Most courses meet EMU Core requirements. If applicable, courses will indicate: CA Creative Arts, CC Cross-Cultural, CL Community Learning, HL History/Literature, LW Life Wellness, NS Natural Science, SB Social/Behavioral Science, and SS Senior Seminar
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Federal financial aid is available in the summer to EMU students taking at least 6 credit hours. The EMU financial assistance office will notify students registered for 6 credits or more of their summer financial aid eligibility by email.
Student is responsible to contact instructor to obtain permission to enroll and to arrange dates/times for the course. Completion is required by August 18, 2023 or as designated by the instructor and approved by the Registrar’s Office.
Core: CL
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Work experience designed to integrate practice and theory and to give accounting majors insight
into current policies, procedures and problems in all types of organizations. Frequent
consultation with and written reports to the faculty advisor guide the student’s experience.
Travel and personal expenses are the student’s responsibility. Can be done during
the summer. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This is highly recommended for accounting
majors. Prerequisite: admission to the department and junior or senior standing; application
at least
one semester in advance; and a department GPA of at least 2.7.
Core: CL
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Work experience designed to integrate practice and theory, to give business administration majors insight into current policies, procedure, and problems in all types of organizations. Frequent consultation with and written reports to the faculty advisor guide the student’s experience. Travel and personal expenses are the student’s responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This is highly recommended for business administration majors. Prerequisite: Admission to the department, junior or senior standing, and a department GPA of at least 2.7. The internship director must approve the internship before it commences.
Core: CL
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Work experience designed to integrate practice and theory, to give economics majors insight into current policies, procedure, and problems in all types of organizations. Frequent consultation with and written reports to the faculty advisor guide the student’s experience. Travel and personal expenses are the student’s responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This is highly recommended for economics majors. Prerequisite: Admission to the department, junior or senior standing, and a department GPA of at least 2.7. The internship director must approve the internship before it commences.
Dates: May 8 - August 18 (asynchronous, P-12 school setting)
Instructor: Carrie Martell
Additional Course Fee: $55
This professional field experience is designed to give students teaching experience in a concentrated 2 1/2-week (6-8 hours a day) placement in a full time educational setting that provides services for students with disabilities accessing the general curriculum in a public or accredited nonpublic school. The course allows students to experience the demands and changing nature of the learning environment from their morning arrival to the end of the work day.
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Core: CL
Faculty: Jim Leaman
This is an opportunity for students to explore leadership and gain limited practical
experience in an organizational or team setting. Students will log at least 40 contact
hours and complete some reflective written reports. Travel and personal expenses are
the student’s responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Graded on a Pass/Fail
basis. Prerequisites: Sophomore+ status and EMU Cum. GPA 2.0 or better. (must apply
one month in advance to secure placement.
Core: CL
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Work experience designed to integrate practice and theory, to give LEAD majors insight into current policies, procedure, and problems in all types of organizations. Frequent consultation with and written reports to the faculty advisor guide the student’s experience. Travel and personal expenses are the student’s responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This is highly recommended for LEAD majors. Prerequisite: Admission to the department, junior or senior standing, and a department GPA of at least 2.7. The internship director must approve the internship before it commences.
Core: CL
Instructor: Jim Leaman
Work experience designed to integrate practice and theory, to give marketing majors insight into current policies, procedure, and problems in all types of organizations. Frequent consultation with and written reports to the faculty advisor guide the student’s experience. Travel and personal expenses are the student’s responsibility. Can be taken during the summer. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This is highly recommended for marketing majors. Prerequisite: Admission to the department, junior or senior standing, and a department GPA of at least 2.7. The internship director must approve the internship before it commences.
Dates: May 8 - August 18 (asynchronous, launch meeting on May 8, 2 p.m. via Zoom)
Instructor: Roger Mast
This practicum provides an on-the-job learning experience for students. A supervised placement is secured in a coaching role in a local youth sports or educational program. This course is not available for first-year students.
Core: CL
Dates: May 8 - August 18 (asynchronous, launch meeting on May 8, 12 p.m. via Zoom)
Instructor: Carleen Overacker
This individualized course provides exposure for kinesiology and exercise science minors in professional adult fitness or sports medicine settings. A volunteer position is secured in a related agency for fifty clock-hours of involvement.
Core: CL
Instructor: Joohyun Lee
This is an opportunity for majors to explore involvement in the fields of recreation leadership and sport promotion, youth ministry, or kinesiology and sport science. A seasonal-level employment or volunteer position will be secured, with a suggested clock-hour involvement of fifty hours. Options include working in a university or high school athletic department, counseling at a summer camp, high school or university athletic training operation, or a physical therapy or adult fitness facility. Assignments will include several reflective exercises asking the student to explore characteristics of the profession and personal suitability to the field.
Core: CL
Instructor: Joohyun Lee
This course is the culminating professional development experience for recreation leadership and sport studies majors. The involvement consists of a pre-professional or entry-level position in a related organization or agency, preferably emphasizing the student’s specialty or concentration. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 weeks and 200 hours. Assignments include a personal journal, a time log, and various reflective pieces asking the student to apply theory to practice, and evaluate personal suitability to the field. An on-site supervisor conducts monitoring and evaluation, with an EMU faculty assigned as institutional liaison. Prerequisites: Senior status and departmental approval.
Core: CL
Dates: May 8 - August 18 (no synchronous meetings planned)
Instructor: Jenni Holsinger
Experience in the practice of sociological analysis or social research outside the classroom. Corequisite or prerequisite: SOC 392.
Core: CL
Dates: May 10 - August 20 (no synchronous meetings planned)
Instructor: Cyndi Gusler
Provides students with an opportunity to integrate their and practice by working in a professional art/media/design-related environment. Student will work on site at a professional business that matches the student's interests and major. Students will learn professional practices as they experience real world work. Consultation with and reporting to the faculty advisor guide the student's experience. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Graduate programs at EMU also offer summer courses. See programs with summer courses below.
Summer Peacebuilding Institute
Eastern Mennonite Seminary
MA in Education
While every effort is made to insure that the information contained in this schedule is correct, the university reserves the right to make changes in the courses offered and in other information contained herein. The university reserves the right to cancel courses or programs or to combine class sections when insufficient enrollment occurs.