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  • 82 280: Learning About Language Learning

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This seminar focuses on the role of diverse affective, cognitive and social factors in second language learning. All participating students are required to be studying an additional language while taking this seminar. Each class is devoted to discussion of assigned readings as well as to completion of various measures, inventories or questionnaires that assess diverse predictors of second language learning. These data are collected throughout the term, and then analyzed and related to predictions based upon previous research that have been discussed in class. Each student also identifies a ?good? or a ?poor? second language learner to interview and then report back to the class on the learners? characteristics. Co-requisite: Study of a foreign language.
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  • 82 281: Tutoring for Community Outreach

    3.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    6-9 units Students participate in a community outreach program and work in the Pittsburgh Public Schools with either elementary school, middle school, or high school students, and, depending on the site, foster their studies of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish or ESL. The elementary school experience will involve regular visits, mentoring, and tutoring at school sites in the East End of Pittsburgh. The middle school experience provides opportunity for tutoring in Japanese, French, or Spanish at Frick International Studies Academy. The high school experience invites advanced students, majors, or minors in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish to work with language students and teachers at local high schools. During the early weeks of the semester, students will meet to arrange their outreach activities and prepare for their experience. Depending on the number of units to be earned, students will spend a certain number of hours per week engaged in some of the following activities: attending and participating in the individual and group meetings, tutoring four to six hours per week, reading and preparing for the school visits, keeping a journal of tutoring experiences, writing a paper or completing a project at the end of the term that reflects experiences. Students earn 6 units by spending 4 hours per week at a school site plus completing related activities. Students earn 9 units by spending 6 hours per week at a school site plus completing related activities. Prerequisites: Permission of the faculty liaison plus completion of an information sheet and clearance forms available in the Department of Modern Languages.
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  • 82 291: Intermediate Russian

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course further develops communicative proficiency through intensive practice in written and spoken Russian. Complex grammatical structures and stylistic variations are mastered and extensive vocabulary is acquired. Through reading materials, fictional and non-fictional, acquaintance is made with the basic components of Russian cultural literacy as well as the distinctive cultural aspects of daily Russian life. Attention is directed toward the dynamic interaction of language and culture in order to foster cross-cultural awareness. Attendance is required at three-hourly class meetings per week, but sometimes a fourth hour is spent on consultation with a course assistant. One to two hours per day outside of these meetings must be devoted to study and homework assignments. Prerequisite or approved equivalent.
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  • 82 292: Intermediate Russian II

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course seeks an integrated approach to the study of the Russian language and culture by means of grammar review, literary and cultural readings and analysis, and intensive practice in written and spoken Russian. This course explores definitions of culture and analyzes the dynamic role of language in culture and culture in language, with an aim to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization while developing proficiency in Russian. Attendance is required at three-hourly class meetings per week, but sometimes a fourth hour is spent on consultation with a course assistant. One to two hours per day outside of these meetings must be devoted to study and homework assignments. The second part of a two-semester course sequence (82-291, 82-292). Prerequisite or approved equivalent.
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  • 82 299: Alternative Break Project (General)

    3.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course provides advanced ML language students and non-ML students enrolled in an Alternative Break student trip project the opportunity to earn credit by engaging in ?connected? modes of knowing, by identifying and analyzing a problem, and developing plans for short-term and sustainable solutions, reflecting, and creating and disseminating an informational and interpretive website and print materials about their experience. Students will also bring to bear or gain experience in non-academic skills/talents/interests in areas like photography, image editing, video production, writing, design, website development, sound recording, and art, etc., by doing community service under the auspices of Carnegie Mellon University's Alternative Break program. Students will earn three (3) units for full participation and fulfillment of course requirements. With the approval of the faculty facilitator, an additional three (3) units may be earned by completing an additional assignment.
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  • 82 303: French Culture

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The purpose of this class is to advance grammatical, communicative and cultural proficiency, through an in-depth study of France and the French. Attempts will be made at defining the French "identity", or what it means to be French, through the study of aspects of French history, French institutions, regions, literature, etc. Examples may be drawn from television and films, songs, and complete literary works, spanning the ages. Great emphasis will be placed on the expression of critical judgment in both oral and written form, documented through readings and personal research.
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  • 82 304: The Francophone World

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course introduces the students of French to several of the francophone regional cultures outside of France, including North and West Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and North America, and the Antilles. The culture commonly associated with the French language is the primarily Christian and Cartesian European tradition. Through the experience of this course, you will learn of the multiple synthetic cultural realities which have arisen through the colonial and post-colonial processes of contact between European and non-European cultures, and which are now expressed through the medium of the French language. Materials studied will include novels, short stories, essays, newspaper and scholarly articles, film, documentary video and song. The course also introduces students to the formal requirements of continuing cultural study, thus assignments will include analyses that demonstrate the ability to express critical judgments in both written and oral form, using accepted academic conventions for research documentation and exposition. Prerequisite or permission of the instructor.
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  • 82 305: French in its Social Contexts

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will focus on culture through language variation in spoken and written forms of French. Readings, videos, web use, and in-class conversations will involve phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of the French language and language change, its use regarding different registers and regional languages within France, the question of social identity through language, immigration and generational issues, and an exploration of the distinctive francophone uses of the French language. In addition, students will be prepared to discuss current issues in France and francophone regions/countries by using multimedia tools available in the Modern Language Resource Center (MLRC). Prerequisite: Completion of at least one 300-level French course, placement score, or permission of Instructor.
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  • 82 311: Arabic Language and Culture I

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course aims to build students? knowledge of the Arab world and at the same time promote the development of their linguistic abilities in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through reading, writing, speaking and listening. A broad range of literary and nonliterary texts and topics relating to the Arab world and Arabic-speaking peoples are studied. Each iteration of this course focuses on a particular theme, such as Current Issues in the Arab World, Ethnic Groups in the Arab world, Arabic Poetry and Proverbs, Education, Economic and Social Development, etc. Students will be asked to write short essays and give brief oral presentations in class. Prerequisite 82-212 Intermediate Arabic II or approved equivalent.
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  • 82 312: Arabic Language and Culture II

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course is a sequel to 82-311 and also aims to build students? knowledge of the Arab world and at the same time promote the development of their linguistic abilities in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through reading, writing, speaking and listening. A broad range of literary and nonliterary texts and topics relating to the Arab world and Arabic-speaking peoples are studied. Each iteration of this course focuses on a particular theme, such as Current Issues in the Arab World, Ethnic Groups in the Arab world, Arabic Poetry and Proverbs, Education, Economic and Social Development, etc. Students will be asked to write somewhat longer essays and give more extensive oral presentations than in 82-311. Prerequisite approved equivalent.
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