This summer, Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to offer introductory Greek and Hebrew intensive language courses online. These eight-week summer courses are open to both incoming degree students and non-degree students. They cover the equivalent of a full year of language study in the span of 8 weeks and count for six credits. Summer language will meet daily, Monday through Friday from June 24–August 16, 2024. Greek and Hebrew will be offered in both online and hybrid formats that will include self-paced, independent work integrated with daily, live small group sessions that are punctuated by weekly enrichment gatherings with the whole class online. Learn More
Dates: June 24–August 16
Cost for external (non-degree) students: $4,830 for 6 semester credits
Application Deadline: May 24 (rolling admission, upon availability)
Requirements: Applicants must have completed at least one year of bachelor’s level coursework at the time of admission, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. Unofficial copies of your transcript(s) showing undergraduate and any relevant graduate coursework completed for credit, must be uploaded directly to the online application.
White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, Middle East, or North Africa.Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southest Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), who maintains cultural identification though tribal affiliation or community attachment.Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
English Requirements
Small group precept meetings are an essential part of this course. For your participation in precept, you will be expected to contribute actively to the discussion in English, bringing questions from your independent work and engaging with the points raised by your classmates. The format requires a high level of fluency in conversational English.
Expectations for Intensive Language Study
Though flexible, the format for summer language is intensive. You should expect the course to occupy approximately the same amount of time as a full-time job.
A daily rhythm might look something like this:
System Requirements and Recommendations
Supported Operating Systems:
*We recommend a computer rather than a mobile device. Exclusively using a phone or mobile device will not provide the full experience of the course.
**You’ll have access to Brightspace, our Learning Management System, online. While there is Brightspace app, we recommend using Brightspace in the browser instead of the app.
Internet Browser:
Time Zone and Synchronous Requirements
This course includes engagement in real time most days. Please indicate the location/time zone where you will be located when you connect to these live small group precept meetings on Zoom. While it may be impossible to accommodate all time zones, once all students have been admitted, we will set precept groups and meeting times considering locations, aiming to provide a consistent meeting time between the hours of 7am and 10pm in your local time. Please tell us your time zone below using the UTC offset time format (ex. Pacific Daylight Time, UTC -7). You can find a list of all time zones with the UTC offset time format here.