Earn your degree faster!

Take advantage of your winter break with accelerated courses 
at Iowa. As an undergrad, you can earn up to three credit hours 
to help you catch up on a class you missed, get a head start on the spring semester, or stay on track for graduation.

Course Dates: Dec. 20, 2021–Jan. 14, 2022

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our four-week Winter Session!

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Accelerate Your Success
Iowa’s Winter Session offers semester-length courses in a condensed format—giving students the ability to earn credit towards their degree in four intensive weeks.

Winter Session Courses
Students may take a combination of courses within the College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pomerantz Career Center, and College Success Initiatives to meet the 3 credit-hour maximum for Winter Session. Unless noted, all classes are offered via distance learning. Click here for a full listing of Winter Session Courses.

AMST/GWSS/SPST 1074 Inequality in American Sport (3 s.h.)
General Education: Diversity and Inclusion
Join the debate surrounding issues of inequality in sport. Students will engage with a series of studies to examine the meaning of sport in the United States with a focus on the dynamics of inequality—including race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and physical ability/disability.

ARTS/UICB 4415 Calligraphy I: Foundational Hands (3 s.h.) Face-to-Face
General Education: Engineering Be Creative
Foundational Hands is the classic introduction to calligraphy and teaches fundamental calligraphic skills. Students will complete two broadsides, a book and explore other lettering applications.

CCP 3102 Job Search Essentials (1 s.h.)
Learn essential skills for finding full-time employment. Topics include creating and polishing a résumé, techniques for interviewing and networking, and developing a personal job search plan.

CCP 3103 MoneyWise: Basics of Personal Finance (1 s.h.)
Understand the basics of personal finance for success at work and in life; savings, debt, mortgages, loans, employer benefits, insurance and student loans, and investment basics (e.g., stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401Ks, IRAs).

CCP 3105 Transitioning from Campus to the Workplace (1 s.h.)
This course will help you develop essential skills for transitioning from college life to a successful career. Topics include networking, professionalism, workplace communication, managing personal image, and financial planning.

CSI 1213 Special Topics: Media and Identity for Success in Life (1 s.h.)
This course explores how entertainment and social media can influence college students as they negotiate their current and future identities.

EDTL 4900 Foundations of Special Education (3 s.h.)
General Education: Diversity and Inclusion
Students with disabilities, gifted and talented; strategies for effective treatment, collaboration between regular and special education teachers; remediation of academic, behavioral, social problems.

ENGL 1200 Interpretation of Literature (3 s.h.)
General Education: Interpretation of Literature
How have writers used different forms to think about our relation to others, our history, our community, and our obligations? This course will address these questions through the exploration of literature as a guide to our past and our present.

HHP 1100 Human Anatomy (3 s.h.) Face-to-Face
General Education: Natural Sciences (without lab) 
Understand the major systems of the body and how they interact with each other. Students will learn how body parts look, how they’re put together, how their structures relate to function, and how structures adapt to change.

ITAL 2770 The Mafia and the Movies (3 s.h.)
General Education: International and Global Issues 
Hollywood has an enduring fascination with mobsters. Over the last fifty years, successful movies by Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, and Martin Scorsese have contributed to shape the myth of the Mafia and keep it alive in the American imaginary. This course will explore this myth and re-discuss its function through a selection of American and Italian films. The course is taught in English.

MATH 2550 Engineering Math III: Matrix Algebra (2 s.h.)
Students will focus on specific topics including operations on matrices, the use of matrix in solving systems of linear equations and evaluating determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, the diagonalization of matrices, and an introduction to subspaces of Euclidean space.

MATH 2560 Engineering Math IV: Differential Equations (3 s.h.) 
This course covers basic theory and methods of solution for linear differential equations along with the systems of linear differential equations. Laplace transforms are among the many tools that will be introduced for the solution of these linear differential equations.

MUS 1303 History of Popular Music: Roots, Rock, and Rap (3 s.h.)
General Education: Historical Perspectives
Historical narrative of popular music; focus on understanding and analyzing music of past and present in relation to major issues central to popular culture and society; production, dissemination, and reception of popular music; interpretation of ways in which music forms individual and collective identities and how contemporary musical experiences are shaped by historical processes.

PSY 2401 Introduction to Developmental Science (3 s.h.)
General Education: Social Sciences 
Challenge yourself to ask “how” rather than “when” childhood development occurs. Using contemporary research, students will uncover the multitude of factors that drive biological and socio-economic development.

RCE 2081 Making a Vocational-Educational Choice (2, 3 s.h.) 
The first half of this course is designed to assist students wanting to identify their interests, skills, and values in order to target possible majors of interest and begin exploring career opportunities. The second half of this course equips students with the tools and skills necessary to land a full-time position or an internship.

RCE 4140 Foundations of Leadership (3 s.h.) 
Preparation to become effective employees and leaders; emphasis on leadership roles in clinical and other human service or health care settings; how leadership transcends job title associated with high work performance; experiential activities that illustrate key didactic concepts and didactic lecture review, written assignments, experiential assignment, in-depth discussions illustrating key concepts.

SOC 2710 The American Family (3 s.h.)
General Education: Values and Culture
This course studies American families from a sociological perspective and how American families have changed over time. Students will also develop an understanding of the theories and methods employed by sociologists to examine issues related to the family and examine specific aspects of family life including cohabitation, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and work-family conflict.

SRM 1045 Diversity/Inclusion in Healthy Living (3 s.h.)
General Education: Diversity and Inclusion
Personal health is an individual responsibility and a cultural change perspective. Students will observe how their health is impacted by a changing world and how to develop their own health priorities amidst issues of diversity in their community.

Explore Your Interests or Gain New Skills
Choose from general education courses designed for personal exploration along with career-specific courses designed for professional development to help you prepare for what’s next after graduation.

Get Personalized Attention
With smaller-sized courses, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with your instructor and have the freedom to collaborate and build connections with your peers.