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  <Title>First-Year Experience for Transfer Students</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Transfer Student Seminars (TRS) are one or two-credit courses 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 materials 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. <br><br>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/oue">www.umbc.edu/oue</a> or contact Jarrett Kealey in the Office of Undergraduate Education at <a href="mailto:jkealey@umbc.edu">jkealey@umbc.edu</a> or (410) 455-1185.<br></div>
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  <PostedAt>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:03:35 -0500</PostedAt>
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