Unlock New Skills This Summer: Explore our 2025 Course Offerings
February 28, 2025

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