The Department of Modern Languages serves the interests of students in their desire to understand other peoples through the study of language, literature, culture, and civilization. The department offers cross-cultural courses, interdisciplinary study and interaction with other areas which require a facility in language arts. The department provides the opportunity for study abroad, for secondary school language teacher preparation, and for vocational objectives based on foreign language study. Curricula in French, German, Italian and Spanish are offered, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Courses in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Latin are also offered.
The Language Placement Exams will be given the first week of classes. The hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. beginning on the hour. Students must schedule a time prior to the exam with the Language Lab Director (Jim Hogg) on the 3rd floor of Gannett Center, at 274-3295. The students should arrive five minutes before the scheduled exam time; the exam takes one hour, so be prepared to stay the whole hour. The test scores are available the day after the exam.
LNGS 11100-01 CROSS-CULTURAL JOURNEYS THROUGH CINEMA HU LA 3b
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Louise Donohue, Muller 304, 4-1572
ENROLLMENT: 60
OBJECTIVES: To develop a greater understanding of changing notions of cultural and national identity. To study cinematic representations from cultures represented by languages taught at Ithaca College.
STUDENTS: Anyone interested in learning more about other nations and cultures.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Throughout the 20th and into the 21st Century, global events and changing notions of family, class, and nationhood have transformed traditional notions of cultural identity. How has war and political upheaval transformed the individual’s relationship to the state? How has globalization and patterns of immigration altered once homogeneous concepts of national identity? To what extent have evolving notions of family, marriage, and gender roles impacted social, cultural, and national identities? What role do class and race play? This course will examine these refigurations of identity both within particular cultures as well as across various cultures and countries. Weekly film screenings, supplemented some readings will form the basis of this course. Faculty from each major language taught by the Modern Language Department will lead students through a three-week investigation of these c hanging notions of identity and their cinematic representations.
REQUIREMENTS: Short writing assignments, group presentations, midterm and final exam. Regular preparation and participation.
LNGS 23200-01 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS SS LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Sergio Pedro, Muller 417A, 4-1421
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITE: One course in the humanities or social sciences.
OBJECTIVES: Introduction to Linguistics regularly attracts majors from Speech Pathology and the various foreign languages. However, linguistics has common with philosophy, anthropology, psychology, history and literature, to name a few fields. The course provokes students into pondering the various aspects of the marvel of human language. We will cover grammar, syntax, semantics, morphology, history of English, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, phonology, and dialectology.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Class time includes discussion and exercises based on recent material and text readings. 3 exams, 2 essays & a final exam.
REQUIREMENTS: Daily preparation, participation, regular assignments & quizzes. Text: Fromkin, An Introduction to Language, 8th ed.
GRADING: Essays, quizzes, exams, participation.
LNGS 23200-02 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS SS LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: James Pfrehm, Muller 301, 4-5139
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITE: One course in the humanities or social sciences. Open to all students.
OBJECTIVES: An introduction to the fundamental areas and concepts of the science of language. Study of sounds and sound patterns, word and sentence structure, and language change. Other topics include semantics, language acquisition and dialects.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture and discussion based on textbook. Chapter tests and final exam.
REQUIREMENTS: Text: An Introduction to Language, 8th ed., by Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams (Thomson).
