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What is "The Undergraduate Center?" The Undergraduate Center is a program offering interesting combination "packages" of general education transfer courses arranged at convenient times. The program is designed to meet most of the general edu cation requirements for an Associate of Arts degree. |
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What Are the Advantages of "The Undergraduate Center?"
You don't have to struggle to make up a good schedule. The courses are already "packaged" into convenient times. More importantly, you are more likely to succeed if you start here. The program has had consistently higher retention rates than other similar courses, with a wide variety of students. Students report very high satisfaction with the program. You will develop high-level skills and develop close ties with faculty. It's a College within a College, offering the kind of opportunity for success that's rare on any campus. |
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How do you enroll?Just tell your advisor at registration that you want to register in "The Undergraduate Center," in one (or more) of the packages described here. |
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Where can you go after "The Undergraduate Center?"This program has a proven track record at helping students transfer to quality schools in a wide variety of majors. A sample list of schools that students from the department have successfully graduated from includes:University of Chicago Northwestern University |
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A Proviso East High School student who started at Triton in the "Undergraduate
Center" department recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Here's part
of what she said in reply to a survey about Triton.
When asked how the courses in the department stacked up against other classes at Triton, she said that the program compared to other courses "very well." She rated her overall satisfaction with Triton at "somewhat satisfied" but rated her satisfaction with this program as "very satisfied." When asked whether the program was too difficult or too easy, she said "Just hard enough." Finally, when asked if she would recommend the program only to above- average students, only undecided students, or to everyone, she said that she would recommend the program "to everyone." |
The new "Illinois Articulation Initiative" makes these courses
even more appealing for transfer; every single one of them in all of the
combinations can be used to meet the new transfer guidelines. (To make
this clearer, every course that meets the IAI guidelines below is marked
with a small "dot" graphic like this:
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What are the currently offered course "packages?" |
2. Tuesday-Thursday "Combo" of:
2. Tuesday-Thursday "Combos" of: