Summer Session offers remote-instruction courses to provide heritage speakers of selected languages the opportunity to strengthen their reading and writing skills, and jump-start their readiness for Autumn 2023 coursework. Click on the languages below to see course descriptions, eligibility requirements, and placement information. These languages are also taught for non-heritage learners earlier in the summer, information for which can be found on the Summer Language Institute page.
September Term Heritage Language Courses
These three-week, 100-unit courses offered via remote instruction are open to incoming and current UChicago undergraduate and graduate students.
- placed into SPAN 10200 or 10300
- have not placed into the heritage track (SPAN 20102), or
- have not studied Spanish formally
Course Description
This intensive, online course is designed to build on heritage learners’ skills to prepare them for success in courses offered during the academic year. Skill areas include in-depth practice in reading and writing, along with review and expansion of targeted grammar structures, development of precision in vocabulary as well as practice writing and typing Chinese characters. Students can expect to do 25-30 hours of asynchronous work each week, in addition to weekly synchronous meetings. Passing this course satisfies the College Language Competency Requirement.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for heritage learners who were placed into CHIN 10300 or did not place into the Chinese Heritage sequence (CHIN 11100).
What are the benefits of taking this course?
After taking this course, students would be eligible to take CHIN 22100 (2nd-year Chinese Heritage) in the Autumn quarter. Since CHIN 11100 to 11300 is a three-quarter sequence, students might have time conflicts with other courses during the academic year. If they take this course in summer, they can better plan for their future course arrangement in the regular quarters.
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Course Dates |
Days & Times |
Course Code |
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8/28-9/15/23 |
Mon Thurs 3:00-4:10 pm Central time |
CHIN 11400 91 |
Course Description
This intensive, online course is designed to build on heritage learners’ skills to prepare them for success in courses offered during the academic year. Skill areas include in-depth practice in reading and writing, along with review and expansion of targeted grammar structures, and development of precision in vocabulary. Students can expect to do 25-30 hours of asynchronous work each week, in addition to weekly synchronous meetings. Passing this course satisfies the College Language Competency Requirement.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for heritage Spanish learners who:
What are the benefits of taking this course?
After taking this course, students would be eligible for either SPAN 20102 or 20302, depending on their initial language level and/or performance in this course. This will help heritage students who did not place into the heritage course (20102) by pulling them out of the conventional four-skills course (i.e., not heritage).
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Course Dates |
Days & Times |
Course Code |
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8/28-9/15/23 |
Tues Thurs 1:00-2:00 pm Central time |
SPAN 10402 91 |
Program Details
- Undergraduate tuition for the Heritage language courses is estimated to be $4,500.
- These courses are part of Summer Session, and thus will be billed separately from Autumn quarter.
- Bills will be posted at the end of July.
- Your most recent transcript from UChicago (current students) or your most recent school/university (incoming students).
- Please handwrite a paragraph-long self-introduction (e.g. yourself, hobbies, family members, and your Chinese learning history) without any resources/dictionary/help. Take a photo or scanned image of your sample and upload it in the application.
- All applicants for Chinese will be contacted after your submission is received to schedule a brief one-on-one conversation with the course instructor to provide additional information about your spoken fluency.
- Enrolled students can drop a three-week Heritage course through Friday, September 2, 2023 at 4:00PM CST (the Friday of the first week of the course).
- a “W” will appear as the course grade and
- 100% of tuition will be billed
Requests to register for August Heritage Language courses are currently being accepted from current College students only.
Instructors from each language will use information from the Summer Placement tests to identify heritage learners and reach out to those who are eligible.
For language-specific proficiency requirements for enrollment and course equivalents, click the language above.
College students have continual access to the Canvas sites where the placement tests are located for the duration of their time at UChicago. If you have not taken a placement test, can’t find your results, or have other questions, contact Lidwina van den Hout (lmvdhout@uchicago.edu).
If you are a graduate student, contact Lidwina van den Hout (lmvdhout@uchicago.edu) to be added to the Canvas site where you can take a placement test.
Placement tests must be completed before requesting enrollment.
Undergraduates
Course Application Components
Incoming UChicago students can apply and find detailed information on the Incoming Students page.
Current College students interested in these courses may still request enrollment - contact Val Huston at vhuston@uchicago.edu for more information.
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Be ready to provide the following information with your request:
For all courses
For Chinese
Financial Aid
Limited financial aid in the form of partial tuition awards is available to incoming and current College students and incoming or current students in the MAPH, MAPSS, CIR, CMES, and CLAS programs enrolling in the Autumn Heritage Language courses. Because these are pilot courses, financial aid funds come from a different source than academic year awards, and will not affect your academic year award eligibility.
If you would like to request undergraduate tuition assistance, include that in your enrollment request.
Heritage language course students must email summersession@uchicago.edu to request a course drop or withdrawal.
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Please Note: Verbally informing an instructor that you are dropping or failing to attend a class does not constitute a drop or withdraw request.
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UChicago students who drop a course on or before the relevant deadline will not be billed for that course and the course will not appear on the student’s transcript.
Requests to drop a course submitted after the drop deadline will be processed as a course withdrawal, which means:
| General questions regarding aid and billing | summersession@uchicago.edu |
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Enrollment and withdrawal requests |
Val Huston vhuston@uchicago.edu |
| Questions about language-specific eligibility |
Chinese: Yi-Lu Kuo yilukuo@uchicago.edu Spanish: Lidwina van den Hout-Huijben lmvdhout@uchicago.edu |
| Questions about the Heritage Language Program |
Lidwina van den Hout-Huijben lmvdhout@uchicago.edu |
Who is the target audience for these new courses?
These Heritage Literacy courses are designed for heritage learners who have relatively strong speaking and listening skills (i.e., could hold a basic conversation with a family member), but less proficiency in reading and writing (would have difficulty writing an email to a professor or reading an announcement for a community event or a brief newspaper article).
How are these different from other language courses?
For each language, these literacy courses will be tailored for heritage learners with relatively low literacy skills. Therefore, they will be more efficient than four-skill courses, and are better tailored the needs of heritage learners.
Do these courses fulfill any graduation requirements?
All Summer Session Heritage Language courses fulfill the College's Language Competency requirement.
I am an incoming first-year College student, and am already taking a Summer Session course. Can I take a Heritage Language course, too?
Yes, as long as the course meeting times do not conflict with your other course.