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Summer Session Registration for Incoming Students

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As you wrap up your current semester and finalize your plans for summer, we hope you take the time to consider jump-starting your collegiate experience with a summer session through LMU.

Online and in-person summer courses are now available to incoming first-year and transfer undergraduates. This is a great opportunity to begin your journey as an LMU Lion ahead of the fall semester - get a head start on your core requirements and explore LMU's Jesuit education. 

Complete a Summer 2024 Course Request

Level Up in Summer Session Courses

You may take any courses on the summer schedule for which you meet all course requirements, however we recommend you get a head start on your core requirements, including courses like First-Year Seminar, Math or Rhetorical Arts. These course types are part of the 'Foundations' Core requirements you will take in your first two years at LMU. You also have a limited number of 'Explorations' core course options available to you this summer. 'Explorations' courses are typically taken in students' second and third years, but can be taken this summer if all requirements are met.

How Will a Summer Course Impact My Fall Schedule?

We recommend you use summer session to get ahead. University core requirements or lower-level major requirements that you may normally take in your first semester can often be scheduled in summer, freeing up additional space in your fall schedule for other course opportunities. It can also help you get ahead in credits or requirements to help make room in your schedule to study abroad in a later semester. If you plan to take a summer course, please discuss it with your fall registration advisor to ensure they are aware of your plans and can help you organize a fall schedule accordingly. 

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Are 2024 Summer Courses Online?

This summer, LMU is offering a mix of online, in-person, and hybrid courses. Please check the schedule closely to confirm the modality before requesting registration for a course. We recommend incoming students limit their summer course requests to online courses only, unless they live in the immediate area. No on-campus housing will be available to incoming students taking summer session courses and the university does charge for parking in the summer.

Paying for Summer Session

Summer courses are offered at $1,802 per unit, with the majority of classes at 3- or 4-units. This summer, incoming first-year and transfer students are also eligible to receive one-time scholarship funding to help with the cost of attending summer session at LMU. Scholarships will be awarded based on the number of units an incoming student elects to take; $2,800, $2,100, $1,400, and $700 scholarships for 4-unit, 3-unit, 2-unit, and 1-unit courses, respectively.

Please see the Tuition and Fees table below for additional information on summer costs.

Refunds for incoming first-year and transfer students follow the refund policy established for all returning LMU degree candidates.

Summer 2024 Costs + Scholarships for First-Year and Transfer Students:

Units Tuition Scholarship Amount Owed*
1-Unit Course $1,802

$700

 $1,102
2-Unit Course $3,604 $1,400 $2,204
3-Unit Course $5,406 $2,100 $3,306
4-Unit Course $7,208

$2,800

 $4,408


*Please note: Additional fees apply. For more information about Summer Session tuition and fees, please visit Student Financial Services. These are one-time scholarships available only to first-time, incoming students to the university for summer 2024. 

Summer 2024 Information

Summer school at LMU consists of two consecutive 6-week sessions, each the equivalent of a 16-week semester. Final exams are included within each six-week session. The sessions do not overlap and students are welcome to attend both sessions. Because of the compressed nature of the classes, students are limited to 8 semester hours (also known as units or credit hours) per session.

The class list we have curated includes selections that we believe are best suited for incoming new students. However, you have the option to choose any course for which you meet the prerequisites by selecting "other" on your course registration request form.

Please note, the classes recommended below are open to both incoming and continuing students, so we encourage you to request enrollment early for the best chance at being placed in your course of choice. 

As a reminder, summer 2024 session dates are as follows:

Session I: May 13, 2024 - June 21, 2024

Session II: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024

Select Your Core Interests

Select a topic below to view available session II courses in that category.

First-Year Seminar Rhetorical Arts Quantitative Reasoning

 

 

Understanding Human Behavior Theological Inquiry Studies in American Diversity Career Readiness

 

 

First-Year Seminar

First Year Seminar (FFYS), which is taken in the first year, introduces students to intellectual rigor, critical thinking, and basic writing skills while laying the foundation for a life-long commitment to learning. 

Please Note: If you plan to join the Honors, First To Go, or ACCESS learning communities, you should not take a First Year Seminar (FFYS) in the summer as those communities require a specific FFYS course in the fall. 

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
    Times: 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20022

    More About First Year Seminar:

    The Core experience begins with a First Year Seminar (FYS) that introduces students to the spirit of academic excellence and intellectual rigor at LMU. Aimed at improving students’ written and oral communication skills, the FYS invites students to engage critically and reflectively with scholarly discourse in a variety of formats: written, oral, and visual. The topic for each section of the FYS is chosen and developed by its instructor within one of seven broad themes including:

    1. Faith and Reason
    2. Ethics and Justice
    3. Virtue and Justice
    4. Culture, Art, and Society
    5. Power and Privilege
    6. Globalization
    7. Science, Nature, and Society.

     

Rhetorical Arts

Taken in the first year, Rhetorical Arts (RHET) teaches an integrated set of skills, competencies, and knowledge that enables students to engage in public debate with persuasive force and stylistic excellence.

Note: If you plan to join the Honors or First To Go learning communities, you should not take Rhetorical Arts in the summer as those communities require a specific RHET course during the academic year. 

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
    Time: 8 - 11:45 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20050

    This course teaches an integrated set of skills, competencies, and knowledge that enables students to engage in public debate with persuasive force and stylistic excellence. It emphasizes such rhetorical concepts as invention, arrangement, claims with supporting evidence, exigency and audience. Emerging out of Renaissance humanism, Jesuit rhetoric (or Eloquentia Perfecta) developed the classical ideal of the good person writing and speaking well for the public good and promotes the teaching of eloquence combined with erudition and moral discernment. Developing this tradition in light of modern composition study and communication theory, the Rhetorical Arts course complements the other Foundation courses with topics such as ethics and communication, virtue and authority, knowledge and social obligation.

    The objectives of the Rhetorical Arts course are to foster critical thinking, moral reflection, and articulate expression. Ultimately, the Rhetorical Arts course furthers the development of essential skills in written and oral communication and information literacy, as well as providing opportunities for active engagement with essential components of the Jesuit and Marymount educational traditions.
    More specifically, students will:
    • Have written and oral communication skills that enable them to express and interpret ideas—both their own and those of others—in clear language. 
    • understand the rhetorical tradition and apply this knowledge in different contexts.
    • Refine foundational skills in critical thinking.
    • Distinguish between types of information resources and how these resources meet the needs of different levels of scholarship and different academic disciplines.
    • Identify, reflect upon, integrate, and apply different arguments to form independent judgments.
    • Conceptualize an effective research strategy, and then collect, interpret, evaluate and cite evidence in written and oral communication.

Quantitative Reasoning

Taken during the first year, Quantitative Reasoning courses introduce students to fundamental mathematical knowledge, including an understanding of the nature of mathematics and quantitative and statistical argumentation.

Please Note: Incoming first-year students must take the Online Math Placement Exam to be placed in the proper level of math coursework at LMU. Transfers may be required to take the exam if they have not passed the required pre-requisite math courses at the college level.

Please see your Registration Task List in Future Lions for more information on taking the test or receiving your placement results.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
    Times: 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20035

    Functions; polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.

    Prerequisite: MATH 101 or Mathematics Placement Examination.

Studies in American Diversity

As an embodiment of LMU's mission and the university's commitment to diversity, these courses provide students with a foundation of critical knowledge and understanding for reflective contemplation that informs, forms and transforms them as women and men for others. 

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
    Times: 12 p.m. - 3:45 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20068

    An introductory course designed to give an overview of African American studies in order to familiarize the student with the history, culture, aspirations, and contemporary issues of the African American experience.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Mondays and Wednesdays 
    Times: 4 p.m. - 7:45 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20091

    An interdisciplinary overview of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies to familiarize students with historical and contemporary issues in Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. 

Theological Inquiry

With its commitment to the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, LMU believes that modern men and women should reflect on their relationship to the world, their fellow humans, and God. Similar reflections are found throughout history, as humanity has grappled with fundamental questions of existence. These courses aim to develop sensitivity to the existential importance of ultimate questions and to appreciate the search for God as intrinsic to the human condition. 

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Mondays and Wednesdays
    Time: 4 - 7:45 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20061

    The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament introduces the foundational stories and traditions for Judaism, Christianity, and arguably, also Islam. This course is a predominantly history-based survey and introduction to the literature of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (in English) where students will encounter not only memorable stories, but provocative prophets, beautiful poetry, stirring stories, and ancient wisdom.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
    Times: 9 - 11:30 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20062

    This course is an introduction to the academic study of religion and of world religions, and to the religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and other current religious trends. Special emphasis is placed upon how these religious traditions have emerged within the context of Los Angeles, how they have changed, grown, and adapted to their new surroundings. 

Understanding Human Behavior

Understanding Human Behavior focuses on the methods of inquiry used by social and behavioral scientists to understand human behavior.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Mondays and Wednesdays
    Times: 4 - 7:45 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20077

    Accelerated introduction to both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Supply and demand, elasticity, and theories of production, cost, competition, monopoly, and other market structures. Aggregate supply, aggregate demand and Keynesian Cross analysis, and discussion of GDP, national income, inflation, and unemployment.

    This course substitutes for ECON 1100 and ECON 1200 wherever one or both are stated as prerequisites.

Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics 

Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics engages students to develop the scientific literacy necessary for them to become knowledgeable citizens of the modern world and understand the impact of science and technology on society.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Mondays and Wednesdays
    Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20023

    This course will introduce students to the basics of human health, including physical and psychological well-being, spiritual health, environmental health, nutrition, and exercise. Other health topics will be included.

    Note: This is for non-majors only. Students enrolling as Health and Human Sciences majors cannot take this course.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
    Time: 4 - 7 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20024

    The study of nutrients and their functions, recommended nutrient intakes, and dietary adequacy while focusing on how to apply this knowledge personally. Emphasis on nutritional roles in health status and chronic disease. Exploration of how behavior change plays a role in nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. 

    Note: This course is for HHSC majors and minors only. 

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24, 2024 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
    Time: 4 - 7 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20027

    The study of nutrients and their functions, recommended nutrient intakes, and dietary adequacy while focusing on how to apply this knowledge personally. Emphasis on nutritional roles in health status and chronic disease. Exploration of how behavior change plays a role in nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

    Note: This course is for non-HHSC majors and minors only. 

Career Readiness

Courses in this category will typically be specific to certain majors only. Please read all course prerequisites and requirements before requesting a course in this category.

  • Session: Session II
    Session Dates: June 24 - August 2, 2024
    Days: Tuesdays 
    Time: 9 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time
    Location: Online
    CRN: 20098
    This course is a transformational experience for incoming undergraduate students, focusing on the role of business as a force for good. The course is an immersive and interactive experience with the following elements.
    • It involves the major global challenges that you will face in your professional career, such as poverty and the environment
    • It brings out the role of business in being a force for good in addressing these challenges as well as in a broad array of issues
    • It involves a project where you will design a business plan to launch of a product for low-income customers in domestic or international markets, while achieving economic sustainability as well as social and environmental sustainability
    • It involves doing good as being at the heart of the business rather than as corporate social responsibility.
    • It involves working with companies.
    • Most importantly, it will involve examining your values as it relates to doing good in the professional and personal realms.
    Students must be enrolling in a major in the College of Business Administration to enroll in this course. 

Additional Course Options

Interested in a course not listed above?

Students may seek registration into any course for which they qualify. To view the full schedule of courses for Summer Sessions I & II, please visit our searchable online course list. Please only select courses from the following terms:

  • Summer 2024 Session I
  • Summer 2024 Session II

You cannot register for Fall courses through this process. Please see the Registration Tab in Future Lions to begin the tasks required for fall registration.

Transcripts confirming pre-requisites have been met will be required; unofficial transcripts will be accepted. In most instances, we will already have your transcript on file from your recent application. However we may reach out to you for additional information if course pre-requisites are not listed on available transcripts. 

Begin Your Summer with LMU