Core Curriculum Language Requirement and Course Descriptions

Modern Languages
General Course Descriptions

Core Curriculum Language Requirement

Courses in languages must be taken consecutively. That is, a course numbered 101 precedes and is prerequisite to 102; 102 is prerequisite to 201; and 201 is prerequisite to 202.

Graduation requirements in languages may be satisfied only by appropriate sequences of courses in the same language. Thus, French 101-102 must be followed by French 201-202 (not German, or Spanish 201-202) and so forth.

General Courses

MLNG 100 English as a Second Language 3 Credit Hours
Intensive work in oral and written communication in English. Basic writing skills development. Course credit will not be applied to credit hours required for graduation, and the course may be repeated until a satisfactory grade has been achieved. Enrollment limited to non-native speakers of English. Must be taken Pass/Fail.

MLNG 410 European Literary Movements, 12th Century to 1789 3 Credit Hours
An extensive, in-depth survey of influential literary movements on the Continent, beginning with the High Middle Ages and early Italian Renaissance, continuing through the late Renaissance, the Golden Age in Spain, the Classical Age, up to the end of the Age of Enlightenment. While the focus of the course will be on major writers and representative works of each period (e.g., La Chanson de Roland, Bocaccio, Cervantes, Racine, Rousseau, Goethe), the significant intercultural borrowings and literary and artistic cross-fertilization among the intelligentsia of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain will be studied and put in their proper sociological contexts. No prerequisite.

MLNG 420 European Literary Movements, 1789-Present 3 Credit Hours
This course begins at the dawn of the Romantic movement on the Continent and continues through the important movements of Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Surrealism, and Existentialism. Significant works of writers such as Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Galdós, Rilke, Mann, Proust, D'Annunzio, Pirandello, Sartre, and Hesse, among others, will be studied against the background of their times. No prerequisite.

LING 300 Introduction to Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
Open to all students; required for language majors.
A survey of the history of languages and linguistics and a study of the components of human speech: phonetics, phonology, morphology; grammar, syntax, semantics; semiology, writing, literature. No prerequisite.

Language and literature courses numbered 300 and above in a given language have,
unless otherwise stated, 202 in that language as a prerequisite.

Modern Languages General Course Descriptions