Course Descriptions and pronunciation. Students will be expected to achieve approximately the novice-high level based on guidelines published by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Finally, awareness of the cultures, behaviors, and traditions of the Chinese-speaking world will also be emphasized. Class format will include a combination of lectures, demonstrations, tasks, and full class and small group discussions. Global Marker. LMN 112 Elementary Mandarin Language and Culture II (3 credits) A continuation of LMN 111. Global Marker. LSP 111 Beginning Spanish I (3 credits) Designed for students with no previous knowledge of Spanish; acquisition of first-semester, first-year proficiency in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Spanish with use of appropriate cultural and social contexts. Prerequisite: None. LSP 112 Beginning Spanish II (3 credits) Continuation of LSP 111. Prerequisite: LSP 111, by placement or permission of instructor. LSP 124 Culinary Spanish (3 credits) Students learn to converse in elementary Spanish spoken by Spanish-speaking co-workers in the culinary arts field. Course focuses on practicing speaking and vocabulary in conversational situations about menu items, culinary tools and techniques. Spanish and Latin American dishes, condiments and dining customs are presented as part of the cultural background. Prerequisite: None. LSP 211 Intermediate Spanish I (3 credits) Emphasis on oral communication and development of reading and writing skills. Samples of Hispanic literatures read and contemporary social issues discussed in Spanish. Prerequisite: LSP 112, by placement or permission of the instructor. LSP 212 Intermediate Spanish II (3 credits) Continuation of LSP 211. Prerequisite: LSP 211, by placement or permission of the instructor. LSP 311 Hispanic Cultures (3 credits) In this course students will explore the cultural, social, political, and artistic phenomena that have created the civilization and culture of the Spanish speaking people, the fourth largest cultural group in the world. Major influences in the development of Hispanic cultures are highlighted. An emphasis is given to contemporary culture. Conducted in Spanish; readings in Spanish and English. Prerequisites: LSP 112 or permission of the instructor.
Literature LIT 200 Introduction to Literature (3 credits) This course introduces students to the study and appreciation of literature. It explores the literary genres of short story, poetry, drama and novel. There is an option for nonfiction prose as well. The course covers an introduction to literary terminology and an introduction to critical analysis of literature. Prerequisite: ENG 120.
LIT 201 World Lit I: Foundations of Culture (3 credits) This course explores both early European (classical and medieval) culture as well as the great non-European cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Americas up to the Renaissance. Readings will focus on major themes such as the hero, the role of women, ethical values, and views of nature, within the genres of Greek tragedy, comedy, epic and lyric poetry. Students will read authors such as Homer, Sophocles, Dante, Virgil, Cervantes, and Ovid. Although all texts are in English, this course is designed to give students competency in ancient and medieval literature outside the English tradition. Global Marker. Prerequisite: ENG 120. LIT 202 World Lit II: Renaissance to Modern (3 credits) This course introduces students to major works of world literature in translation, excluding the American and British traditions, from the late 1600s to the present. It includes African, Asian, European, Latin American and Middle Eastern literature, with an emphasis on the European. Students will read authors such as Pirandello, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Mahfouz, and Kafka. Prerequisite: ENG 120. LIT 203 Early American Literature (3 credits) This course begins before Columbus but focuses on the period from 1620—with the settlement of Plymouth Plantation—to the formation of American government in the late 18th century. Students will focus on literary texts of historical and cultural relevance and on authors who pursued the American Dream of economic, religious, political, and artistic freedom. Authors may include Bradford, Williams, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Taylor, Mather, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, DeCrevecouer, Equiano and Wheatley. Prerequisite: ENG 120. LIT 205 The American Renaissance (3 credits) This course examines literature from the early 1800s to 1865, the conclusion of the Civil War. During this period, American literature developed a home-grown Romanticism influenced by European intellectual and aesthetic movements, as well as a new cultural sensibility of its own. Authors may include Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Dickinson, and the latter-day transcendentalism of Whitman. Prerequisite: ENG 120. LIT 207 American Realism and Naturalism (3 credits) This survey of American literature begins after the Civil War and ends early in the 20th century. The course will focus on the progression of American literature from Romanticism to Realism and Naturalism and towards Modernism. Students will read literature by authors who were responding to radical shifts in America after the Civil War, including Reconstruction, the rise of industrialism, and new theories of evolution. Authors may include Twain, James, Chesnutt, London, Dreiser, Wharton, Cather, and Anderson, as well as poets of the early twentieth century. Prerequisite: ENG 120. LIT 210 American Literature: 20th Century and Beyond (3 credits) This course will explore major novels, short stories, poetry, and plays from the modern period to the present, with emphasis on literature after WWI. Students will read texts that tackle the political, cultural, and literary issues dominat149