2024 Summer Course List

Check below to see what undergraduate courses are planned this summer. This list is subject to change.

Full details about the scheduled meeting days/times and instructional method for summer courses can be found by checking the course schedule. The schedule also includes graduate courses (500-level and above).

  • 4-Week Session Courses: MAY 13 – JUNE 7, 2024
  • 8-Week Session Courses: JUNE 10 – AUGUST 2, 2024

+ACCOUNTING

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 435 Auditing
ACTG 445: Federal Income Tax I
ACTG 470: Ethical Environment of Business
ACTG 474: Accounting Information Systems
ACTG 484: International Accounting

+ANTHROPOLOGY

4-Week Session Courses

ANTH 255: Introduction to Middle East and Muslim Feminisms

8-Week Session Courses

ANTH 102: Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 105: Human Evolution
ANTH 424: Violence

+ARABIC

8-Week Session Courses

ARAB 115: Intensive Elementary Arabic (Note: This course will start 5/13/24 and end 7/5/24.)

+ART

8-Week Session Courses

ART 280: Topics in Color: Collab Printmaking Print Shop

+ART HISTORY

8-Week Session Courses

AH 100: Introduction to Art and Art History
AH 160: Trends in International Contemporary Art Since 1960
AH 207: Topics in Architecture, Art, and Design

+BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

4-Week Session Courses

BIOS 331: General Ecology Laboratory
BIOS 336: Animal Behavior Laboratory
BIOS 343: Animal Physiological Systems
BIOS 365: Human Ecological 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

+BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

4-Week Session Courses

BME 339: Biostatistics I
BME 494: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering IV

+BLACK STUDIES

4-Week Session Courses

BLST 101: Introduction to Black Diaspora Studies
BLST 103: Black Politics and Culture in the United States
BLST 110: Introduction to African American Literature, 1760-1910
BLST 225: Racial and Ethnic Groups

+BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

4-Week Session Courses

BA 200: Business Communication

8-Week Session Courses

BA 200: Business Communication
BA 420: Professional Presence

+CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

8-Week Session Courses

CHE 312: Transport Phenomena II
CHE 313: Transport Phenomena III

+CHEMISTRY

4-Week Session Courses

CHEM 101: Preparatory Chemistry

8-Week Session Courses

CHEM 122: Matter and Energy
CHEM 123: Foundations of Chemical Inquiry I
CHEM 124: Chemical Dynamics
CHEM 125: Foundations of Chemical Inquiry II
CHEM 222: Analytical Chemistry
CHEM 232: Structure and Function
CHEM 233: Synthesis Techniques Laboratory
CHEM 234: Chemical Synthesis
CHEM 343: Physical Chemistry Laboratory

+CIVIL, MATERIALS, & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

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

+COMMUNICATION

4-Week Session Courses

COMM 100: Fundamentals of Human Communication
COMM 101: Introduction to Communication
COMM 102: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
COMM 103: Introduction to Media
COMM 216: Digital Journalism
COMM 220: Social Media and Marketing
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)
COMM 493: Communication and Social Networks

+COMPUTER SCIENCE

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 111: Program Design I
CS 151: Mathematical Foundations of Computing
CS 211: Programming Practicum
CS 251: Data Structures
CS 401: Computer Algorithms I
CS 411: Artificial Intelligence I
CS 480: Database Systems
CS 499: Professional Development Seminar

+CRIMINOLOGY, LAW & JUSTICE

4-Week Session Courses

CLJ 101: Introduction to Criminology, Law, and Justice
CLJ 262: Research Methods II

8-Week Session Courses

CLJ 101: Introduction to Criminology, Law, and Justice
CLJ 200: Law and Society
CLJ 220: Criminology
CLJ 356: Community Corrections and Reentry
CLJ 423: Violence

+CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION

4-Week Session Courses

CI 414: Middle and High School Literacy
CI 464: Bilingualism and Literacy in a Second Language
CI 472: Language Proficiency Assessment and ESL Instruction

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 429: Secondary Science Education in Urban Settings
CI 452: Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media
CI 481: Foundation and Current Issues in Educating English Language Learners
CI 482: Assessment and Instruction: A Multilingual/Multicultural Perspective

+EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

8-Week Session Courses

EAES 101: Global Environmental Change

+ECONOMICS

8-Week Session Courses

ECON 120: Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 121: Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 220: Microeconomics: Theory and Applications
ECON 221: Macroeconomics in the World Economy: Theory and Applications
ECON 300: Econometrics
ECON 333: International Economics
ECON 481: Mathematical Methods for Economics
ECON 482: Probability and Statistics for Econometrics

+EDUCATION

4-Week Session Courses

ED 205: Introduction to Race, Ethnicity, and Education
ED 252: Contemporary Controversies in U.S. Schools
ED 307: Nature and Practices of Natural Sciences
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

+EDUCATIONAL POLICY STUDIES

8-Week Session Courses (Note: All EDPS courses in the 8-week session begin 6/10/24 and end 7/19/24 [6 weeks long].)

EDPS 453: Topics in Educational Policy Studies
EDPS 470: Collective Bargaining Practice and Policy in K-12 and Higher Education

+EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

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 383: Critical Perspectives in Latinx Human Development
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

+ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING

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

+ENGLISH

4-Week Session Courses

ENGL 118: Introduction to African American Literature, 1760-1910
ENGL 135: Understanding Popular Genres and Culture
ENGL 208: English Studies I: Beginnings to the 17th Century

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 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

+FINANCE

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

+GENDER & WOMEN’S STUDIES

4-Week Session Courses

GWS 224: Gender and Society
GWS 255: Introduction to Middle East and Muslim Feminisms

+GERMANIC STUDIES

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.)

+GLOBAL ASIAN STUDIES

4-Week Session Courses

GLAS 100: Introduction to Global Asian Studies
GLAS 255: Introduction to Middle East and Muslim Feminisms

+HISTORY

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

+HUMAN NUTRITION

8-Week Session Courses

HN 110: Foods

+INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

8-Week Session Courses

IE 342: Probability and Statistics for Engineers

+INFORMATION & DECISION SCIENCES

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

+INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

8-Week Session Courses

INST 105: Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000
INST 221: Macroeconomics in the World Economy: Theory and Applications
INST 333: International Economics

+ITALIAN

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.)

+KINESIOLOGY

4-Week Session Courses

KN 337: Psychology of Injury and Recovery

8-Week Session Courses

KN 150: The Healthy Human
KN 253: Human Anatomy and Physiology I (Note: This is an asynchronous online course.)
KN 254: Human Anatomy and Physiology II (Note: This is an asynchronous online course.)
KN 352: Physiology of Exercise

+LATIN AMERICAN & LATINO STUDIES

4-Week Session Courses

LALS 102: Introduction to Latino Studies
LALS 225: Racial and Ethnic Groups

8-Week Session Courses

LALS 101: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LALS 127: Latin American Music
LALS 266: Modern Mexico

+LINGUISTICS

8-Week Session Courses

LING 320: Linguistics and Speech-Language Pathology

+MANAGEMENT

8-Week Session Courses

MGMT 340: Introduction to Organizations
MGMT 350: Business and Its External Environment
MGMT 453: Human Resource Management
MGMT 495: Competitive Strategy

+MARKETING

8-Week Session Courses

MKTG 360: Introduction to Marketing
MKTG 461: Consumer Market Behavior
MKTG 462: Marketing Research
MKTG 465: Strategic Marketing Management
MKTG 469: Global Marketing

+MATHEMATICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

8-Week Session Courses

MCS 260: Introduction to Computer Science
MCS 320: Introduction to Symbolic Computation
MCS 401: Computer Algorithms I
MCS 471: Numerical Analysis

+MATHEMATICS

4-Week Session Courses

MATH 180: Calculus I
MATH 210: Calculus III
MATH 310: Intermediate Financial Accounting I

8-Week Session Courses

MATH 110: College Algebra
MATH 121: Precalculus Mathematics
MATH 125: Elementary Linear Algebra
MATH 160: Finite Mathematics for Business
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

+MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

8-Week Session Courses

ME 205: Introduction to Thermodynamics
ME 210: Engineering Dynamics
ME 347: Introduction to Computer-Aided Design
ME 428: Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering

+MOVING IMAGE ARTS

8-Week Session Courses

MOVI 132: Understanding Film
MOVI 280: Italian and Italian American Cinema

+MUSIC

8-Week Session Courses

MUS 114: Jazz History
MUS 118: American Popular Music since 1850

8-Week Session Courses

MUS 100: Introduction to Music I
MUS 127: Latin American Music

+PHILOSOPHY

8-Week Session Courses

PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 101: Critical and Analytical Reasoning
PHIL 102: Introductory Logic
PHIL 115: Death
PHIL 116: Biomedical Ethics

+PHYSICS

8-Week Session Courses

PHYS 100: Preparatory Physics
PHYS 131: Introductory Physics for Life Sciences I
PHYS 132: Introductory Physics for Life Sciences II
PHYS 141: General Physics I (Mechanics)
PHYS 142: General Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism)

+POLISH

8-Week Session Courses

POL 101: Elementary Polish I

+POLITICAL SCIENCE

4-Week Session Courses

POLS 101: Introduction to American Government and Politics
POLS 112: Black Politics and Culture in the United States
POLS 353: Constitutional Law

+PSYCHOLOGY

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
PSCH 382: Psychological Interventions

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

+PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

8-Week Session Courses

PA 401: Foundations of Public Service
PA 402: Principles of Data Analysis
PA 431: Civic Technology

+PUBLIC HEALTH

8-Week Session Courses

PUBH 100: Health and the Public
PUBH 110: Public Health and Global Societies
PUBH 120: Public Health and the Study of Disease and Epidemics
PUBH 393: Public Health Fieldwork

+PUBLIC POLICY

4-Week Session Courses

PPOL 100: Individual Action and Democratic Citizenship

8-Week Session Courses

PPOL 240: Environmental Policy

+RELIGIOUS STUDIES

8-Week Session Courses

RELS 177: Middle Eastern Civilization

+RUSSIAN

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.)

+SOCIAL JUSTICE

4-Week Session Courses

SJ 101: Introduction to Social Justice: Stories and Struggles

+SOCIOLOGY

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

+SPANISH

8-Week Session Courses

SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 103: Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 104: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 114: Spanish for Heritage Speakers II

+SPECIAL EDUCATION

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

+STATISTICS

8-Week Session Courses

STAT 101: Introduction to Statistics
STAT 381: Applied Statistical Methods I
STAT 401: Introduction to Probability
STAT 481: Applied Statistical Methods II

+URBAN PLANNING & POLICY

4-Week Session Courses

UPP 493: Topics in Urban Planning and Policy: Intro to Bike Planning

+URBAN STUDIES

8-Week Session Courses

US 202: Social Justice and the City