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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Researches the diversity of natural languages and the limits of that diversity. How are human languages similar, and how are they different? What factors control the attested range of cross-linguistic variation? Focus is on morphological and syntactic data, with some discussion of the genetic (historical) relationships among the world's languages, and of methodological problems facing modern linguistic typologies.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the special vocabulary and sentence structure used in Chinese news media both in print and on the Internet. The course aims to help students acquire advance proficiency in reading, listening, speaking, and translating Chinese journalistic discourse.
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3.00 Credits
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, dramatic cultural shifts have transformed Russian literature--writers no longer work under the "red pencil" of censorship, but like writers in the West, under the "censorship" of the marketplace. Crime fiction vies with more highbrow literature, and post-modern themes and devices prevail among a younger generation less influenced by a classical or Soviet heritage. Diversity (e.g., gender and ethnic identities), newly acquired tastes, and a predictable tension between Soviet and post-Soviet values characterize works by Boris Akunin, Valeriia Narbikova, Viktor Pelevin, Nina Sadur, Vladimir Sorokin, Olga Slavnikova, and Liudmila Ulitskaia.
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3.00 Credits
The experience of Jewish writers living in Russia and America from the 1880s until the present, examined through prose, poetry, drama, and memoirs written in English or translated into English from Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. The responses of Jewish writers to Zionism, the Russian Revolution, and the Holocaust with attention to anti-Semitism, emigration, limits of assimilation, and the future of Jews in Russia and America. The works of authors such as An-sky, Babel, Bagritskii, Bellow, Bialik, Erenburg, Malamud, Arthur Miller, Ozick, Philip Roth, Sholom Aleichem, and others.
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3.00 Credits
The ways of words in the life of language as seen through the linguistic techniques of morphology, lexicography, semantics, pragmatics and etymology. Aspects examined include: word formation, word origins, nests of words, winged words, words at play, words and material culture, writing systems, the semantic representations of words, bytes and words, the creative word, the Word made flesh, awkward words, dirty words, dialect vocabulary, salty words, fighting words, words at prayer, new words, and the Great Eskimo vocabulary hoax.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to what it means to learn, and know, a second or foreign language. The course focuses on research carried out since the development of the "interlanguage hypothesis": the role of the learner's native language, Krashen's Monitor Model, application of Greenbergian language universals in the analysis of learner language, generative grammar-based proposals, debate about the role of input and interaction, and research on the social and psychological factors that bear on second language learning. Emphasis is on the acquisition of second-language morphology, grammar, and vocabulary by adults, with some treatment of child language acquisition.
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3.00 Credits
The specialized structure and vocabulary of newspaper Arabic, beginning with the analysis of headlines and telegraphic language and messaging, and continuing into video, radio, film, and web-based content.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended for learners who have completed two years (approximately 200 hours) of Arabic study. Students are introduced to the specialized structure and vocabulary of business Arabic by examining media sources such as newspapers, video, radio, and the web. Authentic and recent business Arabic materials will be examined with a view to introducing learners to the variety of stylistic features and terminologies pertinent to business. Situational topics related to travel, social and business interactions and organized around topical issues, are supported by audio and video cassettes and dialogues. This course is not available in English translation.
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3.00 Credits
For students who have already studied some general linguistics, a look, through examples from various languages and through a consideration of available analytic techniques, at operations in phonology which occur in morphological/inflectional context. Also, as time allows, excursions into phonosyntax.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to contemporary Chinese short fiction and its cultural context. Emphasis will be placed on the acquisition of advanced reading proficiency in literary texts.
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