2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
World Languages and Literatures
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www.smu.edu/worldlanguages
Associate Professor Elizabeth Russ, Department Chair
ARABIC: Senior Lecturers: Liljana Elverskog, Omar Al-Rashdan
CHINESE: Senior Lecturer: Yan Xia
Lecturers: Xiao Hu, Wei Qu
FRENCH: Professors: Thomas DiPiero, Dayna Oscherwitz
Associate Professors: Maxime Foerster, Hervé Tchumkam
Senior Lecturers: Gwendoline Aaron, Paola Buckley, Janet Dodd, Martine Kincaid, Thierry Tirado, Omar Al-Rashdan
Lecturers: James Batchelor, Caroline Grubbs, Yuliya Kruchkova, Stefano Maranzana, 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, Stefano Maranzana
JAPANESE: Senior Lecturer: Keiko Flores
LATIN: Lecturer: Justin Michael Germain
Instructor: Patti Rawlins
SPANISH: Professor: 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, Lourdes Molina, Joy Saunders
Lecturers: Michael Allred, Donna Binkowski, Sarah Bogard, Marlen Y. Collazo, Miroslava Detcheva, Rachel Hall, Constantin Icleanu, Allison Larkin, Maria Villar Martin, Ana Acosta Melgarejo, Maria del Pilar Melgarejo,
RUSSIAN: Lecturer: 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, International Film Studies, 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, International Film Studies, Italian, Italian Area Studies, Japanese, Latin, Russian Area Studies and Spanish are given below.
ProgramsMajor(s)Minor(s)CoursesSpanish
World Languages and Literatures
All WL/WLAN courses are conducted in English.
Chinese Culture and Literature |
WL 3310, 3312, 3325, 3395 |
Francophone Cultures |
WL 3361 (SMU-in-Paris only), WL 3365, 3366 (Electives that do not count toward the French major.) |
German Culture |
WL 3321, WL 3322, 4321, 4322, 5326 |
Italian Culture and Literature |
WL 2201, WL 2395, WL 3390 (FILM 3390), WL 3391–WL 3394 |
Russian Culture |
WL 2343, WL 3323 (HIST 2323) |
Hispanophone Culture and Literature |
WL 3303, WL 3305, WL 3306, WL 3360, WL 3371, WL 3372, WL 3373, WL 3376, WL 3396, WL 4345 |
Linguistics |
WL 3308, WL 3375 |
- WL 2330 - Formation of the Spanish Identity: Heroes, Villains, and Outcasts in History, Literature, and Art
- WL 2395 - Italian Culture
- WL 3301 - Introduction to Literary Translation
- WL 3302 - Ethnoviolence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- WL 3303 - Topics in Spanish Civilization
- WL 3306 - Chicano Cultural Heritage
- WL 3308 - Introduction to General Linguistics
- WL 3309 - French Cinema: 1945 to the Present
- WL 3310 - Transnational Chinese Cinema
- WL 3316 - Revolutions in Thought: Continental Philosophy from Marx to Derrida
- WL 3317 - French Gastronomy and Culture
- WL 3318 - Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights in German-Speaking Contexts
- WL 3323 - Russian Culture
- WL 3325 - Perspective on Modern China
- WL 3327 - Les Misérables
- WL 3328 - French Women Writers
- WL 3330 - Migration, Occupation, and Independence in North African Cinema
- WL 3331 - Survey: Russian Literature in Translation
- WL 3332 - Special Topics: Russian Literature in Translation
- WL 3340 - Semiotics and Interpretation
- WL 3341 - The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- WL 3342 - Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- WL 3349 - The African Diaspora: Literature and History of Black Liberation
- WL 3350 - Existentialism and Literature
- WL 3355 - Tradition, Community, and Identity in African Cinema
- WL 3359 - Masculinities: Images and Perspectives
- WL 3360 - Immigrant Representations in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
- WL 3362 - Postcolonial France
- WL 3363 - Figuring the Feminine
- WL 3364 - Cuban Civilization and Culture
- WL 3365 - Special Topics French Literature in Translation
- WL 3369 - Perspectives on Modern Germany
- WL 3371 - Latin America Through Film
- WL 3372 - Relocating Latinos and Their Cultures
- WL 3373 - The Short Story in Latin America
- WL 3374 - Sex, Gender, and Identity in Germany from the Late 19th Century to the Present
- WL 3375 - Introduction to Psycholinguistics
- WL 3376 - Literature and Nation in Spanish America
- WL 3377 - Havana as Revolution: The Cuban Capital in the National and Global Imagination
- WL 3378 - Pompeii: Life Interrupted
- WL 3379 - Modern German Culture From the Enlightenment to the Present
- WL 3380 - Classical Latin Literature in Translation
- WL 3381 - Exploring the Greco-Roman World: Fact, Fiction, and Film
- WL 3382 - Texas-Mexico Borderlands: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic Story
- WL 3390 - Italian Cinema
- WL 3391 - Italian Literature in Translation: The Italian Novel
- WL 3393 - Dante’s Poetic Vision
- WL 3394 - Boccaccio’s Decameron and Medieval Storytelling
- WL 3396 - Leadership and Ethics in Literature
- WL 3397 - China Before 1850
- WL 4185 - Internship: World Languages
- WL 4285 - Internship: World Languages
- WL 4310 - French Muslim Citizens and the Algerian War: The Harkis
- WL 4311 - Literature and Theology: Catholic Thought From Augustine to the Present
- WL 4345 - Gender and Human Rights in Latin American Women Writers
- WL 4365 - Introduction to French Cinema
- WL 4385 - Internship: World Language
World Languages
All WL/WLAN courses are conducted in English.
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