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  • 82 541: Special Topics: Hispanic Studies

    3.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    FALL 2011, SECTION A (6 UNITS) The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the historical, political and social underpinnings that have created the country Cuba as it is today, and U.S. policy towards it over the past 100 years. Through historical and contemporary readings and films, current Cuban Internet sources, and discussions, the course will cover the following topics: ? The discovery of Cuba'spain and the growth of Trans-Atlantic capitalism ? ?Cuban Counterpoint?'symphony in black, brown and white ? Constructing Cuban identity?Mart?, ?Nuestra Am?rica? and ?My Race? ? Old and new empires: First Spain, now the United States (1868-1898) ? The Little ?Race War? of 1912 and its aftermath ? Adventures in the Cuban Republic (1902-1959)??The Good Ole Years? ? The Cuban Revolution??Rebels and soldiers and tanks, oh my!? ? Tropical socialism?Birth, life and death in revolutionary Cuba ? Exiled Cubans??Little Havana, U.S.A.? ? The Special Period?Living (or its unreasonable facsimile) after the U.S.S.R. ? Popular vs. national (tourist) culture??We are what we sell, right?? ? Religion, resistance and racism after the Special Period ? Cuban Hip-Hop culture?An antidote or a problem? ? Alternative political social movements??Where is civil society?? ? Cyber-Cuba: A way in or a way out ? The Cuban Revolution at 50 and beyond?Cuba ?The ?Repeating Island? This course is restricted to students who have not completed sufficient study of Spanish to enroll in 82-455, which is a 9-unit course and is taught entirely in Spanish (to enroll in 82-455 students must have completed a minimum of 82-345, its equivalent, or have permission of the instructor). * The once-a-week, one-hour sessions will be longer on the evenings we see films/documentaries, to accommodate viewing and discussing them. Prerequisites: None
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  • 82 542: Special Topics: Hispanic Studies

    3.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Group or individual study in an approved subject area otuside of the regular course offerings. Prerequisite: Completion of a 400-level course and permission of an instructor. Restricted to language majors.
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  • 82 561: Special Topics: Italian

    3.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    An option for students who wish to go beyond the regular offerings in Italian. Group or individual study in a subject area approved by the Instructor. Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor.
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  • 82 562: Special Topics: Italian

    3.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    An option for students who wish to go beyond the regular offerings in Italian. Group or individual study in a subject area approved by the Instructor. Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor.
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  • 82 571: Special Topics: Japanese

    3.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Designed for students of Japanese who wish to go beyond the regular offerings in Japanese. Most suitable for students who have their own ideas for research projects on Japan-related topics of their interest. Students may read Japanese materials (e.g., books, newspapers, magazines, WebPages) and/or speak to native Japanese speakers in Japanese to gather information, and write up findings of their projects in Japanese. Students work on their own projects individually but under the Instructor's guidance. Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor.
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  • 82 572: Special Topics: Japanese

    3.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Designed for students of Japanese who wish to go beyond the regular offerings in Japanese. Most suitable for students who have their own ideas for research projects on Japan-related topics of their interest. Students may read Japanese materials (e.g., books, newspapers, magazines, WebPages) and/or speak to native Japanese speakers in Japanese to gather information, and write up findings of their projects in Japanese. Students work on their own projects individually but under the Instructor's guidance. Prerequisites: Permission of the Instructor.
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  • 82 576: Multimodal/Paralinguistic of L1/L2 Communication

    0.00 - 12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Face-to-face: Embodiment and multimodality in L1 and L2 communication This course introduces students to the ways in which multiple semiotic systems are employed during face-to-face communication in both first and second language contexts. In everyday interaction, meaning arises from the integrated production and perception of multiple communicative cues (e.g., speech, hand gesture, torso alignment, speech rhythm and intonation, and facial expression). Study of this topic affords an important perspective for the language researcher, language teacher, linguist, discourse analyst and cognitive scientist. Indeed, the link between body and language is one that has been suggested as a potential avenue for studying mind, cognition, and thought. We will examine research performed by investigators who work in L1 and/or L2 contexts (e.g., Marianne Gullberg, Chuck Goodwin, Spencer Kelly, Sotaro Kita, and David McNeill) and discuss avenues for application of this research to students? own research projects and/or classroom teaching. Students will learn how to transcribe and analyze multimodal cues for use in discourse analytic research and will produce a final project utilizing these techniques. Questions that will be examined during the course include: Are embodied aspects of communication innate and/or learned? Does the production and perception of multimodal communicative cues differ between cultures and/or languages? How can ?para?linguistic aspects of speech communication be manipulated to achieve communicative goals? (How) Can these ?para?linguistic aspects can be taught in a foreign language classroom? (How) Can analyses of these multimodal cues be integrated with other research methods?
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  • 82 580: Senior Seminar in Modern Languages

    3.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    SPRING 2011 This seminar focuses on general issues in second language learning and use. It provides a culminating experience for students as they complete their studies. The course examines topics such as foreign or second language learning and teaching, the roles of second languages in American life, issues of linguistic and cultural diversity in the United States today, and discussions of multilingualism throughout the world. The primary goal of the seminar will be for students to reflect upon their cumulative language learning experiences, and to involve them in discussion of the roles that a second language plays in their own lives and in the emerging ?global knowledge economy? of the 21st century. The course carries three (3) units of credit and meets for one hour each week. The requirements for the course include one oral report, and one brief final paper in which students synthesize some aspect of their language study and a selection of recommended reading(s). The course will involve regular videoconference interaction with the instructor, Dick Tucker, who is spending AY 2010-2011 as Interim Dean of Carnegie Mellon Qatar. Faculty and other resource people from the Qatar campus will also participate periodically in class discussions. Co-requisite: Open only to Modern Languages Majors.
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  • 82 585: Topics in Second Language Acquisition

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course aims to enhance students? awareness of pragmatic implications in their every day communication, as well as issues that L2 learners face when learning the implications in their course of L2 development. The goal of this course is twofold. First, this course will help students to develop techniques to analyze the linguistic means that people use to achieve pragmatic functions in real life communication. The techniques will be drawn from frameworks within traditional pragmatic theories and approaches (e.g., Speech Act Theory, Relevance Theory, Grice's maxims). Students will apply these techniques to analyze communicative practices in authentic spoken and written materials (in their L1 or L2). The second goal is to have students to critically examine applications of pragmatic theories to L2 research in three broad areas: L2 use, development, and pedagogy, which encompass four major strands in the existing literature: - Application to interlanguage analysis - Application to the models of L2 competence and proficiency - Application to the analysis of L2 development - Application to L2 instruction Through critical examinations of the literature in the four strands, students will develop understanding of the role of pragmatics in L2 research and teaching.
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  • 82 590: Special Topics Russian Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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