The Chemistry Department offers free tutoring for students enrolled in Organic Chemistry, CHEM 351 and CHEM 352.

These tutoring sessions provide guidance in working through additional practice problems and also help elaborate and/or clarify concepts from class.

Information about when and where these groups will meet will be sent to enrolled students via their UMBC e-mail the week before the session begins and will be re-iterated by the course instructors during the first week of the session.

For more information visit the Chemistry Tutorial Center.

Race & Ethnic Relations provides a platform for open and supported discussion about what the country, and often the world, is talking about now. The course focuses on current events and relevant issues, and offers a perspective that will broaden and enlighten your thinking.

Topics include major court cases (Trayvon Martin, Eric Gardener) as well as current issues, including Rachel Dolezal, (former NAACP Chapter President in Spokane, WA), the pool party incident in McKinney, TX, and the events following the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

SOCY 321, a Session II six week course begins on July 7, and fulfills a general education requirement (GEP) in the Social Sciences.

The Writing Center provides tutoring in writing to all UMBC students. You can bring in a writing assignment for any UMBC course as well as seek help with resumes, application essays (or personal statements) and letters, and personal writing.

The Writing Center offers both APPOINTMENT TUTORING AND WALK-IN TUTORING! To make an appointment, go to http://umbc.mywconline.com. Create an account using your UMBC email, and choose from a wide range of tutors and appointment times to schedule a session that fits your needs. (Note: appointments must be made at least a day in advance, but if you need a same-day appointment, you can always just walk in.)

The Writing Center's goal is to help you become an independent writer as you work with a tutor on these writing issues:

• The generation of ideas
• Thesis statements and paper unity
• Organization
• Content that is clear and adequately developed
• Introductions and conclusions
• Transition and coherence
• Sentence and paragraph structure
• Documentation
• Spelling, grammar, writing mechanics
• Other important writing issues

In a tutoring session, you have the opportunity to receive an objective view of your writing from a friendly and skilled writer. Another person's opinion is always helpful! As a result of your discussion with the tutor, troublesome writing can become stronger and strong writing can become even better.

A writing session usually lasts between 30-60 minutes, so plan to spend that amount of time. To help you experience a productive session, please do the following:

Summer 2015 Hours

Location

Courses

MATH 150, MATH 151, MATH 152, MATH 155 and MATH 251

Summer 2015 Hours

Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Location

Sondheim Hall (SOND) 109

Supplemental Instruction (SI) provides regularly scheduled study sessions outside of class. A trained student peer helps students compare notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools and practice for tests. The Learning Resources Center will coordinate SI for selected courses in the summer sessions.

Supplemental Instruction will be available for the following courses during Summer 2015:

• BIOL 302 - Molecular and General Genetics
• CHEM 123 - Introduction to General Organic and Biochemistry
• ENCH 215 - Chemical Engineering Analysis
• PHYS 121 - Introductory Physics I
• MATH 106 - Algebra and Elementary Functions (session 2 only)
• MATH 150 - Precalculus Mathematics (session 2 only)

SI leaders will make an announcement during class to organize the time and location of study sessions.

Want to stay on top of a course? Want to prepare for an exam? Or maybe you want extra help on homework? The Math Lab has it all!

Location: The first floor of the library. It is next to the Resources Information table.

There are tutors for a variety of subjects: Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Statistics. These sessions are walk-in, just make sure to sign in at the computer at the front of Math Lab / Writing Center.