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Distance Learning at UCLA

Distance Learning for Less Commonly Taught Languages

Fall Quarter 2008
   Incoming Courses
   Outgoing Courses

Winter Quarter 2009
   Available October 27

Spring Quarter 2009
   Available February 2 

For enrollment policies regarding distance learning, see "Simultaneous UC Enrollment" in the Academic Policies section of the Schedule. The enrollment form, Undergraduate Application for Simultaneous UC Enrollment, can be obtained from the 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) 206-6591 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 I.D. 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 Fall Quarter 2008.

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.

Other UC Campuses Incoming Videoconferencing Courses

In 2008-09, UC Berkeley is offering language courses in advanced Bulgarian, beginning and advanced Danish, beginning and advanced Finnish, and beginning Zulu 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 Undergraduate Application for Simultaneous UC Enrollment form. Applications are available (1) online, (2) from the student affairs advising offices in the College and schools, or (3) from Mel Strom, Distance Learning Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages, Center for Digital Humanities, 1085 Public Affairs Building, (310) 384-3248. Graduate students may enroll through the Intercampus Exchange Program; applications are available at Graduate Admissions/Student and Academic Affairs, 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. Fall Semester instruction begins August 28, 2008. The first Bulgarian and Finnish (both levels) classes meet on August 28; the first Danish (both levels) and Zulu classes meet on September 25, 2008.

African American Studies

C13A. Elementary Zulu. (4 semester units) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Not open to native or heritage speakers of Zulu. Introduction to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Zulu, with emphasis on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic Zulu 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 exercise, independent reading projects, and compositions. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer G. Sibanda Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 11 a.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

Scandinavian

2A. Beginning Finnish. (4 semester units) Language instruction, three hours; computer laboratory, one hour. 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 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

4A. Beginning Danish. (4 semester units) Language instruction, three hours; computer laboratory, one hour. 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.

100A. Scandinavian Languages and Linguistics (Advanced Danish). (4 semester units) Language instruction, two hours; lecture, one hour. Requisite: course 1B, 3B, or 4B. In context of inter-Scandinavian communication, further development of communicative competence, reading and writing abilities, and cultural understanding in target language (Danish). P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB lecturer K. Moller Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11 a.m. to noon and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

102A. Advanced Finnish. (4 semester units) Language instruction, four hours. Requisite: course 2B. Acquisition of communicative competence necessary to function in authentic situations of language use in terms of grammatical, functional, and sociolinguistic skills. Reading and interpretation of literary and nonliterary texts from cultural perspective. Use of flexible group work and independent project approach to advanced language study. May be repeated for credit. 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.

Slavic Languages and Literatures

118A. Advanced Bulgarian. (4 semester units) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 28B. Review of Bulgarian grammar covered in courses 28A and 28B, with thorough presentation of complex verbal tense-mood system and readings in contemporary Bulgarian prose. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by UCB professor R. Alexander Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon to 1 p.m. and videoconferenced to 270 Powell Library Building.

UCLA Outgoing Videoconferencing Courses

UCLA is offering the following courses 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.

Czech

102A. Advanced Czech. (4) (Formerly numbered 102D.) Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 101C. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by S. Kresin Monday and Wednesday from noon to 1:20 p.m. and Friday at 11 a.m. in 311 Humanities Building and videoconferenced to UC Santa Barbara.

Russian

130A. Russian Poetry: Introduction to Analysis of Russian Poetry. (4) Lecture, three hours. Preparation: third-year Russian recommended. Lectures and readings in Russian. Role of biography, cultural subtexts, rhetoric, and form in interpreting poetic texts. May be repeated for credit with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by A. Ospovat Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in 3178 Bunche Hall and videoconferenced to UC Santa Barbara.

140A. Russian Prose Fiction: Introduction to Analysis of Russian Narrative Prose. (4) Lecture, three hours. Preparation: third-year Russian recommended. Lectures and readings in Russian. Close analysis of genre, narrative, and rhetorical strategies and interplay of literature, history, and culture. May be repeated for credit with topic and/or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading. Taught by A. Ospovat Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 3:15 p.m. in 2284 Public Affairs Building and videoconferenced to UC Santa Barbara.