2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
World Languages and Literatures
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www.smu.edu/worldlanguages
Associate Professor Dayna Oscherwitz, Department Chair
ARABIC: Senior Lecturer: Liljana Elverskog
Lecturer: Omar Al-Rashdan
CHINESE: Senior Lecturer: Yan Xia
Professors of Practice: Xiao Hu, Wei Qu
FRENCH: Professor: Thomas DiPiero
Associate Professors: Maxime Foerster, Dayna Oscherwitz, Hervé Tchumkam
Senior Lecturers: Gwendoline Aaron, Paola Buckley, Janet Dodd, Martine Kincaid, Thierry Tirado
Lecturers: Omar Al-Rashdan, James Batchelor, Caroline Grubbs, Rachel Ney
GERMAN: Associate Professor: Marie-Luise Gäettens
Senior Lecturer: Stephen Grollman
Lecturer: Gizem Arlsan
ITALIAN: Senior Lecturers: Brandy Alvarez, Teresa Brentegani
Lecturers: Damiano Bonuomo, Daniele Forlino
JAPANESE: Senior Lecturer: Keiko Flores
LATIN: Lecturer: Justin Michael Germain
Instructor: Patti Rawlins
SPANISH: Professors: Denise DuPont
Associate Professors: Olga Colbert, Luis Maldonado-Peña, Alberto Pastor, Elizabeth Russ, Rubén Sánchez-Godoy, Gabriela Vokic, Alicia Zuese
Senior Lecturers: Maria Eguez, Susana Fernandez-Solera, Verónica León, Leticia McDoniel, Joy Saunders
Lecturers: Donna Binkowski, Sarah Bogard, Marlen Y. Collazo, Miroslava Detcheva, Rachel Hall, Constantin Icleanu, Michael Korrie, Allison Larkin, Maria Villar Martin, Ana Acosta Melgarejo, Maria del Pilar Melgarejo, Lourdes Molina, Luis Polanco,
RUSSIAN: Instructor: Tatiana Zimakova
The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers eight modern languages and two classical languages. Students may pursue a B.A. degree in French, French Studies, German, Spanish, and World Languages and minors in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Italian Area Studies, Japanese, Latin, Russian Area Studies, and Spanish. The B.A. in World Languages allows students to specialize in two different languages.
In pursuing language study, students gain communicative proficiency in a second or third language, as well as cultural proficiency and heightened global awareness. Courses taught toward a language major or minor emphasize all of these through the study of communication, culture, literature, linguistics, history, film, politics business, and other diverse aspects of language and culture. Students may also apply these skills through a language-based internship, either in Dallas or abroad, and through independent research.
SMU Abroad Rules for Credit. Students participating in an SMU Abroad term program may automatically count nine credit hours of courses taught in an approved program toward a B.A. and six credit hours toward a minor. Students studying abroad for a full year may apply 15 credit hours with specific approval from the area chair of the language.
- Overall 3.500 GPA by the middle of the junior year.
- Overall 3.700 GPA in the major by the middle of the junior year.
- Invitation of area faculty after the area as a whole has discussed the student’s candidacy.
- Two extra courses beyond the requirements for the major. One course must include a major research paper, to be undertaken and completed in the first term of the candidate’s senior year.
Requirements for a B.A. degree in French, French Studies, German, Spanish and World Languages, as well as for minors in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Italian Area Studies, Japanese, Latin, Russian Area Studies and Spanish are given below.
ProgramsMajor(s)Minor(s)CoursesArabic
Chinese
Danish
French
German
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