What are intensive language courses and how do they work?
New Intensive Language Courses in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian will be offered beginning in Fall 2010. ARA, CHI, JPN, and RUS 151 are offered in the fall and cover the material/skills from the old 101-102 courses. ARA, CHI, JPN, and RUS 152 are offered in the spring and cover the material/skills from the old 103-201 courses. Each of these courses meets Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday for 80 minutes each class day. Each of these courses has a conversation hour (50 minutes) on Wednesday. Each of these courses carries TWO (2) units of academic credit. Starting in Fall 2011, intensive second-year classes will be offered for these languages as well: ARA, CHI, JPN and RUS 251 will be offered in the fall semesters, while ARA, CHI, JPN and RUS 252 will be offered in the Spring Semesters.