Yvonne Ivory, Graduate Director

Overview

The department offers programs leading to the Master of Arts degree in comparative literature, French, German, or Spanish; the Doctor of Philosophy degree in comparative literature; and, in collaboration with the College of Education, the Master of Arts in Teaching degree in foreign languages. There also exist options whereby students may pursue an M.A. in French, German, or Spanish leading to the Ph.D. in comparative literature or linguistics.

The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department offers the Foreign Language, M.A.T. (P-12 Certification)  degree in conjunction with the College of Education.

Programs and Courses

Programs

• Comparative Literature, M.A.
• Comparative Literature, Ph.D.
• French, M.A.
• German, M.A.
• Spanish, M.A.
• Spanish, Ph.D.

Courses

• ARAB 615 - Intensive Readings in Arabic
• ARAB 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College

• CHIN 550 - Advanced Special Topics in Chinese Studies
• CHIN 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College

• CLAS 586 - Classical Mythology
• CLAS 598 - Classics of Western Literary Theory
• CLAS 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College

• CPLT 597 - Special Topics in Comparative Studies in Film and Media
• CPLT 700 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• CPLT 701 - Classics of Western Literary Theory
• CPLT 702 - Modern Literary Theory
• CPLT 703 - Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory
• CPLT 720 - The Periods of Literature
• CPLT 730 - The Literary Genre
• CPLT 740 - Themes in Literature
• CPLT 750 - Cross-Cultural Literary Relations
• CPLT 760 - Literature and Translation: Theory and Practice
• CPLT 765 - Advanced Film Study
• CPLT 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
• CPLT 799 - Thesis Preparation
• CPLT 850 - The Teaching of Comparative Literature
• CPLT 880 - Seminar in Comparative Literature
• CPLT 881 - Seminar in Comparative Literature
• CPLT 882 - Seminar in Comparative Literature
• CPLT 883 - Seminar in Comparative Literature
• CPLT 895 - Research
• CPLT 896 - Research
• CPLT 899 - Dissertation Preparation

• FORL 501 - Spanish for Medical Personnel
• FORL 510 - Teaching Second Languages to Young Children
• FORL 511 - Teaching Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools
• FORL 598 - Special Topics in Global Film and Media
• FORL 700A - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700C - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700E - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700F - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700G - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700I - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700J - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700K - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700P - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700R - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 700S - Language Training in International Business I
• FORL 703A - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703C - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703E - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703F - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703G - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703I - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703J - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703K - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703P - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703R - Training in International Business II
• FORL 703S - Training in International Business II
• FORL 705A - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705C - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705E - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705F - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705G - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705I - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705J - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705K - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705P - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705R - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 705S - Language Training in International Business III
• FORL 730 - Principles of Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
• FORL 772 - Technology in Foreign Language Education
• FORL 774A - Teaching Internship (Foreign Languages)
• FORL 774B - Teaching Internship (Foreign Languages)
• FORL 776 - The Teaching of Foreign Languages in College

• FREN 501 - Contemporary France
• FREN 510 - Current Events in the France and the Francophone World
• FREN 511 - Techniques of Literary Analysis
• FREN 515 - Advanced French Stylistics
• FREN 516 - French Phonology
• FREN 517 - French Linguistics
• FREN 595 - Special Topics in French
• FREN 615 - Intensive Readings in French
• FREN 700 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• FREN 715 - History of the French Language
• FREN 720 - La Nouvelle Vague et Après/The New Wave and After
• FREN 730 - Francophone Literatures
• FREN 735 - Francophone Literature from Quebec
• FREN 740 - Old French Literature
• FREN 750 - Sixteenth-Century French Literature
• FREN 760 - Seventeenth-Century French Literature
• FREN 770 - Eighteenth-Century French Literature
• FREN 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
• FREN 780 - Nineteenth-Century French Literature
• FREN 790 - Twentienth-Century French Literature
• FREN 795 - French Seminar
• FREN 796 - Special Projects in French
• FREN 799 - Thesis Preparation

• GERM 500 - Survey of German Culture
• GERM 515 - Introduction to German Linguistics
• GERM 516 - History of the German Language
• GERM 517 - Introduction to the Germanic Languages
• GERM 518 - German Sociolinguistics
• GERM 580 - Topics in German Film
• GERM 598 - Selected Topics in German
• GERM 615 - Intensive Readings in German
• GERM 700 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• GERM 710 - Middle High German
• GERM 711 - Selected Topics in Old Germanic Languages
• GERM 720 - The German Renaissance and Baroque
• GERM 730 - The German Enlightenment and its Counter-Currents
• GERM 740 - German Romanticism
• GERM 750 - German Realism
• GERM 760 - German Literature from 1889 to 1945
• GERM 770 - Recent and Contemporary German Literature
• GERM 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
• GERM 780 - German Seminar
• GERM 781 - German Seminar
• GERM 790 - Directed Reading and Research
• GERM 799 - Thesis Preparation

• GREK 501 - Herodotus
• GREK 502 - Thucydides
• GREK 533 - Sophocles
• GREK 534 - Euripides
• GREK 543 - Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns
• GREK 550 - Greek Seminar
• GREK 560 - Independent Study
• GREK 561 - Independent Study
• GREK 614 - Intensive Grammar Review of Ancient Attic Greek
• GREK 615 - Intensive Readings in Ancient Attic Greek

• ITAL 516 - Practical Italian Phonetics
• ITAL 560 - Independent Studies in Italian Literature
• ITAL 561 - Independent Studies in Italian Literature
• ITAL 615 - Intensive Readings in Italian

• JAPA 500 - Japanese Language in Society
• JAPA 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College

• LATN 501 - Latin Drama
• LATN 502 - Cicero
• LATN 504 - Horace
• LATN 508 - Ovid
• LATN 513 - Tacitus
• LATN 514 - Livy
• LATN 525 - Roman Satire
• LATN 530 - Latin Erotic Poetry
• LATN 537 - Lucretius
• LATN 540 - Renaissance Latin
• LATN 551 - History of Latin Literature from the Origins to the Golden Age
• LATN 552 - History of Latin Literature in the Silver Age
• LATN 560 - Independent Study
• LATN 561 - Independent Study
• LATN 580 - Teaching Advanced Latin in Secondary School
• LATN 614 - Intensive Grammar Review in Latin
• LATN 615 - Intensive Readings in Latin
• LATN 703 - Medieval Latin
• LATN 790 - Directed Reading and Research

• PORT 615 - Intensive Readings in Portuguese

• RUSS 598 - Selected Topics in Russian
• RUSS 615 - Intensive Readings in Russian
• RUSS 616 - Intensive Readings in Russian
• RUSS 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
• RUSS 790 - Directed Reading and Research

• SPAN 500 - Contemporary Spain
• SPAN 501 - Contemporary Spanish America
• SPAN 513 - Introduction to Professional and Technical Translation
• SPAN 515 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
• SPAN 516 - The Structure of Modern Spanish
• SPAN 517 - Contrastive English-Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
• SPAN 518 - Introduction to Spanish Medieval Literature
• SPAN 524 - Renaissance and Golden Age Literature
• SPAN 534 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
• SPAN 538 - Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
• SPAN 541 - Colonial Spanish-American Literature to Neoclassicism
• SPAN 543 - Spanish-American Literature from the Independence Through Modernism
• SPAN 550 - Advanced Language Study Abroad
• SPAN 555 - Spanish-American Literature from Modernism Through 1960
• SPAN 557 - Contemporary Spanish-American Literature
• SPAN 575 - Special Topics in Spanish
• SPAN 615 - Intensive Readings in Spanish
• SPAN 700 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• SPAN 711 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
• SPAN 715 - History of the Spanish Language
• SPAN 722 - Cervantes
• SPAN 724 - Renaissance and Baroque Poetry and Drama
• SPAN 730 - Contemporary Spanish Prose Fiction
• SPAN 732 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish Prose and Poetry
• SPAN 733 - Trans-Atlantic Perspectives
• SPAN 734 - Spanish Poetry: Generation of ‘27
• SPAN 736 - The Generation of 1898
• SPAN 745 - Seminar in Spanish-American Drama
• SPAN 746 - Post-Baroque Spanish Drama
• SPAN 747 - The Modern Spanish-American Novel
• SPAN 751 - Twentieth-Century Spanish-American Short Story
• SPAN 752 - Twentieth-Century Spanish Exile Literature
• SPAN 763 - Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative
• SPAN 765 - Contemporary Spanish-American Poets
• SPAN 767 - Spanish-American Testimonial Literature
• SPAN 769 - Hispanic Women Writers
• SPAN 771 - Spanish-American Modernism
• SPAN 777 - Supervised Instruction in Teaching Foreign Languages in College
• SPAN 780 - Seminars in Hispanic Literature
• SPAN 783 - Seminars on Selected Topics
• SPAN 796 - Independent Study
• SPAN 799 - Thesis Preparation
• SPAN 880 - Seminar on Special Topics in Transatlantic Studies
• SPAN 881 - Seminar on Special Topics in Spanish-American Literatures and Cultures
• SPAN 882 - Seminar on Special Topics in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
• SPAN 899 - Dissertation Preparation