Summer Course List
2025 4-week session: May 19 - June 13
2025 8-week session: June 16 - August 8
Current UIC students and visiting students who have been admitted will be able to access more detailed scheduling information including seat availability and assigned instructors by logging into the portal, my.UIC.edu.
Courses below reflect offerings for Summer Session 2024. The Summer Session 2025 course list will be updated in January.
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ACTG
8-Week Session Courses
ACTG 210: Introduction to Financial Accounting
ACTG 211: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
ACTG 315: Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACTG 316: Intermediate Financial Accounting II
ACTG 326: Cost Accounting
ACTG 417: Advanced Financial Accounting
ACTG 435Â Auditing
ACTG 445: Federal Income Tax I
ACTG 470: Ethical Environment of Business
ACTG 474: Accounting Information Systems
ACTG 484: International Accounting
ARAB
8-Week Session Courses
ARAB 115: Intensive Elementary Arabic (Note: This course will start 5/13/24 and end 7/5/24.)
BIOS
4-Week Session Courses
BIOS 331: General Ecology Laboratory
BIOS 336: Animal Behavior Laboratory
BIOS 343: Animal Physiological Systems
BIOS 431: Plant and Animal Interactions
8-Week Session Courses
BIOS 104: Biology for Non-majors
BIOS 110: Biology of Cells and Organisms
BIOS 120: Biology of Populations and Communities
BIOS 220: Genetics
BIOS 230: Evolution and Ecology
BIOS 310: Genetics Laboratory
BIOS 325: Human Embryology
BIOS 326: Embryology Laboratory
BIOS 350: General Microbiology
CHEM
4-Week Session Courses
CHEM 101: Preparatory Chemistry
8-Week Session Courses
CHEM 122: Matter and Energy (previous title: General Chemistry I Lecture)
CHEM 123: Foundations of Chemical Inquiry I (previous title: General Chemistry I Lab)
CHEM 124: Chemical Dynamics (previous title: General Chemistry II Lecture)
CHEM 125: Foundations of Chemical Inquiry II (previous title: General Chemistry II Lab)
CHEM 222: Analytical Chemistry
CHEM 232: Structure and Function (previous title: Organic Chemistry I)
CHEM 233: Synthesis Techniques Laboratory (previous title: Organic Chemistry I Lab)
CHEM 234: Chemical Synthesis (previous title: Organic Chemistry II)
CHEM 343: Physical Chemistry Laboratory
CME
8-Week Session Courses
CME 201: Statics
CME 203: Strength of Materials
CME 205: Structural Analysis I
CME 260: Properties of Materials
CME 494: Special Topics in Civil and Materials Engineering: CME Project Financial Management
CME 494: Special Topics in Civil and Materials Engineering: Geomatics Engineering
COMM
4-Week Session Courses
COMM 100: Fundamentals of Human Communication
COMM 101: Introduction to Communication
COMM 103: Introduction to Media
COMM 216: Digital Journalism
COMM 220: Social Media and Marketing
COMM 225: Advertising and Society
COMM 240: Data Journalism
COMM 250: Social Media and Society
COMM 495: Happiness and Social Media
8-Week Session Courses
COMM 100: Fundamentals of Human Communication
COMM 102: Introduction to Communication
COMM 103: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
COMM 200: Communication Technologies
COMM 474: Internship (only open to current UIC students)
CS
4-Week Session Courses
CS 107: Introduction to Computing and Programming
CS 141: Program Design II
CS 361: Systems Programming
CS 474: Object-Oriented Languages and Environments
8-Week Session Courses
CS 151: Mathematical Foundations of Computing
CS 211: Programming Practicum
CS 251: Data Structures
CS 401: Computer Algorithms I
CS 480: Database Systems
CI
4-Week Session Courses
CI 429: Secondary Science Education in Urban Settings
CI 452: Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media
CI 482: Assessment and Instruction: A Multilingual/Multicultural Perspective
8-Week Session Courses (Note: All CI courses in the 8-week session begin 6/10/24 and end 7/19/24 [6 weeks long].)
CI 414: Middle and High School Literacy
CI 464: Bilingualism and Literacy in a Second Language
CI 472: Language Proficiency Assessment and ESL Instruction
ED
4-Week Session Courses
ED 431: Improving Learning Environments
8-Week Session Courses (Note: All ED courses in the 8-week session begin 6/10/24 and end 7/19/24 [6 weeks long].)
ED 135: Child and Youth Policies in Urban America
ED 200: Education Policy Foundations
ED 210: Principles of Learning and Instruction Across the Lifespan
ED 445: Adolescence and the Schools
EPSY
4-Week Session Courses
EPSY 465: Understanding Students with High Incidence Disabilities
8-Week Session Courses (Note: All EPSY courses in the 8-week session begin 6/10/24 and end 7/19/24 [6 weeks long].)
EPSY 160: Games, Learning, and Society
EPSY 255: Child Development in Contemporary Society
EPSY 326: Child Health, Safety, and Nutrition
EPSY 382: Child, Family, and Community
EPSY 453: Educational Programming and Community Relations for Leaders in Early Childhood Education
EPSY 467: Understanding Students With Low Incidence Disabilities
EPSY 482: Collaborating with Families, Community, and Professionals
ECE
8-Week Session Courses
ECE 225: Circuit Analysis
ECE 265: Introduction to Logic Design
ECE 266: Introduction to Embedded Systems
ECE 310: Discrete and Continuous Signals and Systems
ECE 317: Digital Signal Processing I
ECE 333: Computer Communication Networks I
ECE 340: Electronics I
ECE 341: Probability and Random Processes for Engineers
ECE 499: Professional Development Seminar
ENGL
4-Week Session Courses
ENGL 118: Introduction to African American Literature, 1760-1910
ENGL 135: Understanding Popular Genres and Culture
8-Week Session Courses
ENGL 132: Understanding Film
ENGL 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts
ENGL 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
ENGL 207: Interpretation and Critical Analysis
ENGL 208: English Studies I: Beginnings to the 17th Century
ENGL 209: English Studies II: 17th Century to Today
ENGL 282: Peer Tutoring in the Writing Center: Introduction to Theory and Practice
ENGL 291: Introduction to the Writing of Fiction
FIN
4-Week Session Courses
FIN 250: Personal Finance
FIN 300: Introduction to Finance
FIN 310: Investments
FIN 423: Financial Modeling, Analysis, and Decision Making
FIN 473: Risk Management and Insurance
8-Week Session Courses
FIN 300: Introduction to Finance
FIN 320: Managerial Finance
FIN 330: Quantitative Methods
FIN 449: Applied Equity Investment Management
GER
8-Week Session Courses
GER 217: Introduction to German Cinema (Note: Two different sections of this 8-week course will be offered. One section will start 5/13/24 and end 7/5/24. The second section will start on 6/10/24 and end 8/2/24.)
HIST
4-Week Session Courses
HIST 104: Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization
HIST 235: Introduction to Archaeology
HIST 420: Teaching the Social Sciences
8-Week Session Courses
HIST 101: Western Civilization Since 1648
HIST 105: Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000
HIST 177: Middle Eastern Civilization
HIST 249: The American Civil War
HIST 255: History of Chicago
HIST 266: Modern Mexico
IDS
4-Week Session Courses
IDS 473: Risk Management and Insurance
8-Week Session Courses
IDS 200: Introduction to Management Information Systems
IDS 270: Business Statistics I
IDS 355: Operations Management
IDS 371: Business Statistics II
IDS 400: Programming for Data Science in Business
IDS 410: Business Database Technology
IDS 476: Business Forecasting Using Time Series Methods
ITAL
8-Week Session Courses
ITAL 280: Italian and Italian Amercian Cinema (Note: Two different sections of this 8-week course will be offered. One section will start 5/13/24 and end 7/5/24. The second section will start on 6/10/24 and end 8/2/24.)
MATH
4-Week Session Courses
MATH 180: Calculus I
MATH 210: Calculus III
MATH 310: Applied Linear Algebra
8-Week Session Courses
MATH 110: College Algebra
MATH 121: Precalculus Mathematics
MATH 125: Elementary Linear Algebra
MATH 165: Calculus for Business
MATH 180: Calculus I
MATH 181: Calculus II
MATH 210: Calculus III
MATH 220: Introduction to Differential Equations
MATH 310: Applied Linear Algebra
MATH 417: Complex Analysis with Applications
PSCH
4-Week Session Courses
PSCH 242: Introduction to Research in Psychology
PSCH 270: Introduction to Psychological and Behavioral Disorders
PSCH 320: Developmental Psychology
PSCH 333: Laboratory in Clinical Psychology
PSCH 352: Cognition and Memory
PSCH 381: Psychology of Interviewing
8-Week Session Courses
PSCH 100: Introduction to Psychology
PSCH 210: Theories of Personality
PSCH 262: Behavioral Neuroscience
PSCH 270: Introduction to Psychological and Behavioral Disorders
PSCH 271: Resilience: The Psychology of Positive Adaptation
PSCH 324: Cultural Psychology
PSCH 343: Statistical Methods in Behavioral Science
RUSS
8-Week Session Courses
RUSS 140: Understanding the Body: Health, Gender, and Disability in Russian Culture (Note: Two different sections of this 8-week course will be offered. One section will start 5/13/24 and end 7/5/24. The second section will start on 6/10/24 and end 8/2/24.)
SOC
4-Week Session Courses
SOC 105: Social Problems
SOC 224: Gender and Society
SOC 225: Racial and Ethnic Groups
8-Week Session Courses
SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 212: Human Sexuality: Social Perspectives
SOC 231: Criminology
SOC 241: Social Inequalities
SOC 426: Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
SPED
4-Week Session Courses
SPED 410: Exceptional Learners
SPED 465: Understanding Students with High Incidence Disabilities
8-Week Session Courses (Note: All SPED courses in the 8-week session begin 6/10/24 and end 7/19/24 [6 weeks long].)
SPED 467: Understanding Students With Low Incidence Disabilities
SPED 482: Collaborating with Families, Community, and Professionals