World Languages and Cultures Current Courses

SPRING 2024 COURSES

FRENCH

French 102-1 Continuing Elementary French

A. Bayat 4 Units TTH 8:00-9:40 AM

For students with one or two years of secondary study of

French (or the equivalent). This course continues the

development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topics. For students who have already completed level 1. This course fulfills the Second Language Proficiency requirement of the Core Curriculum.

French 301-1 French Literary Perspectives

C. Malary 4 Units MWF 10:40-11:45 AM

This course focuses on essential aspects of French syntax and on developing composition skills. Translation techniques and analysis of model texts serve as means of improving self-expression and written communication. This course fulfills the Arts or Humanities Analysis and Global Issues & Perspectives requirements of the Core Curriculum.

ITALIAN

Italian 102-1 Continuing Elementary Italian

M. DeAngelis 4 Units MWF 10:40-11:45 AM

For students with one or two years of secondary study of Italian (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topics. This course fulfills the Second Language Proficiency

requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Italian 301-1 Continuing Intermediate Italian

M. De Angelis 4 Units MWF 12:05-1:10 PM

For students with three or four years of secondary study of Italian (or the equivalent). This course offers an abbreviated review of primary structures and concentrates heavily on developing communicative ability through readings, music and visual resources. For students who have completed an overview of basic grammar and are ready to combine and apply their language skills in most settings. This course fulfills the Engaged Learning requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Italian 301 EL Continuing Intermediate Italian

M. De Angelis 1 Unit TBD

Students examine historical and contemporary issues connected with immigration and conduct life history interviews with members of the Italian American community around the Bay Area. They focus on the history of people who have kept Italian culture alive. Students must enroll in Italian 301. This course fulfills the Engaged Learning requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Italian 350-1 Italian Language Tutorial

M. De Angelis 1 Unit M 1:30-2:20 PM

Italian language study that specifies and sharpens the Italian content of WLC 300. This course fulfills the Arts & Humanities Practice and Creative Practice requirements of the Core Curriculum.

Italian 496-1 Capstone

M. De Angelis 1 Unit M 1:30-2:20 PM

An independent project integrating language and culture designed in consultation with an instructor in a student’s language studies area.

JAPANESE

Japanese 102-1 Continuing Elementary Japanese

N. Uehara 4 Units MWF 10:40-11:45 AM

For students with one or two years of secondary study of Japanese (or the equivalent).This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topics.

Japanese 120-1 Basic Japanese Culture

N. Uehara 1 Unit W 1:30-2:20 PM

An introductory survey of interesting aspects of Japanese culture.

Japanese 301-1 Continuing Intermediate Japanese

N. Uehara 4 Units MWF 12:05-1:10 PM

For students with three or four years of secondary study of Japanese (or the equivalent). Along with review of grammar structures, this course gives increased attention to improving communicative skills. Students completing this course are ready to combine and apply their language skills in most settings. This course fulfills the Engaged Learning requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Japanese 301 EL Continuing Intermediate Japanese

N. Uehara 1 Unit TBD

This course fulfills the engaged learning core requirement through the Hiroshima Survivors Heritage Project. Students will meet Hiroshima City University over Zoom and in person, and assist the students in planning and collecting interviews, editing and compiling materials, and preparing their presentations. Students must enroll in Japanese 301. This course fulfills the Engaged Learning requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Japanese 320-1 Advanced Japanese Culture

N. Uehara 1 Units W 2:20-3:10 PM

A deep dive into intriguing topics of Japanese culture.

Japanese 350-1 Japanese Language Tutorial

N. Uehara 1 Units M 1:30- 2:20 PM

SPANISH

Spa 102-1 Continuing Elementary Spanish

R. Darakjian 4 Units MWF 8:00AM-9:05 AM

For students with one or two years of secondary study of Spanish (or the equivalent). This course continues the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing, emphasizing conversation on everyday topics. This course fulfills the Second Language Proficiency requirement of the Core Curriculum.

Spa 302-1 Introduction to Literature

C. Malary 4 Units MWF 12:05-1:10 PM

Introduction to literary analysis. This course requires close reading of texts and emphasizes extensive writing about literature. Examination of the notion of genre, narrative devices, structure, etc. Required for all majors and minors. This course fulfills the Arts and Humanities Analysis and Global Issues and Perspectives requirements of the Core Curriculum.

Spa 496-1 Capstone

D. Bird 1 Unit M 9:15-10:05 AM

Required of all Spanish majors in the spring of their senior year. This course is designated to help assess and integrate the knowledge they have acquired through their major courses, and consider what they have learned in the context of their overall undergraduate experience.

WLC

WLC 300-1 Modern Critical Theory

C. Malary 3 Units MW 3:20-4:35 PM

Wittingly or unwittingly, the bulk of the courses in our department mostly celebrate French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish civilization, or culture, from the perspective of the colonizer. More often than not, celebration is our default mode. Against that current, this course aims to foreground colonization in order to critique it, either from the perspective of the colonized or from that of those Western scholars who critically transcend the perspective of the colonizer and/or deconstruct the logic of empire-building. This course fulfills the Global and Perspectives requirement of the Core Curriculum.