3. Online Courses

If you are hoping to study German during the summer of 2010 and cannot be in a physical classroom, consider the Erasmus Academy NY Summer Language Program or correspondence courses at the Goethe Institut.

Erasmus Academy NY Summer Language Program

German for Reading Online Instructor: Ron Ditmars

May 24 – July 14, 2010 (8 weeks)

www.languageprodigy.com

LEARN GERMAN THIS SUMMER ONLINE

Fifteenth Annual Summer Language Program

Prepare for the Language Proficiency Exams

• Emphasis on Reading and Translating German.
• For all Graduate Students in the Arts & Sciences, or for any motivated college or high school student or other adult desiring to read in the language.
• Online course in “real time.” Students fully participate by listening & speaking, translating and posing questions. Take from any location or from home. One year of college German in 8 weeks. Access to the Internet and to a phone line required.
• Intensive Course; No previous language knowledge required. Time commitment – approximately 30 hrs/week.
• Objective: To read modern scholarly articles in German. Includes readings from Th. Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Martin Buber, Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, etc.
• Meetings: Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:15pm –9:15pm EST
• 8 Weeks: May 24 – July 14, 2010 (48 hours of instruction approximate 4 semester hours. Modern methods. Strategies for analyzing German sentences. CD’s & mp3 files.)
• High success rate. Instructor’s Background: 6 years of graduate work at a German university; 12 years of teaching the intensive German course to graduate students in NYC area, and online.
• Limited Space Available. First come, first serve. Rolling Admissions. Applications accepted November 1, ‘09 – May 12, ‘10.
• Course Fee: $700

Application Deadline: May 12, 2010

For information and application, write to:

Erasmus Academy NY Admissions

297 Kinderkamack Rd. #150

Oradell, New Jersey 07649

Call 201-265-0765

or visit www.languageprodigy.com

Download Erasmus.German.Online.Course.Description.2010

Download Erasmus.German.Online.Enrollment.Form.2010

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What other online German reading or theological German courses do you know of?

Comments

[Cabe Matthews]

http://www.livemocha.com/

It's free and, as far as I can tell, is pretty similar to Rosetta Stone. I've been pretty impressed with it so far.

[Shawn Wamsley]

Andy,

Have you had any exposure to the “MIT OpenCourseWare” material available for studying German and French?

If you are not familiar with the OCW program that MIT has put together, here is a link

http://ocw.mit.edu/

I am downloading all of their course material (including videos of lectures, exercises, etc. off iTunesU) as I write this.

Cheers!