Intensive Spanish Summer Institute
Registration begins end of May - date TBA
- All levels of the Core Courses, Low Beginning through High Superior, will be provided through Live Zoom instruction with our ISSI instructors
- Cultural Breakout Sessions will be provided through some live sessions and some videos by ISSI Cultural Breakout presenters
The Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI) at Lake Tahoe Community College is a one-week Spanish immersion experience in beautiful South Lake Tahoe. This highly successful program has been recognized by the California Community College Board of Governors as an outstanding community college program. ISSI is for anyone interested in learning Spanish, from high school age and above. You will learn the Spanish language and culture with many native Spanish-speaking instructors through 16 levels of language instruction, from Low-Beginning through High-Superior, and a wide variety of cultural Break-Out sessions. Attend classes on grammar, cooking, history, dance, travel, conversation, literature and more, and earn up to 4 quarter units of credit in the process. Whether you are studying Spanish for your career, college, or life-long learning, this program will provide the experience to meet your goals. Best of all, it's affordable and very fun!
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- $77.50 enrollment fee ($31/unit)
- $5 Health & Student Rep Fee
- $42 Material Fee
- Optional .5 unit course additional fee of $15.50 per class
- $520 enrollment fee + out-of-state tuition ($208/unit)
- $5 Health & Student Rep Fee
- $42 Material Fee
- Optional .5 unit course additional fee of $104 per class
How to Enroll in ISSI
All ISSI students must first either Apply or Update their application.
If you have not been enrolled at LTCC in the last two quarters you need to update your application.
It takes approximately 1-3 days for the application to update. Need help using CCCApply to apply to LTCC? Please see this helpful tutorial video.
Please allow 1-3 days from application submission to receive your student ID information and Passport login information. If you do not receive an email notification, check your "Junk Mail" email folder for it.
Contact One-Stop at (530) 541-4660 x 211 if you do not receive this email
Once you have your student ID and Passport login information, you can register for ISSI courses by going to the Passport login page. After logging in, locate "Web-Advisor" on the lefthand side and click on "Register for Classes." We suggest you use Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Waitlist: If your course or level is full, add yourself to the waitlist for that course.
- Our system works best with Firefox or Internet Explorer. Please do not use Safari.
- All course times listed in the registration schedule include grammar instruction, breakout
sessions, and series sessions.
- Course Times - Example below:
- Low Beginning through Intermediate III: 8am-10:50am and Video Breakout Sessions in the afternoon (or at your convenience)
- High Intermediate through High Superior: 11am-2:50 and Video Breakout Sessions in the morning (or at your convenience)
- When looking for ISSI courses on registration page, click on Term for Summer 2019. Click on the first Subject button and click on Spanish. Click on the Search button. DO NOT ENTER THE ACTUAL COURSE NUMBERS.
Note: High School Special Admit - please see the High School special admit application
If you need a paper copy of the registration form sent to you via mail or email, please contact issi@ltcc.edu or call (530) 541-4660 x 522.