Record CourseShare Participation

This semester, almost 50 University of Minnesota (UMN) students have access to the languages they need to achieve their personal and professional goals through the CourseShare program. This is the highest number of students who have participated to date, and includes students from multiple colleges and academic levels who now have the opportunity to learn a variety of languages from Basque to Yoruba.

Many individuals from across the university help make this opportunity possible for students, from the advisors who promote options, to the registrars who work around the clock as the semester begins to ensure students have access to course materials. However, the most essential individuals by far are the UMN language and culture instructors who teach the courses we send in the Big Ten and to UMN-Morris. The generosity and flexibility of CLA instructors is well established, and this positive reputation ensures that when a UMN student requests a new language or course, there is a good chance a partner university will step up to help them.

A big thank you to the following instructors for sharing their courses Spring 2021:

• Meraj Ahmed 
  • Beginning Hindi II > Ohio State University(OSU)
  • Beginning Urdu II > OSU & the University of Maryland (UMD)
  • Intermediate Urdu II > UMD
• Sophia Beal
  • Global Portuguese/1900-present > The University of Michigan (UMich)
• Hangtae Cho
  • Topics in Korean Culture - Current Affairs and Everyday Life in Two Koreas > Penn State University (PSU) and the University of Iowa (UIowa)
• Šišóka Dúta
  • Beginning Dakota II > UMN-Morris
  • Intermediate Dakota II > UMN-Morris & UIowa
• Ana Paula Ferreira
  • Film Studies in Portuguese > UMich
• Mohsen Goudarzi
  • Exploring the Quran > PSU
• Dan Haataja 
  • Intermediate Finnish II > the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)
• Kyle Korynta
  • Beginning Norwegian II > MSU and UMD
• Lena Norrman
  • Beginning Swedish II > MSU
• Renana Schneller
  • Beginning Modern Hebrew II >UIowa
• DeeAnn Sime
  • Intermediate German II > UMN-Morris
• Kia Yang
  • Beginning Hmong II > UMich
• Hanna Zmijewska-Emerson
  • Intermediate Norwegian II > UMD

Instructors who are interested in potentially sharing a class next academic year in the Big Ten or UMN system can email Stephanie Treat at treat002@umn.edu to start a discussion. If you are an instructor who has tried to share a language in the past and did not find a sustainable partner, we can always try again. A successful connection requires the right language for the right student at the right time. Often the “right time” is the missing factor, but persistence can pay off. Some of our most successful partnerships have taken years to develop.