Summer 2024 Courses

All classes are on campus. June 10 through August 2

SPAN 102 – Elementary Spanish II
1 section. MWF 10:00-11:40 & 12:00-1:40
4 hours. Meets 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24. Extensive computer use required. Field work required. Class is taught in Spanish, at a level appropriate for the course; the main purpose is communication. Course includes: regular in-classroom interactions, substantial reading and listening for homework, regular class presentations, and one exploratory visit to a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. One credit hour takes place online, plus homework. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101; or appropriate score on the department placement test. Classes are on campus.

SPAN 103 – Intermediate Spanish I
2 sections. MWF 8:00-9:40, 10:00-11:40 & MWF 12:00-1:40
4 hours. Meets 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24. Extensive computer use required. Field work required. Class is taught in Spanish, at a level appropriate for the course; the main purpose is communication. Course includes: regular in-classroom interactions, substantial reading and listening for homework, regular class presentations, and one exploratory visit to a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. One credit hour takes place online, plus homework. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 102; or appropriate score on the department placement test. Classes are on campus.

SPAN 104 – Intermediate Spanish II
3 sections. MWF 10:00-11:40, MWF 12:00-1:40, & 6:00-7:40
4 hours. Meets 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24. Extensive computer use required. Field work required. Class is taught in Spanish, at a level appropriate for the course; the main purpose is communication. Course includes: six 30-minute face-to-face interactions with native speakers of Spanish from Latin America and Spain via TalkAbroad; regular in-classroom interactions, substantial reading and listening for homework; regular class presentations; and one exploratory visit to a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. One credit hour takes place online, plus homework. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 103; or appropriate score on the department placement test. Classes are on campus.

SPAN 114 – Spanish for Heritage Speakers II
1 section. MWF 10:00-11:40
4 hours. Meets 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24. Extensive computer use required. This course builds on existing knowledge of Spanish through the lens of critical language awareness. Critical language awareness explores how language is linked to social meaning and power relations in order to promote students’ agency to make their own choices about language use. Content focuses on the Latino experience in the U.S.

All classes are on online at specific times. May 13 through July 5

ARAB 115 – Intensive Elementary Arabic
MTRF 10:00-1:40
Dr. Mariam Babiker
8 hours.
Meets 13-May-24 – 05-Jul-24.
Extensive computer use required. For students who have not studied Arabic. This course is the equivalent of ARAB 101 and 102 and provides an intensive introduction to Modern Standard Arabic with emphasis on speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
No credit given if the student has credit in ARAB 101 or ARAB 102.
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POL 101 – Elementary Polish I
MWF 5:30-7:10
Dr. Izolda Wolski-Moskoff
4 hours.
Meets 13-May-24 – 05-Jul-24.
Extensive computer use required. This course is for beginners only. Introduction to basic grammar and vocabulary and exploration of the vibrant culture of Poland.
If you know any Polish, you must take the Polish placement test.
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All classes are on online asynchronous courses.
There are two term options: May 13 through July 5 OR June 10 through August 2.

GER 217 – Introduction to German Film
4 hours.
Meets 13-May-24 – 05-Jul-24 OR 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24.
This course provides an overview of one of the most influential national cinemas in the world: beginning with the celebrated films of Weimar Germany (1919-1933) and including films made under the Nazis (1933-45), post-war popular cinema, films of the critically acclaimed New German Cinema of the 1970s, cinema depicting life in socialist East Germany, historical dramas, and art house and international favorites of the contemporary period.
Taught in English. All films have English subtitles. No knowledge of German required.
Creative Arts; World Cultures
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ITAL / MOVI 280 – Italian and Italian American Cinema
3 hours.
Meets 13-May-24 – 05-Jul-24 OR 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24.
This course examines the political, economic and social evolution of contemporary Italy as represented in the visual culture of Italian cinema.
Taught in English. All films have English subtitles. No knowledge of Italian required.
Creative Arts; World Cultures
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RUSS 140 – Understanding the Body: Health, Gender, and Disability in Russian Culture
3 hours.
Meets 10-Jun-24 – 02-Aug-24 (2 sections).
Through the prism of Russian literature and art, the course explores the various ways in which the human body is socially constructed and imbued with political and aesthetic significance. In particular, the course examines the body as the site of competing desires and interpretations, at the intersection of medical, scientific, and aesthetic discourses. To what extent do medicine, science, politics, and art influence, inform, or clash with each other in their approaches to physicality? The course will discuss such topics as labor efficiency and fatigue, production and reproduction, health and illness, biopolitics and bioethics, and finally, the concepts and experiences of ability, gender, class, and race.
Taught in English. No knowledge of Russian required.
Creative Arts; World Cultures
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