Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language. Offered only in fall.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Admission only by successful completion of Arabic 121. Offered only in spring.

Carolina Core: GFL

Continuation of reading, writing, and speaking Arabic.

Increased emphasis on reading and writing skills in Arabic.

Introduction to Arab culture (literature, music, film, and art) from the 19th century to the present.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

This course builds on grammar and vocabulary by reading and listening to authentic Arabic materials. By semester’s end, the student will be able to write in detail and comprehend and use advanced vocabulary grammar and syntax in all forms of expression.

This course is a continuation of ARAB 301 and builds on grammar and vocabulary by reading and listening to authentic Arabic materials. By semester’s end, the student will be able to write in detail and comprehend and use advanced vocabulary grammar and syntax.

Practical drills in aural-oral skills to develop facility in the spoken language.

Continued instruction in colloquial (spoken) Arabic with a focus on oral and aural competencies, discussing aspects of the local culture, and working with media produced in the local variety of Arabic. Course may be repeated as the variety of Arabic may change.

Introduction to dominant trends and genres in nineteenth and twentieth century Arabic literature.

Selected literary topics of the Arab world. May be repeated for credit under different titles. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Increased focus on reading, writing, and discussion in Modern Standard Arabic.

Continued acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Increased focus on reading, writing, and discussion in Modern Standard Arabic.

Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only. Grades S/U for graduates and undergraduates.

Introduction to basic vocabulary and common grammar structures of ASL. Focus on communication and familiarization with aspects of deaf culture. This course does not satisfy the foreign language requirements of any college.

Practice and further development in the language and culture of the American deaf community. This course does not satisfy the foreign language requirement of any college.

Five hundred of the most commonly used Chinese characters. Emphasis is on the phonetic and significant elements common to large groups of ideograms.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Admission only by successful completion of Chinese 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Continued practice of basic sentence patterns used in modern speech with increased emphasis on reading and acquisition of additional characters.

Continued practice of basic sentence patterns used in modern speech with increased emphasis on reading and acquisition of additional characters.

Introduction to Chinese culture, heritage, and modern societies. Readings selected from printed and online sources. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Provides advanced intermediate training in spoken and written Chinese. By increasing students’ vocabulary and knowledge of sentence patterns, the course focuses on speaking and writing in coherent, well-formed paragraphs.

Continues advanced intermediate training in spoken and written Chinese. Attention is given to complex grammatical patterns, discourse characteristics, and discussions of cultural topics.

Introduces the connection between gender and the Chinese national imagination. Readings include cultural and historical documents that purport to explain the experience of women in China. Readings in English. Taught in English.

Cross-listed course: WGST 335

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An introduction to the most important works, authors, genres, and themes of Chinese literature from the first millennium B.C.E. to 1911.

Readings of canonical texts from modern Chinese literature. A focus is on the role of literature and other cultural documents in the imagination of China as a modern nation. Readings and discussion in English.

Survey of Chinese language cinema. Chinese film history and vocabulary with which to discuss film texts. Covers classic leftwing cinema, Hong Kong martial arts films, as well as the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC New Waves. Taught in English. Films subtitled.

Cross-listed course: FAMS 365

Intensive study in selected authors or literary movements of China, including cultural aspects. May be repeated for credit under different titles. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis on building oral proficiency in professional settings.

Continued acquisition of advanced grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis on expanding communicative abilities in a wider variety of interpersonal situations.

Advanced special topics in Chinese studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Major gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines of classical mythology as portrayed in major literary works; the function of myth in society and its relevance to modern life.

Carolina Core: AIU

Greek and Latin elements in the formation of medical and scientific vocabulary; designed for students intending to enter the scientific and health professions. No previous knowledge of Greek or Latin required.

This course is designed to introduce students to the importance of competition in the military and private spheres of the Greco-Roman world, a dominant legacy of antiquity.

An introduction to the work of ancient philosophers, with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.

Cross-listed course: PHIL 301

Problems such as hedonism, providence, belief and evidence, and mysticism, as they appear in the writings of the Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Plotinus.

Cross-listed course: PHIL 302

Representations of antiquity in cinema, television, and other contemporary media, with emphasis on Hollywood’s reception of Greek and Roman history.

Cross-listed course: HIST 305

Gender roles, standards of sexual behavior, evidence for women’s lives, as manifested in ancient Greek literary and archaeological evidence; attitudes toward homosexuality; the modern media’s representation of famous Greeks.

Cross-listed course: WGST 320

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Sexuality as a social construct exemplified in standards of sexual behavior in ancient Rome and their reinforcement of the ruling ideology; feminine virtue, definitions of manliness, attitudes toward homosexuality.

Cross-listed course: WGST 321

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece, combined with an excursion of Greece. Topics include: Mycenaean Greece and the world of Homer, Archaic Greece, oikos and polis, interaction with the Near East, Athens in the 5th and 4th centruy BCE, Greek religion, ancient Greek society.

Intensive study of one topic per semester dealing with ancient contributions to Western civilization. Not for Greek or Latin major credit. In English. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Study of the impact of the culture of Greece and Rome on the founding fathers of the American Revolution.

A survey of ancient architecture, painting, and sculpture 2000-160 B.C.

Cross-listed course: ARTH 312

This course uses the rich archaeological resource of the city of Pompeii to explore daily life in Ancient Rome. Using both material and written sources, students will learn about how people of all social classes lived in the public and private spaces of Pompeii.

Examination of ancient Greek and Roman philosophical, medical, and literary works (in English) as sources for the origins of medical ethics. Priority enrollment for Medical Humanities students.

Cross-listed course: PHIL 312

Introduction to ancient medicine: science and art, theory and practice, healing and predicting. Topics include Medicine before Hippocrates, Hippocratic medicine, holism, naturalism, medicine, religion and magic, medicine and scientific explanation, Hellenistic medicine and methodology, Galenic medicine.

Cross-listed course: PHIL 313

Athenian History from Persian Wars through Peloponnesian War.

Study of Rome’s imperial family from Julius Caesar until the death of Nero.

A comparative survey of Greek and Latin masters.

Representative plays by Greek and Roman dramatists.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 395

Classical rhetoric and its ongoing influence in the modern world, emphasizing how the study and use of language in ancient Greece and Rome continue to shape modern communication.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 471, SPCH 471

The major Greek and Roman myths, with emphasis on their meaning, functions, and influence on ancient and later Western culture.

Problems of literary theory in texts from the ancients to the 17th century, with an emphasis on the classical tradition.

Cross-listed course: CPLT 701, ENGL 733

Analysis of major works of world literature focusing on values, ethics, and social responsibility.

Carolina Core: AIU, VSR

Selected masterpieces of world literature from antiquity to the present.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 270

Carolina Core: AIU

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introduction to ways of reading and comparing literatures drawn from diverse languages and cultures.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

European masterpieces from antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 390

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

European masterpieces from the Renaissance to the present.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 391

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Classical and contemporary poetry and prose of the Middle and Far East.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 392

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Comprehensive exploration of medieval and other pre-Renaissance literature using texts representative of the evolution of dominant literary forms.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 380

Literature of the Renaissance, in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 381

Literature of the Enlightenment in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 382

Literature of Romanticism, in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 383

Literature of Realism in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 384

Literature of Modernism in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 385

Literature of Postmodernism in its cultural contexts, explored through representative works.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 386

Topics involving two or more national literatures. Topics to be announced in master schedule by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Topics in film and media from an international perspective. National cinematic traditions are compared and contrasted. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Studies in language not otherwise taught. May include a cultural and/or linguistic component.

Application of effective teaching techniques and organization of instructional settings in foreign languages for K-12.

Cross-listed course: EDTE 448

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Acquaints students with principles and practices concerning the use of technology in foreign language teaching. Explores connection between second language acquisition and the implementation of Internet and multimedia technologies.

Cross-listed course: LING 472

Students apply methods of curriculum and assessment, professionalism, effective teaching, and organization of instructional settings during internship in foreign language classroom.

Cross-listed course: EDTE 474

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Basic course in health professions. Functional language and lexicon as well as cultural practices for interaction with Hispanic clients.

To assist prospective teachers of young children in the development of a second language and multicultural learning activities. Practicum sessions are an integral part.

Cross-listed course: EDEL 510

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Current methods, techniques, and materials of instruction appropriate for secondary schools.

Cross-listed course: EDSE 575

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning films produced in a country other than the United States. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: FAMS 598, MART 594

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Admission to FREN 109 restricted to those who have never studied French, who have not studied French in the previous five years, or who have a score of F-1 on the placement test.

Carolina Core: GFL

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Admission to 110 restricted to those who have completed FREN 109. Credit may be received only for one of the following: FREN 109/FREN 110 or FREN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Grammar and vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes prior experience in French. Admission to FREN 121 restricted to those who have a score of F-2 on the placement test. Credit may be received for only one of the following: FREN 109/FREN 100 or FREN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Readings in French; grammar, basic writing, and composition.

Practice in conversation involving authentic listening materials; vocabulary building.

Readings and discussion in English, with consideration of the cultural context.

Carolina Core: AIU

Intensive one-term study of a particular topic identified by title. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Analysis of and practice in pronunciation and listening comprehension.

Cross-listed course: LING 316

Development and maintenance of speaking and listening skills at the advanced level. Offered Pass-Fail only. May be repeated.

Reading, discussion, and written analysis of French texts, both literary and nonliterary.

Current issues and events presented in French-language media. Discussion and presentations in French provide practice with advanced structures and idiomatic speech.

Practice in French composition; intensive review of French grammar.

Practical oral and written communication in a commercial context; introduction to business terminology and correspondence.

Project work in the production of plays in French. Includes readings in and public performance of French theatre and related materials.

Intensive language practice with special attention to oral skills. Classroom instruction by native speakers.

Cultural and linguistic service-learning experience in a French-speaking environment. Course may be repeated once in a different location.

An introduction to the history of the French film, with special emphasis on the aesthetic appreciation of the films in their artistic and cultural context. Films in French, with English subtitles. Taught in English. To be counted towards FREN major or minor.

Intensive study of selected topics of the French-speaking world. May be repeated for credit under a different title. May not be counted for major or minor credit. Note: Taught in English. To be counted towards FREN major or minor.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

French history and the arts from early times through the Napoleonic era.

Commercial organizations and businesses in France. Practical business correspondence. Terminology and techniques in commercial transactions with the Certificat Pratique of the Paris Chamber of Commerce in view. Taught in French.

May be repeated for credit.

Study and discussion of French works written before 1800 within their cultural and historical contexts.

Study and discussion of French works written after 1800 within their cultural and historical contexts.

Study and discussion of works from French-speaking societies outside France, with attention to their cultural contexts and historical contexts.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Readings in and discussion of the culture of contemporary France.

Development of advanced oral skills in French. Study of linguistic and cultural aspects of French language media.

Texts from standard authors, with emphasis on explication de texte.

Practice in descriptive and narrative composition with special attention to contrastive stylistics; thème et version.

The sound system and its functioning in the morphological system of French from the point of view of current phonological theory.

Cross-listed course: LING 512

The structure, morphology, and syntax of modern French.

Cross-listed course: LING 502

Poetry, prose, theatre, cinema, civilization, language, linguistics. Unique opportunities will be announced by title. May be repeated.

Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language reading requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only. Grades S/U for graduates and undergraduates.

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Restricted to those who have never studied German or who have placed by examination into GERM 109. Credit may be received only for one of the following GERM 109; GERM110; GERM 111; GERM 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Credit may be received only for one of the following: GERM 109; GERM 110; GERM 111; GERM 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Intensive introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Admission only to highly motivated beginning students who obtain permission of the department. Credit may be received only for one of the following: GERM 109 and GERM 110; GERM 111; GERM 121.

Grammar and vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes prior experience in German. Admission only by proficiency examination. Credit may be received for only one of the following: GERM 109; GERM 110; GERM 111; GERM 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Further development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills; discussion of selected literary texts, and current issues; intensive review of basic grammar structures.

Reading strategies, a review, and expansion of grammar structures, supplemented with materials concerning current issues.

The idea of nature in Germany from the 18th century to today. Focus on scientific, philosophical, social and political entanglements that prompt radical shifts in how German thinkers view nature.

Survey of medieval romances and love lyrics of Germany. History and culture of the High Middle Ages in Germany, especially courtly society. The function of chivalry and courtly literature in society.

Carolina Core: AIU

Survey of German cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present. Taught in English.

Carolina Core: GHS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Survey of Germanic mythological and heroic texts of the Viking Age. History and culture of Germanic tribes, especially the Vikings. The function of myth in society.

Carolina Core: AIU

Examination of roots and culture of environmentalism and related technological innovation in Germany. Comparison of green practices around the world to practices within Europe and U.S.

Cross-listed course: ENVR 295

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Continued practice in the four skills with focus on a selected aspect of German culture and society.

Continued practice in the four skills with emphasis on developing writing skills and with focus on a specific aspect of German culture.

Development of advanced language and cultural skills necessary for functioning in the professional world of German-speaking countries.

Literary-historical analysis and discussion of texts from German Kabarett, including comedic skits, political and social satire, parody, humorous poetry. Semester ends with a public performance in German.

Intensive language practice and cultural studies. May be repeated for credit by permission.

An introduction to the literary genres illustrated by masterpieces in German poetry, drama, and prose.

Taught in English. Intensive study of cultural and/or literary movements in German-speaking countries. Course content varies by title.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Introduction to principles of foreign language instruction and field experience planning instruction and teaching German to children in local elementary schools.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Emphasis on advanced grammar structures, with continued development of all four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

Advanced practice in correct spoken idiomatic German with special focus on issues of the 20th century and contemporary culture.

Development of advanced language and cultural skills necessary for functioning in the professional world of German-speaking countries. Preparation for standardized exams.

Survey of German literature and culture from the beginnings to 1350, including Germanic mythology and heroic poetry, conversion to Christianity, courtly romance and love lyric, mystical writings, art and architecture.

German literature and culture of the 18th century with emphasis on the period between 1750 and Weimar Classicism. May include major works by Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller.

German literary, cultural, and intellectual developments from Unification to the end of WWII, including Naturalism, Expressionism, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the exile period.

German literary, cultural, and intellectual developments from 1890 to 1945, including Expressionism, Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and exile period.

German literary, cultural and political developments from Post-War destruction and reconstruction, through the Cold War period of division, with examination of the reunification process.

Historical survey of the German contribution to the intellectual and cultural life of Europe. Texts and films in German.

Structural and descriptive linguistics applied to the German language.

Cross-listed course: LING 503

Development of German in the Germanic, Old High German, Middle High German, and New High German periods. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and the relationship between dialects and the standard language.

Cross-listed course: LING 733

Introduction to historical Germanic linguistics including a survey of the Old Germanic languages (Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse, Gothic); comparative phonology, morphology, and syntax, typology of modern Germanic languages and dialects; and common Germanic in its Indo-European context.

Cross-listed course: LING 533

Introduction to the study of variation in Modern German. Traditional German dialectology and dialect geography, language and society, multilingualism in the German-speaking countries, German in contact with other languages.

Cross-listed course: LING 548

Examination of recurring themes and issues or of significant periods and influential styles in German film. Course content varies and individual topics will be announced with course title.

Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only by permission of instructor. Grades S/U for graduates and undergraduates.

Basic grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Classical and Koine Greek. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Additional grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Classical and Koine Greek.

Carolina Core: GFL

Readings in the Gospels and Epistles.

Cross-listed course: RELG 320

The life of Socrates based on the reading of Plato’s Apology and Crito in Greek. Supplementary reading in English from Xenophon’s Memorabilia and Aristophanes’ Clouds.

Readings from the Iliad and the Odyssey in Greek. Discussion of the language, background, and composition of the poems.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Readings from the Histories.

Readings from the History of the Peloponnesian War.

Selected plays.

Selected plays.

Readings from the Works and Days, the Theogony, and the Homeric Hymns.

Authors and topics not covered in other Greek language courses, chosen to meet the needs of individual students. May be repeated with the approval of the department.

Special projects for independent study and research.

Special projects for independent study and research.

Intensive review for nonmajors designed to prepare them for GREK 615.

Intensive reading for nonmajors. A review of grammar and syntax with reading of passages from Plato’s Apology. Primarily for graduate students to fulfill the foreign-language reading requirement.

Grammar and practical vocabulary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language. Offered only in fall.

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Offered only in spring.

Review of the basic principles of grammar, with emphasis on reading, oral skills, and writing.

Review of the basic principles of grammar, with emphasis on reading, oral skills, and writing.

Practical training in the spoken and written language.

Intensive study in selected and cultural topics related to Judaism. May be repeated for credit under different titles. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Accelerated development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills to obtain the Basic Proficiency Level in Italian. Credit may be received only for one of the following: ITAL 121 and ITAL 122, or ITAL 130.

Practice and rapid development of accurate skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Features BBC television course.

Practice and further rapid development of accurate skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Features BBC television course.

Accelerated development of intermediate level listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills in Italian. Credit may be received only for one of the following: ITAL 221 and ITAL 222, or ITAL 230.

Oral practice with advanced protocols of Italian conversation, focusing on perfecting rhythms and tonalities, and on a clear presentation of meaning.

Introduction to letter, short essay, and creative writing, and to newspaper reports and selected essays as models of self-expression.

Project work in the production of plays in Italian. Includes readings in and public performance of Italian theatre and related materials.

Cultural analysis of the issues facing immigrants and their descendants in Italy, as well as the development of Italian American Culture in the United States. Through films, original texts, secondary literature, and contemporary media will be explored. Taught in English.

Intensive language practice, emphasizing oral proficiency skills and advanced conversational protocols. Classroom instruction by native speakers, extensive contact with native environment, field trips. May be repeated for credit by permission.

Introductory course of Italian Literature that covers canonical authors and key literary, cultural, and historical movements in Italy from 1200-1850.

Survey of significant writers, works, and cultural movements in Italian Literature from 1850 to the present day.

Intensive study of selected literary and cinematic topics of the Italian world. May be repeated for credit as topic varies by title. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Significant values in the Italian cultural heritage, as presented in native print and visual media.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Italian Culture Course on Italian and Global Foodways as studied through the lens of climate change and sustainability.

Selected plays, short stories, novels and poems which characterize quality achievements by Italians, and which promote a better understanding of Italian life.

Italian love poetry, beginning with the "Dolce Stil Nuovo" of the late Middle Ages and ending with post-WWII avant-garde poetry.

Selected literature from the Italian business world, such as correspondence, brochures, specialized newspapers and magazines, biographies of businessmen, prospectuses, and annual reports.

Prepares students for making lengthy formal reports in Italian, both written and oral, on topics of importance for success within an Italian environment.

Italian writers, focusing on the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, with additional selections from later authors.

Italian films of high esthetic value that present major cultural concerns of post-WWII Italians. Skills in film criticism and analysis. Films are subtitled. Taught in English.

Directed independent research project, with a formal presentation and public discussion.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Italian political and literary history course focusing on Machiavelli’s major publications and their meanings with regard to the cultural and political goals of the Renaissance in Italy.

Comparative Italian/American literature and culture course examining the differences between humoristic texts in Italian and American cultures.

Italian literature seminar tracing the history of the short story from its Italian origins through the twentieth century.

Special topics in Italian literature.

Special topics in Italian literature.

Graduate students fulfill their foreign language reading requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Admission only by successful completion of Japanese 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Review and continuation of fundamentals of the language; development of oral and reading skills.

Review and continuation of fundamentals of the language; development of written and oral expression.

Acquisition and advancement of kanji literacy and writing skills. Development of foundational skills to review basic kanji and to aid in inferring the meaning of higher level kanji. Covers 250 kanji characters with complementary instruction through many mediums (brush writing, postcards, meishi).

Introduction to Japanese culture through an examination of cultural elements such as traditions, arts, history, geography, people, society, and religion. Taught in English.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Improvement of skills in conversation and composition; advanced reading in modern Japanese materials.

Continuation of JAPA 321, with emphasis on strengthening proficiency in the use of Kanji.

Development of language skills specific to the Japanese business world and its practices.

This is a continuation of JAPA 331.

Introduction to Japanese literature and its cultural background. Conducted in English, but some background of Japanese is recommended.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Survey of modern Japanese literature and its cultural background up to the present. Conducted in English, but some knowledge of Japanese is required.

Examination of Japanese culture and contemporary society using selected films. Taught in English.

Introduction to Japanese traditional theater and its influences on Japanese culture and society. Taught in English.

Cross-listed course: THEA 369

Examination of Japanese culture and contemporary society through studying of popular animations. Taught in English.

Intensive study of selected topics in Japanese literature and culture. May be repeated for credit as topic varies by title. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Development of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing through advanced studies of authentic Japanese materials.

Strengthening proficiency in writing and reading.

Japanese language and communication in its sociocultural context; emphasis on comparison with American English. Taught in English.

Cross-listed course: LING 546

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Practice and development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Review and continuation of fundamentals of the language; development of oral and reading skills.

Increased emphasis on written and oral expression in Korean.

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental reading skills. Admission to 109 restricted to those who have never studied Latin, who have not studied Latin in the previous five years, or who have a score of L-1 on the placement test.

Carolina Core: GFL

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental reading skills. Credit may not be received for both LATN 109/LATN 110 and LATN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Grammar and vocabulary necessary for fundamental reading skills. Assumes prior experience in Latin. Admission only by proficiency examination. Credit may be received for only one of the following: LATN 109/LATN 110 or LATN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential reading skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

A survey of Latin literature designed for the student who wishes to develop a major or cognate in Latin.

Readings from the Aeneid.

Selected readings in prose and poetry of representative authors.

A study of Latin syntax in order to translate English prose into Latin. Instruction is individualized.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Selected plays of Plautus and Terence.

Readings from a variety of Cicero’s works to gain a concept of the man as a humanist.

Readings from the Odes.

Selected readings from the Metamorphoses.

Agricola or selections from the Annales.

Readings from Ab Urbe Condita.

Readings in Horace, Juvenal, and Petronius.

Readings from the elegies of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid.

Readings from the De Rerum Natura.

An examination of several genres of Latin writing from Europe during the period 1400-1600, emphasizing, but not limited to, Italian writers.

Readings from the Twelve Tables to Virgil, supplemented by readings in history and scholarship. Designed to prepare majors and honors students for further study.

Readings from Ovid to Ammianus, supplemented by readings in history and scholarship. Designed to prepare majors and honors students for further study.

Special projects for independent study and research.

Special projects for independent study and research.

Methods and materials for teaching the Latin Advanced Placement courses in secondary school.

Intensive grammar review for non-majors; designed as preparation for LATN 615.

Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language reading requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Review of the basic principles of grammar with additional emphasis on reading and oral skills.

Continued review of the basic principiles of grammar with additional emphasis on reading, writing, and oral skills.

Accelerated Portuguese for speakers of Spanish, taught through a communicative approach. Students will develop intermediate-level oral and written communication skills in Portuguese and increase knowledge about multiple aspects of Luso-Brazilian cultures.

Development of advanced conversational and compositional skills through systematic grammar study and review, reading, oral activities, and film discussion.

Development of advanced conversational and compositional skills through systematic grammar study and review, reading, and the analysis of texts through both writing and oral discussion.

Introduction to reading literary texts in Portuguese through carefully selected readings from different genres/periods.

Society and business topics in Brazil. Equally useful for non-business majors.

Examination of Brazilian short fiction and cronicas (literary journalistic pieces).

Contemporary social justice topics throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, including Africa and Asia.

Intensive study of special topics in Luso-Brazilian cultural production. May be repeated once as content varies by title. Taught in Portuguese.

Intensive study of selected topics. May be repeated for credit under different title. Taught in English. Individual topics to be announced by title.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language reading requirements with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Continued exposure to the fundamentals of Russian grammar, along with increased focus on reading and speaking skills.

Completion of exposure to the fundamentals of Russian grammar, with emphasis on writing, reading, and conversation.

A multimedia introduction to Russian culture from its beginnings to the present. No knowledge of Russian required.

Carolina Core: AIU

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Introductory-level study of selected topics in Russian culture. Does not apply toward the Russian major. May be repeated for credit under a different title.

Conversation, reading, composition, comprehensive review of grammar.

Emphasis on oral proficiency, using contemporary authentic materials from Russian newspapers, textbooks, and television newscasts.

Masterworks of Russian literature by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Chekov, and others.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

A Russian-language course designed to supplement 319. Reading and discussion in Russian of 19th-century poetry and prose.

Masterworks of Russian literature by Bely, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and others.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

A Russian-language course designed to supplement RUSS 320.

An examination of Russian short stories and essays by Russian writers from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

An introduction to Russian fairy tales and other genres of folklore, both in their original form within an oral tradition and as reworked in Russian art and literature.

Intensive study of selected topics in Russian cultural and/or literary movements. Taught in English. May be repeated for credit under a different title.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Acquisition of subtleties of Russian grammar. Increased focus on reading, writing, and discussion.

Exposure to prose and poetry from a wide variety of sources and periods. Focus on oral proficiency, reading, comprehension, and writing.

An introduction to the culture of medieval Russia through its written records, folklore, icons, and ancient religious chant.

An exploration of Russian modernist culture, with particular attention to the themes of social and political change. Authors under discussion include Kuzmin, Bely, and Zamyatin.

An examination of the influence of Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey on Russian culture, as seen in works by Russian writers including Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Brodsky.

An examination of Russian writers reflecting on Russian national identity, including Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, and Grossman.

Reading and research on selected topics in Russian. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title.

Intensive reading course for non-majors. Primarily for graduate students to fulfill the foreign- language reading requirement. It will not be applied toward the degree language requirements nor will it be accepted as a substitute in the course sequence leading to the various degree requirements.

Intensive reading course for non-majors. Primarily for graduate students to fulfill the foreign-language reading requirement. It will not be applied toward the degree language requirements nor will it be accepted as a substitute in the course sequence leading to the various degree requirements.

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Restricted to those who have never studied Spanish or placed by examination into SPAN 109. Credit may be received only for one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110; SPAN 111; or SPAN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Restricted to those who have completed SPAN 109. Credit may be received only for one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110; SPAN 111; or SPAN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Intensive introduction to grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Admission only to highly motivated beginning students who obtain the permission of the department. Credit may be received only for one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110, SPAN 111, or SPAN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Grammar and vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes prior experience in Spanish. Admission only by proficiency examination. Credit may be received for only one of the following: SPAN 109, SPAN 110, SPAN 111, or SPAN 121.

Carolina Core: GFL

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills.

Carolina Core: GFL

Further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Use of authentic cultural materials.

Continued development of the four skills practiced in SPAN 209.

Further development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Designed for highly motivated students. Credit not awarded for both SPAN 209-SPAN 210 and SPAN 211.

Selected major works, especially contemporary works, in all genres of Hispanic literature in English translation.

Carolina Core: AIU

Contract approved by instructor, director, and department chair required. May be repeated. Maximum of 3 hours may apply towards major or minor.

In-depth study of advanced grammatical structures of Spanish to develop proficiency in all 4 skills and cultural competency. Gateway course for Spanish majors.

Development of advanced composition skills in Spanish on a variety of topics related to cultural production of the Spanish-speaking world.

Cultural readings about the Spanish-speaking world, and advanced speaking skills practice through various strategies such as group discussions, debates, presentations.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Crosscultural approaches to interactions with persons of Hispanic origin in a variety of professional settings. Readings, speakers, media. Taught in Spanish. Departmental permission required for transfer students.

Cross-listed course: LASP 305

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Global Learning

Intensive grammar practice, enhancement of reading and writing skills for individuals raised in a Spanish-speaking household but with little or no formal Spanish instruction. Restricted to heritage speakers, as defined in Bulletin description.

Approaches to reading literary texts through carefully selected readings from different genres.

Commercial organizations and business in Spanish-speaking countries, business correspondence, terminology, and techniques in commercial transactions. Standardized examinations available such as the Certificado de la Camara de Comercio de Madrid.

Analysis of and practice in pronunciation, listening comprehension, and dialect recognition based on study of the speech sounds, combinations, patterns, and processes of Spanish phonetics and phonology. Department permission required for transfer students.

Cross-listed course: LING 314

Intensive language practice in native environment with emphasis on oral skills. Instruction by native speakers; community contact, and home stay. May be repeated once for credit. Restricted to participants of the USC Spanish Summer Global Classroom Program.

Health professionals' functional and lexical language ability, cultural information, etiquette and protocol necessary to interact with Spanish speakers.

Course content treating cultural and literary themes varies.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Investigation of Spanish cultures through the study of its films and the cinematic medium.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning

Investigation of Latin American cultures through the study of films and the cinematic medium.

Intensive study of selected topics of the Hispanic world. Taught in English.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students. Department permission required for transfer students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Survey of the cultures of Spain via readings, visual culture, and discussion.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Survey of the cultures of Latin America via readings, visual culture, and discussion.

A survey of literature, such as novels, short stories and poems, from Spain.

A survey of literature, such as novels, short stories and poems, from Latin America.

Vocabulary, concepts, and oral/written skills necessary to communicate effectively in the social, cultural, or economic infrastructure of Hispanic countries. Introduction to the use of technology for the acquisition and processing of materials relevant to students’ professional goals.

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title. This course will be taught in Spanish.

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title. Taught in English.

A special seminar devoted to the in-depth study of selected subjects in Hispanic literature, culture, or language. Required for the intensive major in Spanish.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Analysis and discussion of 20th-century Spanish history and the sociocultural forces that have contributed to define this country’s national identity. Taught in Spanish.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Analysis and discussion of contemporary Latin American history and the sociocultural forces that have contributed to define this area's national identities. Taught in Spanish.

Introduction to translation and practice of skills required for professional and technical Spanish/English translation.

Phonology, morphology, and syntax of modern Spanish.

Cross-listed course: LING 504

Description of the grammatical structures of Modern Spanish. Intensive study of the theory and practice of word formation and sentence structure of Spanish.

Cross-listed course: LING 554

Introduction to the study of phonetics and phonology and their application to the sounds and sound systems of English and Spanish. Includes transcription practice and discussion of relevance to teaching.

Cross-listed course: LING 514

Survey of Spanish literature from its first manifestations to La Celestina. Introduction; early works; the epic; 13th- through 15th-century prose and verse; Berceo, Alfonso X, Juan Ruiz, Marques de Santillana; others.

Survey of the works of Garcilaso, the Spanish mystics, Lope, Quevedo, Tirso, Calderon, Gongora and others.

Survey of the works of the major literary figures of the period.

Survey of major peninsular writers from the Generation of ‘98 to the present.

Survey of pre-Columbian poetry and of texts dating from the time of Columbus to the end of the Colonial period.

Cross-listed course: LASP 541

Survey of the most significant works of the Independence through Modernism.

Intensive language practice in native environment with special emphasis on oral skills. Instruction by native speakers; extensive community contact and home stay. Prior placement test required.

Survey of the most significant works of this period.

Survey of the most significant works from 1960 to the present.

Cross-listed course: LASP 471

Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive reading for non-majors. Graduate students fulfill their foreign-language requirement with successful completion of the course. Undergraduates may take the course as an elective only by permission.

Grammar and practical vocabulary necessary for fundamental communication skills. Assumes no prior experience in the language. Offered only in fall.

Practice and further development of essential listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. Offered in spring and summer II semesters.

Development of reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills; introduction of East African culture. SWAH 201 offered in fall, SWAH 202 offered in spring.

Development of reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills; introduction of East African culture. SWAH 201 offered in fall, SWAH 202 offered in spring.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor and department chair is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research