Language courses offered remotely in Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian for Continuing Education students.
The Center for Language Studies is pleased to offer language courses to professionals and continuing education students. These courses carry four undergraduate credits each and are offered in a virtual online format accessible to working professionals.
Eligibility
Participants must:
hold an undergraduate degree or be 25 years of age or older
not currently enrolled in an undergraduate program
Cost
$1,600 per course.
Credit
Each course bears 4 US semester hours of undergraduate credit. Participants will receive a transcript upon completion of the course.
Two Pathways: 14-Week Evening Classes or 7-Week Courses with Undergraduates
Evening courses tailored to professional students,14 weeks
Spring Semester: January 14 - April 27, 2021
Schedule: three to four hours a week in the evenings, Central Time.
CHINESE
This course offers an introduction to Mandarin. Class sessions stress the acquisition of basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Approximately 600 traditional characters are introduced, more than 1,000 combined words and phrases, and basic grammatical structures in Mandarin.
Through aural, oral, and compositional exercises and reading selections, these courses build upon prior competencies. After a review of basic grammatical structures and characters, students add more traditional and simplified characters to sharpen reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. This course aims to transfer the knowledge students gained from the character-pattern approach at the beginning level to work with original Chinese texts at the advanced level.
PORTUGUESE
Students will actively learn how to speak, write, read, and listen to Portuguese, while developing a deep understanding of Brazilian culture. This is an exclusive, media-based course, focused on authentic materials that bring forth fundamental contexts of real-life communication.
Students will build upon their knowledge of Spanish or other romance languages to learn to speak, write, read, and listen to Portuguese in an accelerated format, while developing a deep understanding of Brazilian culture.
RUSSIAN
This course introduces students to the essentials of Russian language and culture through a variety of communicative practices aimed at developing the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students also begin to develop intercultural competency through engagement with contemporary and classic Russian texts and cultural idioms.
Speaking, reading, and writing Russian with a view to developing fluency in expression. Conducted in Russian.
This course is designed to advance students’ understanding of the culture of everyday life in Russia and thus promote the intercultural competency necessary for deep comprehension of Russian texts and for meaningful interactions with Russians in a variety of contexts. Through a close analysis of Viktoria Tokareva’sPervaya Popytka,students learn to decode messages embedded in the novella’s many textual allusions to Russian culture, history, and behavior.
Online courses with undergraduate students,7 weeks
Mod 1: Courses and Schedules, January 14 - March 5, 2021
Second-semester introduction to Mandarin. Class sessions stress the acquisition of basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Approximately 600 traditional characters are introduced, more than 1,000 combined words and phrases, and basic grammatical structures in Mandarin. Prerequisite: Chinese 100. (or consent of instructor). Schedule: MWF 8:15am-10am; Th 8:15am-9:15am, Central Time
Through aural, oral, and compositional exercises and reading selections, these courses build upon prior competencies. After a review of basic grammatical structures and characters, students add more traditional and simplified characters to sharpen reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. This course aims to transfer the knowledge students gained from the character-pattern approach at the beginning level to work with original Chinese texts at the advanced level. Prerequisite: Chinese 110. Schedule: MW 8:15-10:00am TTh 8:15-9:15am, Central Time
Continuing the combined written, aural, oral, and culture components, these third-year courses guide students through selected readings in contemporary literature and newspapers, in both traditional and simplified characters. Conducted mainly in Chinese, these courses stress vocabulary expansion in both speaking and writing. Prerequisite: Chinese 200. Schedule: MW 10:15-11:15am; TTh 9:30-11:30am, Central Time
Covers the second half of first-year Japanese. Students learn most of the basic Japanese grammar patterns and vocabulary, as well as Kanji (Chinese) characters. Instruction and training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: Japanese 100 or consent of instructor. Schedule: MWF, 12:45-2:30pm and T, 12:30-1:30pm, Central Time
Mod 2: Courses and Schedules, March 8 - April 27, 2021
A thorough review of the basic patterns of Japanese. Continue work with Kanji. Classes taught in Japanese to stress training in listening comprehension, speaking, and composition. Prerequisite: Japanese 110 or consent of instructor. Schedule: MWF 8:15am-10am; TR 8:15am-9:15am, Central Time
A consideration of the Roman interpretation of the epic genre, beginning with Ennius and focusing on Vergil and his ambiguous relationship to Augustan ideology. We may also explore selections of some of the following: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, and Statius’ Thebaid. The class draws attention to the manipulation of imagery, plot, intertext, and vocabulary in the creation of layered meaning. Prerequisite: Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies 141 or consent of instructor. Schedule: TTh 1:45pm-3:45pm + one hour of choice: M,W, or F 2:45-3:45pm, Central Time
This course is designed for students who grew up speaking Spanish at home but who have little or no formal training in the language. Its aim is to develop a formal command of the language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—-while exploring students’ cultural identities and regional variations of Spanish. Fiction and non-fiction, film, music, and other materials are used as a point of departure for discussion, reflection, and writing. Participation in Spanish-language activities and/or in the local Latino community is expected. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Schedule: MWF10:15-11:15am; TTH9:30-11:15am, Central Time
The Center for Language Studies is pleased to offer language courses to professionals and continuing education students. These courses carry four undergraduate credits each and are offered in a virtual online format accessible to working professionals.