Modern Languages

ML 114 Linguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
This course explores models of language acquisition, reasoning and understanding in teaching second languages through readings from linguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive science, and education. Students connect theory with practical experience from the context of elementary, middle, and high school levels. Cross-listed with GER 114, ED 114. Stoessel

WL 17 Love and Sexuality in World Literature
A study of love and sexuality through the literature of Japan and Russia.  What is love?  How is sexuality understood?  Why has the linkage between these two “constants” of human life been seen as problematic?   No reading knowledge of Japanese or Russian required. Cross listed with JPN 91, CIV 17. In English. Inouye/Carleton

WL 71 Scandinavian Literature
Introduction to selected works of Old Norse, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish literature, with discussion of their cultural background, from the Snorra Edda and Old Icelandic heroic lays and sagas to works by Andersen, Hamsun, Lägerkvist, and Dinesen.  Ascher

WL 122 South African Writers
Survey of modern South African writers, with emphasis on the effects of Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid struggle on the life of the imagination, including literary, film, and theatre evocations of South African life. Writers may include Alan Paton, Lewis Nkosi, J. M. Coetzee, Agnes Sam, Zoë Wicomb, Athol Fugard, Njabulo Ndebele, Miriam Tlali, Breyten Breytenbach, Mongane Serote, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Besse Head. No prerequisites. Rosenberg

CIV 91 Film and Nation: Russia & Central Asia
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia and some former Central Asian republics, now the independent countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have embarked on a nation-building project through cinema.  We will explore national identity, national space, new heroes and new national myths in films ranging from the Russian mega-hits, Peculiarities of the National Hunt and Brother to the international art-cinema favorites, The Adopted Son (Kyrgyzstan) and The Hunter (Kazakhstan). No prerequisites. All films with English subtitles.  Cross listed ILVS 91, RUS 91. Johnson

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