GSL Summer Courses

Learn about Asia and how knowledge about Asia is produced by reading and discussing four great books written by different authors in various writing genres and perspectives. Online course.

This online course familiarizes students with language and culture in China’s firewall protected Internet with over 1 billion users.

This comprehensive course is designed to promote communicative proficiency in four areas (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) and to better understand how the French language skills learned in the classroom allow students to relate to the Francophone world.

This comprehensive course is designed to promote communicative proficiency in four areas (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) and to better understand how the French language skills learned in the classroom allow students to relate to the Francophone world.

Promotes linguistic competency in French through intensive review and refinement of French grammar while introducing basic vocabulary and linguistic concepts.

Learn the basics: beginning German.

Learn the basics: Beginning German 2

Learn the Basics: beginning German 3

Examines the creation of national identity and multiculturalism through films, interdisciplinary texts, and other media.

Examines constructions of femininity and masculinity in German culture, literature and film. We will discuss how the question of gender is informed by sexuality, race and class. Topics include gender and national German identity and unconventional love stories. No knowledge of German required; readings and discussions in English.

This course will be offered in English. We will use German hip-hop to consider race and gender in Germany.
(ASYNC WEB)

In this course, we examine German cinema from its beginnings to the present.

This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to human wellbeing. We will take a thematic approach to analyzing the factors that impact wellbeing, focusing on health, education, and the environment.

An introduction to the field of “global ethics,” a new and productive way of understanding the ethics and challenges of our global community. The course examines the theories that inform the “global ethics” perspective in order to help us develop a “toolkit” that can be used to better understand and engage with specific real-world concerns and issues – human scale injustice, suffering and threats.

Kickstart a minor in Global Health or expand your knowledge of the field in this broad-ranging course.

This course offers an exploration of global food movements; topics to be covered include the transition from family farming to industrial agriculture, the relation between food sovereignty and food security, political economy of agriculture, agrarian values, agroecology, peasant movements, urban agriculture, and food justice.

There is no such thing as biological human race. So how did race become such an important social category? And why does it persist?

Join us to learn about pressing contemporary issues in Latin America and the Caribbean based on literature and media produced by key scholars and practitioners! Topics include alternative models of development, progressive social movements (women’s, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, Black, worker, and small farmer organizations), development challenges, the Latinx community in Oregon and the U.S., impacts of neoliberal capitalism, environmental justice, eco-socialism, US-Latin American relations, ecotourism, and drug geographies.

Italian 104 is the first in the series of Online First Year Intensive Italian summer courses (followed by Italian 105). It is designed for students who have no previous Italian instruction and who wish to have an online immersion language learning experience. This 5-week online course (June 26 through July 29, 2023) will be offered completely online consisting of asynchronous (not at the same time) and some synchronous (at the same time) activities. Since our goal is to create an intensive immersion language learning experience, you will be expected to engage in various language activities at least 3-4 hours daily. All of the course activities will be completed online using the course website on Canvas or other internet-based resources. You will complete the regular asynchronous tasks when it’s convenient for you within a fixed period of time. There will also be activities you will do with your partners using Zoom. For these, you will follow the schedule set by the instructor and set aside time to work with your peer(s) according to your available times.

SPAN 111-112 is a two-term sequence designed for students with up to two years of prior Spanish experience or experience with French, Italian or Portuguese.

SPAN 111-112 is a two-term sequence designed for students with up to two years of prior Spanish experience or experience with French, Italian or Portuguese.

An intermediate-level course designed to provide an active and rewarding learning experience and to strengthen students' language skills and cultural competencies.

Todos los materiales para esta clase están disponibles en CANVAS.

Join us to explore socio-linguistic dynamics of communities around the world in which Spanish is in contact with another language. Designed for heritage learners—students who grew up with Spanish in their community and want to continue developing communication skills in Spanish. Open to all students. Taught in Spanish.

Advanced writing course for heritage learners.

Los lingüistas son científicos sociales que buscan responder a preguntas relacionadas con nuestro conocimiento y uso del lenguaje. Por ejemplo, ¿cuáles son las principales características del lenguaje humano? ¿Cómo se estructura y organiza? ¿Qué significa saber una lengua y usarla hábilmente?

Introduction to the Spanish sound system and its different dialects and their social meaning and value.