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Unlock New Skills This Summer: Explore our 2025 Course Offerings

February 28, 2025 Arabic | Chinese | Cinema and Media Studies | French | German Studies | Japanese | Russian | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese

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Gain ground and earn UMD credits through convenient 3 and 6-week summer sessions.

Register for UMD Summer Session classes

Summer Session I | 06/02/2025 - 07/11/2025

Summer Session II | 07/14/2025 - 08/22/2025

 

Arabic

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Arabic are part of the Summer Language Institute

ARAB190 Introduction to Arab Cultures & Societies

Chinese

CHIN101 - Intensive Elementary Chinese I

CHIN102 - Elementary Spoken Chinese

CHIN103 - Elementary Written Chinese

CHIN201 - Intermediate Spoken Chinese I

CHIN202 - Intermediate Written Chinese I

CHIN203 - Intermediate Spoken Chinese II

CHIN204 - Intermediate Written Chinese II

 

Cinema and Media Studies

CINE245 - Film Form and Culture

CINE319B - Special Topics in Documentary, Animation, Experimental Cinema, and Other Visual Media; Disney without Disney: The Afterlives of Children's Media Icons

CINE329T - Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Sports in Film

CINE329U - Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; Lord of the Rings Films

CINE352 - The Baddest Decade: The 1970s in American Film and American History

CINE359K - Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; The Horror Film

CINE359T - Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; The Suspense Thriller in World Cinema

CINE459M - Special Topics in Genres/Auteurs/Cinema Movements; Science Fiction Cinema: Masterworks
 

French

FREN103 - Intensive Elementary French

FREN203 - Intensive Intermediate French

FREN204 - French Grammar and Composition

FREN301 - Composition and Style
 

German

GERS103 - Intensive Elementary German

GERS203 - Intensive Intermediate German

GERS301 - Conversation and Composition I: The German-Speaking World

GERS302 - Conversation and Composition II: Current Topics in German-Speaking Society

GERS399O
Selected Topics in German Studies; Encountering the Other in Contemporary German Society (1945-Present)

Japanese

JAPN101 - Elementary Japanese I

JAPN102 - Elementary Japanese II
 

Persian

Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Persian are part of the Summer Language Institute

PERS398Z - Special Topics in Persian Studies; Women in Islamic History, 600-1500

PERS498F - Special Topics in Persian Studies; City and Architecture in Middle Eastern Cinema
 

Russian

RUSS398C - Russian Practicum in Conversation with a Focus on Phonetics and Intonation

RUSS398G - Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature; Russian Grammar
 

Spanish

SPAN103 - Intensive Elementary Spanish

SPAN203 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish

SPAN204 - Spanish Grammar Review

SPAN207 - Reading and Writing in Spanish

SPAN301 - Advanced Grammar and Composition I

SPAN303 - Approaches to Cultural Materials in the Hispanic World

SPAN311 - Advanced Communication I

SPAN363 - Latin American Literatures and Cultures III: From Modernism to Neo-Liberalism

SPAN448M - Special Topics in Latin American Civilization; Contemporary Puerto Rican Musicality: Sounds and Lyrics