contact: HWC Transfer Center Director (101) Ellen Goldberg (egoldberg1@ccc.edu).
- U-Pass eligibility requires 12 hours taken on the HWC campus.
Shimer is a private liberal arts college at 3424 S. State St on the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus in Chicago. Shimer defines Great Books as books that are foundational to our culture and so rich that readers continue to find new insights whenever they read them, whether they were written decades or millennia ago. Harold Washington College shares this view, "Great Books courses should increase your skills in reading, analytical thinking and cultural literacy. These skills are vital to your success in advanced college courses, your job, and your personal life."
Great Books by authors such as; Plato, Dante Alighieri, W.E.B. Dubois, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Albert Einstein show up on both schools’ reading lists.
At HWC, many students take Great Books versions of standard General Education classes in areas like Composition, English, Humanities and History. Students who have done well in these classes are eligible to enroll at Shimer and HWC at the same time. Harold Washington and Shimer started this program in order to encourage students interested in Great Books and conversation-based classes to transfer to Shimer to complete their bachelor’s degrees.
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY:
The Dual Admissions Partnership between Harold Washington College (HWC) and National-Louis University allows students to transfer to National-Louis University with the assurance that