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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

World Languages and Literatures



www.smu.edu/worldlanguages

Associate Professor Elizabeth Russ, Department Chair

American Sign Language
Lecturer: Tiffany McCray

Arabic
Senior Lecturers
: Liljana Elverskog, Omar Al-Rashdan

Chinese
Senior Lecturer
: Wei Qu, Yan Xia
Lecturers: Xiao Hu

French
Professors: Thomas DiPiero, Dayna Oscherwitz
Associate Professors: Maxime Foerster, Hervé Tchumkam
Senior Lecturers: Gwendoline Aaron, Paola Buckley, Janet Dodd, Rachel Ney, Thierry Tirado, Omar Al-Rashdan
Lecturers: James Batchelor, Caroline Grubbs, Yuliya Kruchkova, Stefano Maranzana, Antoinette Williams-Tutt

German
Senior Lecturer: Stephen Grollman
Lecturer: Gizem Arlsan

Greek
Lecturer: Justin Michael Germain

Italian
Senior Lecturers: Brandy Alvarez, Damiano Bonuomo, Teresa Brentegani
Lecturers: 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: Miroslava Detcheva, Maria Eguez, Susana Fernandez-Solera, Verónica León, Maria Villar Martin, Leticia McDoniel, Lourdes Molina, Joy Saunders
Lecturers: Michael Allred, Donna Binkowski, Sarah Bogard, Marlen Y. Collazo, Rachel Hall, Constantin Icleanu, Allison Larkin, Ana Acosta Melgarejo, Maria del Pilar Melgarejo, Talia Weltman-Cisneros

Russian
Lecturers: Tatiana Zimakova, Yuliya Kruchkova

General Information

The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers nine 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, 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.

Departmental Distinction

  1. Overall 3.500 GPA by the middle of the junior year.
  2. Overall 3.700 GPA in the major by the middle of the junior year.
  3. Invitation of area faculty after the area as a whole has discussed the student’s candidacy.
  4. 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.

Majors, Minors and Courses in World Languages

Requirements for a B.A. degree in French, French Studies, 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.

Programs

    Major(s)Minor(s)

    Courses

      World Languages and Literatures

      All WL/WLAN courses are conducted in English.

      Chinese Culture and Literature WL 3310, WL 3325, WL 3397
      Francophone Culture and Literature WL 3309, WL 3317, WL 3327, WL 3328, WL 3330, WL 3341, WL 3355, WL 3361 (SMU-in-Paris only), WL 3362, WL 3363, WL 3365 (elective does not count toward the French major), WL 4310, WL 4365
      German Culture and Literature WL 3318, WL 3369, WL 3374, WL 3379
      Italian Culture and Literature WL 2395, WL 3319, WL 3378, WL 3390 (FILM 3390), WL 3391, WL 3393, WL 3394
      Russian Culture and Literature WL 3323 (HIST 2323), WL 3331, WL 3332
      Hispanophone Culture and Literature WL 2330, WL 3303, WL 3305, WL 3306, WL 3324, WL 3360, WL 3364, WL 3371, WL 3372, WL 3373, WL 3376, WL 3377, WL 3382, WL 3396, WL 4345
      Linguistics WL 3308, WL 3342, WL 3375
      Transnational/Interdisciplinary Cultural and Literary Studies WL 3301, WL 3302, WL 3316, WL 3340, WL 3349, WL 3350, WL 3359, WL 3380, WL 3381, WL 4311
      Internship WL 4185, WL 4285, WL 4385

       

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