Modern Language
Graduate Courses
ML 601-Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies. (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. An introduction to the most prominent approaches to teaching foreign languages at the college level. The course aims to explore a comprehensive set of practices for a proficiency oriented language pedagogy. To that end, it will discuss the role of the instructor, recent methodological patterns, the incorporation of grammar, communicative skills areas, context, testing, as well as syllabus and curriculum design. The course will also feature a technological component via the discussion of the use Internet-based and digital technology for the development of communicative skills and through the inclusion of on-line class meetings. 4 credits.
ML 602-Foreign Language Acquisition.(back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. This course will study the process of acquiring a foreign language with an emphasis on the learner's experience at the college level. The course will emphasize cognitive and socio cultural aspects of language learning and stress the development of communicative proficiencies both within and without the classroom context. The impact of technology on language learning will also be explored through course readings and on-line class meetings. (4 credits)
ML 603-Culture and Literature in Foreign Language Instruction-(back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. This course explores the different and often contrasting ways in which culture and literature have been taught within the foreign language context at the college level. Ultimately, the course proposed the use of both elite and popular culture so as to redefine the language classroom as a place where students gain an essential awareness about international issues and patters. A technological component will also be present in an exploration of digital video for language learning and Internet-based literary analysis as well as via on-line class meetings.
ML 601-Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies. (back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. An introduction to the most prominent approaches to teaching foreign languages at the college level. The course aims to explore a comprehensive set of practices for a proficiency oriented language pedagogy. To that end, it will discuss the role of the instructor, recent methodological patterns, the incorporation of grammar, communicative skills areas, context, testing, as well as syllabus and curriculum design. The course will also feature a technological component via the discussion of the use Internet-based and digital technology for the development of communicative skills and through the inclusion of on-line class meetings. 4 credits.
ML 602-Foreign Language Acquisition.(back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate Certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. This course will study the process of acquiring a foreign language with an emphasis on the learner's experience at the college level. The course will emphasize cognitive and socio cultural aspects of language learning and stress the development of communicative proficiencies both within and without the classroom context. The impact of technology on language learning will also be explored through course readings and on-line class meetings. (4 credits)
ML 603-Culture and Literature in Foreign Language Instruction-(back to previous page)
Prerequisites: Admission into the Graduate certificate in Foreign Language Teaching program or permission from the instructor. This course explores the different and often contrasting ways in which culture and literature have been taught within the foreign language context at the college level. Ultimately, the course proposed the use of both elite and popular culture so as to redefine the language classroom as a place where students gain an essential awareness about international issues and patters. A technological component will also be present in an exploration of digital video for language learning and Internet-based literary analysis as well as via on-line class meetings.