If you are hoping to study German during the summer of 2012 and cannot be in a physical classroom, consider the following program (s).
Seventeenth Annual Summer Language Program
LEARN FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ARABIC, LATIN, CLASSICAL GREEK, BIBILICAL HEBREW OR NT GREEK THIS SUMMER ONLINE
May 21 – July 12, 2012
Prepare for the Language Proficiency Exams
§ Rapid Reading Courses: Emphasis on Reading and Translating.
§ For all Graduate Students in the Arts & Sciences, or for any motivated college or high school student or other adult.
§ Online courses in “real time.” Students participate in class by speaking & translating. Each can hear the Instructor and other students. Take from any location or from home. One year of college language instruction in 8 weeks. Access to the Internet required.
§ Intensive Courses. No previous language knowledge required. Time commitment: 30 hrs/week, presuming 4 hours of outside preparation for every hour in class. Objective: to reach an intermediate reading level in the language.
§ Meetings: Mon./Wed. or Tues./Thurs., 6:15pm –9:15pm EST
§ 8 Weeks: May 21 – July 12, 2012
48 hours of instruction approximate 4 semester hours.
§ High success rate. Instructors experienced in rapid reading courses.
§ Limited Space Available. First come, first serve. Rolling Admissions. Applications accepted November 1, 2011 – May 10, 2012.
Course Fee: $800
Registration Deadline: May 10, 2012
For information and application:
Erasmus Academy NY Admissions Office
www.erasmusacademy.com
or call 718-499-0077
Discount Code: QTR161
German – Mr. Ron Ditmars
Mr. Ditmars did graduate work for six years at Freiburg University, Germany in classical and modern languages. He holds a Magister degree from that institution in modern German literature. He has a B.A. from Kenyon College, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a M. Phil from Union Seminary in NYC, where he directed its summer language program and taught the intensive German course for graduate students for nine years.
Download PDF of German Online Course Description 2012 for Erasmus Academy
Classical Latin – Dr. D. Ben DeSmidt
Dr. DeSmidt is Associate Professor of Classics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he has taught Latin and Greek languages and literatures for six years, and is the director of the Western Heritage Program. His B.A. is from the University of Chicago; he graduated with the Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University in 2006. This will be Ben’s third year of teaching the summer intensive, online Latin course with the Erasmus Academy.
Classical Greek – Dr. Alison Traweek
Dr. Traweek completed the Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, with a dissertation entitled “Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose.” Her B.A. in Classics and Creative Writing is from Columbia University and her M.A. in Classics is from the University of Texas at Austin. Alison has taught Intensive Greek and Intermed. Greek Prose as well as Latin courses at UPenn. This will be her second summer with Erasmus.
French – Mr. Matthew Udkovich
Mr. Udkovich’s B.A. is from Johns Hopkins University in French and Music, and his M.A and M.Phil. are from Columbia University. He received a fellowship to study at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2004-05). Since 2008 Matt has been a Lecturer at Yeshiva University in NYC, teaching all levels of French, French Cinema and Advanced Language & Composition. His French classes with Erasmus Academy have been popular among students.
Spanish – Ms. Isabel Amarante
Ms. Amarante teaches in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at City College of NY of CUNY. She has a B.A. from Brown University in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in Latin American Literature from Columbia University. From 2001 to 2006 Isabel taught all levels of Spanish to Columbia University undergraduates. For that program she introduced advanced Spanish grammar and vocabulary through a communicative approach.
Modern Standard Arabic – Mr. Nicola Carpentieri
Mr. Carpentieri will graduate in May, 2012, with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, where he has served for five years as a Teaching Fellow. He has taught elementary and intermediate Modern Arabic while there. In 2009 Nicola received the Harvard Derek Bok Center award for excellence in teaching. Other language competencies include Italian, Portuguese, Persian, and Classical Greek.
New Testament Greek – Mr. John Frederick
Mr. Frederick is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Greek New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He graduated with an M.Div. (summa cum laude) from Gordon-Conwell Theol. Seminary in 2010, where he received the Zondervan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biblical Greek. John is currently a Lecturer for NT Greek in the Divinity program of St. Andrews University, for which he has developed many innovative visual aids
Biblical Hebrew – Mr. Brendon Benz
Mr. Benz will receive his Ph.D. in the Hebrew and Judaic Studies Dept. of New York University in May, 2012. Since 2003 he has taught elementary and intermed. Biblical Hebrew at Princeton Theo. Seminary, Yale University, Nyack College, and NYU. His M.Div. is from Princeton Seminary in Old Testament. In April of 2011, Brendon received the NYU College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award.
Consider also Luther Seminary's Thorsten Moritz
http://www.theologicalgerman.info/
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What other online German reading or theological German courses do you know of?
