CourseShare for Fall 2020: Even more languages available!

Options for University of Minnesota students to learn the languages of the world continue to grow!

With the help of university academic language and culture departments, who have helped advertise options to students, there are now even more CourseShare options for Fall 2020. Newly scheduled classes include Advanced Vietnamese and Beginning Hungarian. Beginning Ukrainian and Sanskrit are in process, and should be available for registration soon. These newly added language classes, like all received CourseShare courses are offered exclusively online.

The most exciting development in CourseShare though, is not the languages the University of Minnesota is receiving in the Big Ten, it’s the languages we are sending. The number of less commonly taught languages we are sharing with other institutions continues to grow, as does the number of receiving sites. Because almost all of these courses shared are entirely online, one class can be shared with students at multiple universities. As just a couple of examples, Beginning Urdu is being shared with the universities of Maryland and Iowa, as well as Ohio State University, and Beginning Norwegian is being shared with Maryland, Iowa and Michigan State University.

University of Minnesota less commonly taught language instructors’ outreach and generosity are helping to develop our institution’s reputation as an academic home for a variety of languages offered in the departments of American Indian, Asian and Middle Eastern, Classical and Near Eastern, and German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch. Because new connections are currently under discussion, a comprehensive list of the instructors sharing their languages will be available later this summer.

Here is the updated list of received classes available for Fall 2020:

• LANG 1201: Beginning Basque I
• LANG 2011: Accelerated Catalan I
• LANG 3012: Advanced Catalan: Language, Society and Culture
• LANG 3014: Reading Catalan for Research Purposes
• LANG 1021: Beginning Czech I
• LANG 2031: Intermediate Danish I
• LANG 5221: Introduction to Middle Egyptian & Hieroglyphics I
• LANG 1251: Beginning Haitian Creole I
• LANG 1161: Beginning Hungarian I
• LANG 3506: The Koreas: Korean War to the 21st Century
• LANG 1231: Beginning Modern Greek I
• LANG 2231: Intermediate Modern Greek I
• LANG 1061: Beginning Persian I
• LANG 1071: Beginning Polish I
• LANG 2071: Intermediate Polish I
• LANG 3071: Advanced Polish I
• LANG 1081: Beginning Sanskrit I (registration opening soon)
• LANG 1261: Beginning Ukrainian I (registration opening soon)
• LANG 2121: Intermediate Vietnamese I
• LANG 5121: Advanced Vietnamese III
• LANG 1131: Beginning Yiddish I
• LANG 1141: Beginning Yoruba I

More classes may be added, so please check back! Students and advisors who do not see the language or level they are looking for should email Stephanie at elsie@umn.edu to convey their interest. Please note that space is limited in all of these courses, and that most have special start and end dates.