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Distance Learning at UCLA

Distance Learning for Less Commonly Taught Languages

Winter/Spring Quarter 2013
 Winter/Spring Incoming Courses
 Winter Outgoing Course
 Spring Outgoing Course

For enrollment policies regarding distance learning, see "Simultaneous UC Enrollment" in the Academic Policies section of the Schedule. The enrollment form, Simultaneous UC Enrollment Undergraduate Application, can be obtained from the Registrar's Office forms page.

Distance Learning at UCLA

Distance learning courses offered through UCLA connect students and faculty through live real-time interaction to sites outside UCLA, including other universities and institutions around the world. Through the use of videoconference technology, participants at both sites can see and hear each other, and multisite conferencing is available to enable students at three or four different locations to take the same course together.

Distance learning courses and videoconferencing can take place wherever there is a network connection to the Internet, which includes 80 percent of general assignment classrooms at UCLA. In addition, there are facilities on campus dedicated for use as distance learning classrooms and for videoconferencing.

For more information, contact Don Roby at (310) 206-7449 or send e-mail to vidcon@ucla.edu. For further information about the classrooms that have Internet connectivity, see the Office of Instructional Development Audio Visual Services website. For course ID numbers, times, and locations, see the appropriate department and course listing section of the Schedule of Classes.

At press time, no distance learning courses are scheduled for Spring Quarter 2013.

Distance Learning for Less Commonly Taught Languages

In order to make the most of language resources available at the University of California campuses, the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching encourages the use of distance learning to promote access to the less commonly taught languages. Through UC Simultaneous Enrollment, students can enroll in language courses that use videoconferencing to bring students and faculty members from different campuses together.

In 2012-13, UC Berkeley is offering language courses in beginning and intermediate Danish, beginning Finnish, intermediate Khmer, and elementary and intermediate Wolof via videoconference. Each class session is transmitted via Internet videoconferencing to UCLA so that students at UCLA can participate and interact in real time with students in the UCB classroom. UCLA videoconferencing sessions are held in the Instructional Media Laboratory, 270 Powell Library Building.

UCLA undergraduate students can request enrollment in the UCB classes using the Simultaneous UC Enrollment Undergraduate Application. Applications are available online or from the student affairs advising offices in the College and schools. Graduate students may enroll through the Intercampus Exchange Program; applications are available at Graduate Academic Services, 1255 Murphy Hall. Grades and units are entered as transfer credit from UCB.

Students interested in the classes should consult the UC Berkeley Schedule of Classes.

NOTE: UCB is on the semester calendar. Spring Semester instruction began January 15, 2013. The following courses began in January.

African American Studies

7B. Elementary Wolof. (4 semester units) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 7A. Not open to native or heritage speakers of Wolof. Introduction to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Wolof, with emphasis on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic Wolof structures and vocabulary in culturally and socially appropriate context. Development of speaking and listening abilities through oral exercises, class discussions, and recordings available from Berkeley Language Center. Reading and writing development through in-class exercises, independent reading projects, and compositions. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer P. Sow Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

8B. Intermediate Wolof. (4 semester units) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 8A. Review and expansion of student knowledge of fundamental structures from elementary Wolof and appropriate cultural contexts of these in oral and written communication. Grammar and vocabulary in culturally and socially appropriate context. Speaking ability expanded through oral exercises, individual reports, class discussions, and recordings available at Berkeley Language Center. Writing and reading expanded through compositions, written exercises, and independent reading projects with texts available through Berkeley's African Library Collection and supplemented by instructor's materials. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer P. Sow Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

Khmer

100B. Intermediate Khmer. (5 semester units) Lecture, five hours. Requisite: course 100A. Reading of roadside signs, scholarly articles, and entire Khmer novel. Topics include current events in Cambodia, Cambodian history and politics, and basic overview of traditional Khmer literature. Work on projects in groups with other students, such as preparation and performance of play based on sections of modern Khmer novel. Independent research project on topic of student choice and presentation of research to peers, entirely in Khmer. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer F. Smith Monday through Thursday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

Scandinavian

2B. Beginning Finnish. (4 semester units) Language instruction, three hours; computer laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 2A. Development of basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language within cultural context. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer S. Tuomainen Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

4B. Intermediate Danish. (4 semester units) Language instruction, three hours; computer laboratory, one hour. Requisite: course 4A. Development of basic elements of communicative competence in both spoken and written language within cultural context. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer K. Moller Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

UCLA is offering the following course through videoconferencing. Students from other UC campuses may enroll through UC Simultaneous Enrollment. Non-UC students may enroll with consent of instructor through UCLA Extension. Consult the Registrar’s Office on the respective campuses for details about where to obtain the enrollment form and for the policies that apply to simultaneous enrollment on each campus.

At press time, no outgoing UCLA videoconferencing courses are scheduled for Spring Quarter 2013.