interest. At the same time, this degree will have more practical uses than in the past for individuals in many other fields — such as translation, journalism, anthropology, business, and foreign service.” The Department of World Languages and Literatures has expanded its course offerings at the bachelor’s degree level as well. Southern offered the study of Hebrew for the first time this fall, bringing the number of languages Elena Schmitt, chairwoman of the World Languages and Literatures Department
taught at the university to eleven. These include:
n
New Graduate Offering
including literature, film,
The Department of
Previously, most of the
faith, art, and theater.
World Languages and
courses were centered
Literatures has launched a
almost exclusively on litera-
redesigned Master of Arts
ture. A capstone project is
in Romance Languages —
also required with students
with course offerings in
choosing from three options
French, Italian, and
— a comprehensive exam,
Spanish. The new program requires a series of four
thesis, or special project. Elena Schmitt, chair-
Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Faculty Honored
STAFF Patrick Dilger, Director of Public Affairs Villia Struyk, Editor Mary Pat Caputo, Associate Editor Michael Kobylanski, Sports Editor Marylou Conley, ’83, Art Director Isabel Chenoweth, Photographer Alisha Martindale, Assistant Photographer Nancy Ronne, Development Editor Charlie Davison, Alumni Notes Editor ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE Michelle R. Johnston, Director of Alumni Relations (203) 392-6500 EDITORIAL OFFICE Southern Connecticut State University Office of Public Affairs/ Southern Alumni Magazine 501 Crescent Street New Haven, CT 06515-1355 Telephone (203) 392-6591; fax (203) 392-6597 E-mail address: StruykV1@SouthernCT.edu University Web site: www.SouthernCT.edu Printed by The Lane Press, Inc.
was installed as a Connecticut State
which all students must
Languages and Literatures
take in English, and a
Department, comments:
awarded to outstanding
series of six electives in the
“We anticipate that most of
faculty members of the
language or languages of a
our students will be cur-
Connecticut State
rent or aspiring world lan-
University System, which
guage teachers in
in addition to Southern,
from 35 new and
Connecticut and our pro-
includes Central, Eastern,
redesigned electives —
gram will help them to
and Western Connecticut
many of them focusing on
become more knowledge-
State universities. Since
various aspects of the
able about and more
the 1970s, Mazur has sus-
Hispanic-, Italian-, and
involved in the languages
tained an active program
French-speaking cultures,
and cultures that stir their
of laboratory research in
Students can chose
Dr. Stanley F. Battle, Interim President
Psychology
University Professor, a title
student’s concentration.
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Professor James E. Mazur
woman of the World
common core courses,
Southern
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