Take a course online this summer from anywhere to accelerate your graduation, expand your breadth and depth of knowledge, build enduring skills, elevate your GPA, and explore your academic interests.
Gettysburg College summer classes offer a unique blend of academic rigor and flexibility, allowing you to pursue your interests, stay on track for graduation, or discover new areas of study with the convenience of online learning.
Open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors, online summer courses at Gettysburg enable you to take a class in subjects ranging from Anthropology and History to Management and Philosophy taught by our distinguished faculty members.
Summer online courses give students an opportunity to utilize their time outside of the regular academic year to earn extra credit through a hands-on internship or engaging virtual class.
100% Online: Synchronous and asynchronous instruction
Five-week Term: Earn credit at an accelerated pace
Registration Deadline: Starts on March 4 and concludes on May 19
Summer courses begin on Monday, May 20, and end on Friday, June 21. The add/drop period is one week, ending on Friday, May 24. The last day to withdraw from the course is Monday, June 10.
Course credit
Each summer 2024 course is a four-credit hour course currently offered at Gettysburg College. Upon successful completion, students earn 1 unit (equivalent to 4 credits) toward the 32 units required to complete the degree. The course unit and final grade earned will appear on student transcripts.
The benefits of taking an online summer course
The Gettysburg summer experience
At Gettysburg, we tailor our courses to meet the unique needs of our students. Whether you want to discover a new subject, catch up on your studies, or graduate early, our faculty and staff are here to support you.
Even though the classes are online, it doesn’t mean you miss out on engaging conversations and mentorship. Gettysburg’s online summer courses combine interactive synchronous instruction with asynchronous sessions, ensuring you acquire marketable skills and in-depth knowledge.
Taking a summer class is a great way to challenge yourself and get ahead of your studies. After you complete your summer course, you fast-track your graduation by earning 1 unit (4 credits) that can apply to your bachelor’s degree. You may also complete a course for a second major or minor and finish within a four-year academic plan.
Pave your path to career success
During your summer course, our immersive online classroom helps you build strong writing and reasoning skills that are essential for your future graduate studies. You may also utilize your summer to take an internship class to gain professional experience that can pave your path to career success.
Discover and expand your academic inquisitions
Use summer courses to expand your breadth and depth of knowledge in subjects that interest you. Our offerings allow you to engage in stimulating coursework you may not be able to take during a fall or spring semester.
Lighten your course load and prepare for study abroad
Are you taking a challenging course or two during the fall or spring semester? Enrolling in a Gettysburg summer class enables you to complete a program requirement when your academic schedule is lighter. A summer course is especially helpful if you plan to study abroad in the fall through our Global Education program.
Gettysburg’s 100% online summer courses provide flexible study options for students. Note: Online summer courses offered at Gettysburg College include both asynchronous and synchronous instruction.
Online summer courses enrollment requirements
Students currently enrolled at Gettysburg College and returning for the Fall 2024 semester may enroll in one of the online courses. Students placed on academic suspension at the conclusion of the Spring 2024 semester may not earn credit for an online course and are unenrolled prior to May 19, 2024.
Students may enroll in only one Summer 2024 online course.
How Gettysburg students register
Summer course registration for Gettysburg College students begins on Monday, March 4, and concludes on Sunday, May 19.
Be sure to review the eligibility requirements before registering. Search for classes beginning Friday, March 4.
The cost for each course is $3,110.00, with payment due by May 15. If students register after this date, payment is due within 24 hours. The charge for the course is nonrefundable after the add/drop period ends on May 24.
Tuition charges will be posted to Campus Experience within 72 hours of registration. Billing statements will be sent to all of those currently registered for summer by Friday, April 5, and then again during the first week of May.
Students must pay for the course in full to avoid a financial hold, including a transcript hold and course registration hold for the upcoming academic year.
Financial aid for summer courses
Federal Financial Aid for summer courses may be available to Gettysburg College students; however, it is extremely limited. If you are a Gettysburg student and have questions concerning financial aid eligibility, our Financial Aid team is here to help! Contact financial aid to learn more.
Enrich your summer with Gettysburg’s online courses
Embark on a journey of intellectual exploration this summer with Gettysburg College's online courses. Whether you're a current student at Gettysburg or from another college, these courses offer an excellent way to advance your education and make your summer count.
Summer online courses at Gettysburg are five weeks long, from Monday, May 20, to Friday, June 21.
At this time, Gettysburg College summer courses are available for Gettysburg College rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors only.
You can take one class in the summer at Gettysburg College.
Your grade earned through the summer online course will be on your transcript. A strong summer grade can help you raise your overall GPA.
Gettysburg’s online summer courses are only open to current sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Gettysburg College. If you are a current high school student, you may join us through our summer programs.
Available courses summer 2024
Instructor:
Ryan E.
Johnson
Data scientists apply methods from statistics, data analysis, computer science, and machine learning in order to gain insight from data. In Data Science Programming, we focus on developing the programming and machine learning skills necessary to gain such insight. Through experiential learning, we equip students with the fundamental computer problem-solving skills and tools to clean raw data, engineer data features, build statistical and machine learning models, predict unknown values and/or discern patterns, and present data insights.
Instructor:
Divonna
Stebick
Exploration of multiple modes of education that illustrate inequality. Surveys how education affects citizens and communities and the accessibility of various educational systems. Using case studies to explore how education functions systematically and how various educational systems reflect and shape who we are, this course will investigate five models: urban, rural, private, cyber, and magnet. Focuses on research from various fields that details how the achievement gap continues to grow in urban schools, private institutions, and rural schools; specifically, how social class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and different identities both organize and are organized by educational environments and how these affect children, families, schools, and communities.
Instructor:
Erin
Clark
The study of psychological principles related to learning and cognition, and the personal, moral, and social development of the school-aged child. The course also includes discussion of developmentally appropriate instructional practices, students with exceptionalities, and teacher reflection. Prerequisite for other certification coursework.
Instructor:
Lori
Althoff
This course enables the prospective teacher to learn how to coordinate the classroom learning environment to effectively address the diverse needs of students in general classroom settings. The course considers characteristics of students with special needs and the modifications in teaching methods necessary to meet their needs. Classroom management techniques for academic, social, emotional, and cognitive differences are addressed. Students will design activities and respective accommodations for both general education students and students with special
needs. Various assessment techniques will be discussed and developed to evaluate the activities. Specific topics to be addressed include: federal legislation, teaching strategies, team collaboration, special support services, and individual education plans (IEP). Prerequisite: EDUC 201 with a C or higher grade; and MUS_CLAS 149 for Music Education; or permission of the instructor
Instructor:
Matt
Barrett
Course develops students' ability to express themselves in clear, accurate, and thoughtful English prose. Offered regularly. Fulfills first-year writing requirement. Open to first-year students only.
Instructor:
Stephanie A.
Sellers
Interdisciplinary exploration of the pre-Euro-colonial forms of Indigenous writing/communal narratives and the oral tradition and the interrelatedness of these forms, along with the historical, political, and cultural meanings of Native literatures and record-keeping. Emphasis on the power of the story, and the sacredness of Indigenous storytellers and their role in the nation, are central to the course. The course examines the Euro-colonial impacts and disruptions of writing/storytelling practices and how Native Americans respond(ed) to those intrusions. Works of the earliest Native writers post-European arrival, of the Native American Literary Renaissance (1960—70s), and of contemporary Natives are the core of the course. The role of Indian boarding schools, the prevalence of Euro-formed narratives in higher education, perceptions of Native people in Native and non-Native literatures, and the ways Native writers today engage cultural continuance and sovereignty in their works are discussed. Positioning the concepts of “writing” and “mapmaking” from an Indigenous-cultural context is the foundation of our conversations. Course includes readings of Indigenous-centric literary criticism from the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures.
Instructor:
Irene Bramley Beers
Hawkins
Introduction to national and global environmental issues. Students learn the basic concepts of ecology, including population growth models, species interactions, and ecosystem and biosphere processes. Building on this scientific base, students use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze economic, ethical, political, and social aspects of environmental issues. Topics include human population dynamics, air and water pollution, toxic wastes, food production, land use, and energy utilization.
Instructor:
Randall K.
Wilson
Intensive two-week field-based examination of the physical and cultural geography of the Rocky Mountain West. Focusing on the San Juan Mountain Range in Southwest Colorado, students participate in field-based projects to examine major environmental and natural resource management issues from diverse multi-cultural, institutional, and political-economic perspectives. Stops include Boulder, Durango, Telluride, Cortez, Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. Students will visit Mesa Verde National Park, the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, the San Juan National Forest, the Weminuche Wilderness, and historic mining towns. Student will gain a critical place-based understanding of recent efforts to achieve sustainable and socially-just solutions to resource management problems. *Please note that dates differ from the online courses and enrollment requires permission of the instructor, Prof. Randall Wilson (rwilson@gettysburg.edu).
Instructor:
Randall K.
Wilson
Intensive two-week field-based examination of the physical and cultural geography of the Rocky Mountain West. Focusing on the San Juan Mountain Range in Southwest Colorado, students participate in field-based projects to examine major environmental and natural resource management issues from diverse multi-cultural, institutional, and political-economic perspectives. Stops include Boulder, Durango, Telluride, Cortez, Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. Students will visit Mesa Verde National Park, the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, the San Juan National Forest, the Weminuche Wilderness, and historic mining towns. Student will gain a critical place-based understanding of recent efforts to achieve sustainable and socially-just solutions to resource management problems. *Please note that dates differ from the online courses and enrollment requires permission of the instructor, Prof. Randall Wilson (rwilson@gettysburg.edu).
Instructor:
William D.
Bowman
Historical change in the global setting, from the ascendancy of the pre-First World War empires to the present. Topics include technological development, imperialism and decolonization, world wars, political revolutions, social and economic forces, and the reshaping of thought and the arts in the diverse cultures of humanity. Offered annually.
Instructor:
Dina
Lowy
Study of Chinese history since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, with emphasis on transformations of the nineteenth century and the Nationalist and Communist revolutions. Offered annually.
Instructor:
Stephanie A.
Sellers
Interdisciplinary exploration of the history, cultural meanings, and contemporary practices of team sports and individual athletes of Indigenous nations of the Americas before and after European contact. The course examines the historic disruptions of these practices by European colonization and how Native Americans respond(ed) to those intrusions. Issues of Indigenous sports mascots, colonial narratives of Native peoples in relation to their physicality and identities, the role of sports at Indian boarding schools, the prevalence of Euro-formed historic narratives of Natives in media today, and critical Indigenous actors in the world of sports are discussed.
Instructor:
Vernon W.
Cisney
Course will explore the figure of the Devil through various historical, religious, philosophical, literary, and cinematic lenses. He is known by a number of different names: Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Satan, Prince of Darkness, Prince of this World, or Lord of the Flies; but all of these are proper names and titles for that elusive figure most prominently known as the embodiment of pure evil and rebellion in Christianity. Despite the fact that very little is said about this figure in the Bible, the Devil has, throughout history, served as an abstract canvas onto which human beings have projected their greatest fears and adversarial forces, be they political, natural, epidemiological, religious, or moral. As a result, an entire mythos has grown around this elusive figure, complete with the allure and romance that accompanies characters associated with rebellion and transgression.
Instructor:
Robert
Mixell
Differential and integral calculus of one real variable. Topics include introduction to limits, continuity, the derivative, the definite integral. Applications are drawn from the natural and social sciences. No prior experience with calculus is assumed. Students who have received credit for Mathematics 105-106 cannot also receive credit for Mathematics 111. No prerequisites.
Instructor:
Kyle
Weary
Hailed as the TIMES magazine 2023 Person of the Year, Taylor Swift has been at the forefront of pop culture for years. While her name itself brings both appeal and aversions, what really shines through the star is her songwriting. This course will spend time on each one of her ten albums diving into the facets of her music, lyrics, the phenomena of the “Swifties” and the impact of Taylor Swift all over the world. Considering a broad range of topics, including femininity and gender; the use of social media and public opinion; politics and social impact; lyricism, fiction and non-fiction; American nationalism and whiteness, family and feuds. Ultimately, we will look at how the evolution of Swift’s songwriting and what that says about her own personal growth.
Instructor:
William
O'Hara
Survey of technological, sociological, and artistic issues related to games and game music. Students will critically examine notions of play; explore the evolution of video game soundtracks; analyze how music operates in games; explore and critique "music games" such as Guitar Hero; and explore music and sound in game-related cultural phenomena (such as video game soundtrack concerts and tribute bands). The course includes a substantial multimedia component. Offered occasionally.
Instructor:
Vernon W.
Cisney
Study of selected philosophical issues that deal with such themes as knowledge, happiness, justice, death, and the nature of reality. The goals are to develop an ability to read philosophical texts with understanding and, through analysis and reflection, to form arguments regarding philosophical issues.
Instructor:
Bjorn
Freter
Philosophical study of love, relationships, marriage, sex, sexuality, sexual identity, and sexual representation. Philosophers have deeply explored knowledge, existence, politics and ethics. Yet love and sex, which for most of us are central features of a good life, have received far less attention. In this course material from philosophers who have thought about love and sex will be explored along with contemporary struggles around sexuality, sexual identity, sexual violence, love, romance, intimate relationships, and marriage. PHIL 125 and WGS 125 are cross-listed.
Instructor:
Nathifa
Greene
Introduction to bioethics through the study of specific cases and problems. Students will be introduced to major principles in contemporary Western bioethical thought and practice, including concepts of personhood, consent, autonomy, justice, altruism, truth-telling and caring, as well as strategies that promote ethical decision-making. Students will also examine bioethical theories critically and comparatively, while considering ethical dilemmas in various domains of medical research and practice.
Instructor:
Steve
Gimbel
An examination of philosophical questions raised by humor. Humor is a ubiquitous human behavior, yet has long been denigrated as not a serious subject of intellectual inquiry. This is mistaken. In closely examining humor, we can raise traditional human questions and see philosophical methodology in action.
Instructor:
Katherine W.
Delaney
Introduction to basic scientific logic, facts, theories, and principles of psychology, including topics such as human motivation, learning, emotion, perception, thought, intelligence, and personality.
Instructor:
Brian P.
Meier
Review of current psychological theory and research in social psychology. Topics include attitude and behavior change, conformity, attraction, stereotypes, helping behavior, aggression, and other aspects of social interaction. Prerequisite: Psychology 101.
Instructor:
Allison
Yurasek
Introduction to psychopathology, with particular attention to conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues. Approaches to defining, assessing, and treating adult mental disorders are discussed and evaluated in light of current empirical evidence. Prerequisite: Psychology 101
Instructor:
Brian P.
Meier
Course will provide an introduction to how biological, psychological, and social factors influences health and illness prevention. The course broadly focuses on health beliefs and behavioral change. Sample topics include stress, nutrition, weight control, exercise, addiction, pain management, psychoimmunology, and healthcare accessibility. Prerequisite: PSYCH 101
Instructor:
Kathy R.
Berenson
This class is an introduction to the fields of clinical/counseling psychology, especially the study and practice of psychotherapy. The course covers major approaches and ethical/professional issues in these fields, including their increasing emphasis on empirical validation and cultural context, with attention to evidence, theory, and history. The course includes exams, discussions, and projects where you will demonstrate your understanding of the assigned reading, video, and lecture material. Role-play and self-reflection are also essential components of this course, given that they are essential training and professional development tools in the clinical/counseling fields. Prerequisite: PSYCH 101.
Instructor:
Jennifer
Dumont
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. Enrollment based on Spanish placement test results, except for those who have had one year or less of high school Spanish.
Instructor:
Maria
Perez
Fundamentals of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish.
For students who have completed Spanish 101 or its equivalent, or based on Spanish placement test results.
Instructor:
Richard H
Sautter
Overview of theatre, including historical background, literary works, technical aspects, and performance techniques. The theatre of today is studied in relation to its predecessors and in terms of its modern forms in cinema and television. Students read texts and analyze methods used in bringing those works into production. Field trips offer opportunities to critique performances. Open to first- and second-year students only.
