General:

The University Center is a consortium of six area universities that offer various undergraduate and graduate courses to serve students in the North Houston/The Woodlands area. Sam Houston State University teaches the English graduate courses at The University Center.

Classes are held at The University Center, located on Route 242 (Needham Road), The Woodlands.

The University Center charges an additional fee of $50 per credit hour.

For more information and directions to the facility, see The University Center Web Pages.

Some Suggestions for Those Who Use The University Center:

In theory, one should be able to complete the MA degree at The University Center, especially with the recent installation of interactive television (ITV) classes. But there are a couple of qualifications: (1) Because we offer only two or three classes every semester at The University Center, as compared with the five or six offered on the main campus in Huntsville, students who take classes exclusively at The University Center should expect a little longer time to earn the degree. (2) Graduate assistants and graduate interns will still be expected to take ENG 567 and perform assistantship duties on campus.

Here are some further suggestions for negotiating the two-campus system:

1. Be flexible. Keep open the possibility of a course on campus every once in a while.
   
   
2. Be willing to travel to use resources beyond The University Center: the Newton Gresham Library and other area university libraries. Apply for a TexShare Card, which gives you library privileges in other state-supported institutions.
   
   
3. Make use of special library resources that may be available to you as a distance education student. The NGL Interlibrary Loan Service is superb.
   
   
4. Ask your University Center professors to hold office hours there as well as at the Huntsville campus, if they don’t already do so.