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- Conversaciones – Online
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Item Number: W25LANG161
Dates: 1/30/2025 - 2/27/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 18
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Ginny Blankinship
This course is designed to provide an opportunity to speak and listen to Spanish in a comfortable nonjudgmental atmosphere. It is meant for those who already speak Spanish with some fluency but who don’t have all the opportunities to converse that they would like. Each week, students will be provided with materials to stimulate conversation on a particular theme, including poems, readings, song lyrics, and discussion questions. During each class, we’ll talk in a whole group and in breakout rooms. Themes include holidays, being bilingual, photography and more, but it will be all right to stray from the theme. Grammar and vocabulary questions that arise will be answered, but the class is about enjoying conversation in Spanish. Any learning that occurs arises from that. It will enhance our conversation if students spend some time with the materials posted on LearnerNotes before each class. Translations are provided for readings and song lyrics.
NOTE: This is not a Spanish course per se, and it won’t work for beginners. Rather it is a chance for those who already comprehend and speak Spanish with some fluency to listen to others, converse freely, and encounter readings and songs that reflect Hispanic culture. Those who have been in previous Conversaciones courses will find new themes, readings, and music.
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- Cyrillic: An Introduction – Online
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Item Number: W25LANG163
Dates: 1/7/2025 - 1/21/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 3
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Alice Taylor, Marcus Levitt
The alphabet with which one reads and writes offers a key to a language’s cultural roots. This course will offer a panoramic overview of the Slavic world from this perspective, with the main focus on Russian. Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, as are several other Slavic tongues, including Ukrainian, Serbian, and Bulgarian, while other Slavic languages — Polish, Czech, Croatian, and Slovenian — use the Latin script. This class provides some explanation for these cultural and historical divides, and it will also provide some practice reading the letters used in Russian. It is a good way for students with some Russian who would like to join the conversation course, Fun with Russian, to brush up, but those with no knowledge of Russian are welcome to join and to gain some understanding of this part of the world and the role of languages in shaping its culture and history.
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- Enjoy German! – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LANG100A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room B
Instructor: Udo Gorsch-Nies
This is a previously taught course with new content. This course aims at broadening a student’s vocabulary and understanding of the day-to-day German spoken today. The etymology of certain words will be discussed, and the rules of grammar will be explained on request. This term, we will read the author’s memoirs referring to the events in 1991 and later.
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- Exotic Travel – Online
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Item Number: W25LANG104
Dates: 2/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Tony Davis
In this course, speakers will explore what it’s like to work abroad in faraway places. We’ll start with teaching in China, working in the government of the Federated States of Micronesia, consulting in Uganda, and volunteer medical work elsewhere in Africa. The presenters will bring some perspectives that differ a bit from the tourist experience visiting these countries. Each presentation will be about 90 minutes, via Zoom, and there will be opportunities for questions and discussion.
NOTE: There is no class session on Wednesday, February 19.
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- Fun with Russian – In-Person
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This highly interactive, informal class will give you a chance to improve your Russian. We will use a minimum of English, and repeat and contextualize Russian so that everyone understands and can respond in Russian. Grammar will be discussed only as needed, as our focus will be on using Russian. The free online textbook, “Mezhdu Nami,” provides some materials, along with a selection of short readings, songs, and poems.
NOTE: We don’t expect students with fluent Russian. Experience shows that some students struggle with pronunciation, some with cases, and some with the Cyrillic alphabet. For the latter, our course, Cyrillic: An Introduction, is recommended.
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- Wines of the World – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LANG159A
Dates: 1/29/2025 - 3/5/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 22
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Dan Dawson
This term’s course will introduce six new wine regions, not covered in previous “Wines of the World” offerings. Lectures using PowerPoint and multimedia will cover the geography, climate, soils, history, varietals, labeling, and regulatory structure of each region. We will taste four quality wines from that region and discuss our perceptions. No special background knowledge is required but a passion for wine is recommended.
NOTE: A class fee will be charged to cover the cost of the premium wines we taste. The fee will be based on the cost of the wines but will not exceed $120 per student. Students are required to pay the full fee, even if they expect to miss some classes. A signed liability waiver is required.
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