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Read article: Spanish alumna helps underrepresented students keep an eye on the future
Spanish alumna helps underrepresented students keep an eye on the future
Entering the workforce after graduating can seem daunting, especially when you don’t know what the professional landscape will look like in the next five years.Kelley Francis (BA, ’09, Spanish) is helping students from the Hispanic community prepare to...
Read article: David Cooper elected president of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
David Cooper elected president of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
David Cooper, professor and head of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, has been elected president of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). ASEEES was established in 1948 as a nonprofit, non-political,...
Read article: SLCL faculty members promoted
SLCL faculty members promoted
Ten faculty members from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics have received promotions. The promotions include four faculty members who were promoted from associate professor to professor and six who were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. They're...

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Introduction to Intercultural Competence

Introductory overview aiming to define and practice intercultural competence by examining how to use it in educational, professional, and social settings.

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Viking Sagas in Translation

Studies Old Norse-Icelandic literature: kings' sagas, family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas, and romances. Texts and lectures in English.

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Language, Mind, and Brain

How does our brain process, learn, and produce language? Does it differ across languages? How is our brain different from AI? In this course, you will learn about the theoretical ideas, experimental techniques and findings, and major controversies in psycholinguistics.

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Yugoslav Cinema

Socialist Yugoslavia is known for its subversive and experimental cinema. This course explores the prominent genres, movements, and themes of both post-WWII socialist Yugoslavia and its post-socialist successor states after 1991.

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Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome

This course is a short-term, faculty-led program where students will have the opportunity to explore the role of sports in ancient Greek and Roman society.

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Spanish in the Professions

Introduction to Spanish in business, law, medical, education, and social service fields, with a focus on the importance of bilingualism in the U.S., strategies for lifelong learning, and cultural considerations.

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Tokyo: Then and Now

In this course, you will learn about the city of Tokyo through maps and artwork, its literary and culinary creativity, its markets and marketplaces, its quaint neighborhoods and bustling city centers, and its place in film, manga, and anime.

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Crime, Punishment, and Redemption in the U.S.

This course fosters a deep analysis of the U.S. criminal-penal system with special attention to the role of religion and explores the religious concepts that have informed our moral imaginations regarding crime, punishment, redemption, and the socio-political resistance against our criminal-penal system.

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Computer-Assisted Translation

A foundation course in the history, technical underpinnings and functionality of computer-assisted translation (CAT). Students work with several CAT tools and learn the functions and features of CAT.

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Italian Culture and Globalization

Introduction to factors that have shaped present-day Italy, with particular attention to globalization; basic concepts contributing to understanding its present social and cultural development in a European and global context.

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Literature and Ideas

Exploration of the relation between literature and ideas through in depth study of modern thinkers, theorists, and philosophers who have greatly impacted the comparative study of literature, such as Marx, Freud, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Said.

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