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department AAL African and Asian Languages (X) |
What does our language use reflect about us as individuals and as societies? This course will provide the student with a broad introduction to areas of research and investigation within sociolinguistics, incorporating personal reflection on language as a theme for written assignments.
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This course is designed for students who have acquired some oral proficiency from home. It introduces grammar, 900 single characters and 2000 compound words of standard modern Mandarin Chinese, e.g.vernacular Chinese. It emphasizes reading as well as writing. Students will learn to read essays and short stories. They will learn to write notes, letters, and essays. They will also learn to make speeches in public in Chinese. The textbooks that we use are compiled by Beijing Language Institute, Princeton University and Beijing University.
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This introductory Turkish class is open to undergraduate and graduate students. This is the first of a sequence of 3 courses from Fall to Spring. The course presents the essential points of modern Turkish grammar, with special emphasis on the features that differentiate Turkic languages from other language groups. The goal will be to achieve proficiency in using the case endings, vowel harmony, basic verb conjugations, and nominalizations and participles in reading and writing. Through the use of communicative exercises in class, oral proficiency skills should reach the Ânovice high level by the end of the first year.
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This intermediate Turkish class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who have completed first-year Turkish or the equivalent. Students with some background in Turkish may also qualify with the permission of the instructor. This is the first of a year-long sequence of three courses running from fall to spring. It will stress the features that differentiate Turkic languages from other language groups, and will complete the coverage of Turkish grammar that was begun in the first year, using the same two texts and additional sources as well. Audio materials, recorded selections, and in-class communicative exercises will further sharpen speaking and listening skills. Attention will be given to the areas of interest of individual students, in order to develop appropriate practical vocabulary.
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This is an introductory year-long course in elementary Korean. The course is for students who know the Korean alphabet and have a limited oral proficiency. This course is designed to develop sutdents' all-around communicative skills in speaking, reading and writing.
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This course is designed for Korean heritage students with some oral proficiency and some basic reading and writing skills. The objective of this class is to reinforce the aspects that heritage students are usually weak, such as vocabularies, common grammatical and spelling errors, and to enhance their reading and writing skills so that they could develop a more balanced proficiency in four language areas - - listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This class accelerates two-years of Korean classes (Korean I & Korean II) into a year.
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This year-long elementary Persian course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. This will be a 3-course sequence running from fall to spring quarters. A variety of materials will be used. Besides the main textbook and its accompanying CD, workbook exercises will be used for training in the Perso-Arabic script. Films, music, and lab projects will also play a role in the course. Oral proficiency skills should reach the Ânovice high level by the end of the first year. Elementary and Intermediate Persian can be used to satisfy the WCAS 2-year language requirement.
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This year-long intermediate Persian course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who have completed first-year Persian or the equivalent. Students with some background in Persian may also qualify with permission of the instructor. This will be a 3-course sequence running from fall to spring quarters. A variety of texts will be used, some for grammar refinement, some for exposure to different sorts of Persian literature (classical or contemporary prose and poetry, journalistic or scholarly styles), some to develop familiarity with the oral colloquial language.
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This is an advanced level course in Hebrew. Literary works from Old Testament to contemporary Hebrew prose and poetry will be read, discussed and analyzed orally and in writing.
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Japanese IV is a series of four advanced Japanese language courses. Each course (AAL 318-1, -2, -3, and -4) is designed to provide students with opportunities to further develop their overall Japanese language proficiency, to deepen their understanding of Japanese culture through attention to socio-linguistic elements, and to familiarize them with various styles of language use. Each course prepares students to be more autonomous users of Japanese language. The courses need not be taken in numerical sequence. Because the modern language was reformed after World War II, 318-4, "Reading Japanese Literature in Japanese," introduces pre-1946 modern Japanese literature in its original, un-edited form (kyu-kanji and kyu-kanazukai) and focuses on translating with accuracy and fluency, and placing the writings in literary and historical context.
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This first course in a three-course sequence completed by AAL 111-B, and 111-C introduces the material of the Elementary Chinese curriculum, presenting the Pinyin system, grammar, writing characters (both traditional and simplified Chinese characters) and compound words of standard modern Mandarin Chinese. This course aims to help true beginners develop their communicative competence in four basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. During highly student-centered class meetings, the explanation of grammar and characters writing is in English, and the instructor mainly uses Chinese for oral drills, sentence buildup, and conversation. The Blackboard online multimedia facilities are used to enhance students' learning efforts. Business Chinese is available upon request to meet the needs of students who wish to use Chinese in business and professional environments.
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This is a course in elementary modern Hebrew. The course is designed to develop all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and an explicit knowledge of Hebrew grammar.
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This third course (105-3) helps students to build vocabulary and consolidate their skills in the different modalities and presents some of the more complex, but still fairly fundamental, sentence structures.
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An ethnomusicological journey through Central/Inner Asia. The diversity of peoples in the region broadly ranging East to West from Northwestern China to the Volga River, and North to South from Siberia to Afghanistan will be explored through the medium of their traditional musical cultures.
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The course is designed to build up a basic vocabulary for conversation, listening, reading and writing.
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This is a year-long elementary Japanese course starting each Fall. In this course students will develop four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) through communicative activities. Various functions of grammar patterns will be introduced in order to develop practical communication skills. The students are expected to solidify their knowledge of basic Japanese grammar. The students will also learn various aspects of Japanese culture and society. Upon the satisfactory completion of the course, students will be able to greet, introduce themselves, discuss their daily routines and experiences and write letters to teachers and friends.
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This introductory Turkish class is open to undergraduate and graduate students. This is a part of a sequence of 3 courses from Fall to Spring. The course presents the essential points of modern Turkish grammar, with special emphasis on the features that differentiate Turkish languages from other language groups. The goal will be to achieve proficiency in using the case endings, vowel harmony, basic verb conjugations, and nominalizations and participles in reading and writing. Through the use of communicative exercises in class, oral proficiency skills should reach the "novice high" level by the end of the first year.
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This intermediate Turkish class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who have completed first-year Turkish or the equivalent. Students with some background in Turkish may also qualify with the permission of the instructor. This is the first of a year-long sequence of three courses running from fall to spring. It will stress the features that differentiate Turkic languages from other language groups, and will complete the coverage of Turkish grammar that was begun in the first year, using the same two texts and additional sources as well. Audio materials, recorded selections, and in-class communicative exercises will further sharpen speaking and listening skills. Attention will be given to the areas of interest of individual students, in order to develop appropriate practical vocabulary.
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This course is designed for Korean heritage students with some oral proficiency and some basic reading and writing skills. The objective of this class is to reinforce the aspects that heritage students are usually weak, such as vocabularies, common grammatical and spelling errors, and to enhance their reading and writing skills so that they could develop a more balanced proficiency in four language areas - - listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This class accelerates two-years of Korean classes (Korean I & Korean II) into a year.
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In this quarter we will try to bring together all the grammar and vocabulary acquired over the past two years. One of the ways to achieve that will be the making of a video (group project). We will keep watching Hindi movie clips and do assignments based on those. We will also find ways through in-class conversations, the video project, etc. to hone Hindi speaking skills. Finally, we will learn more about Indian culture via festivals and excerpts from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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This introductory Persian course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, and to students with some background in Persian as well as to those entirely new to the language. The course runs for 3 consecutive quarters, Fall 2005 to Spring 2006. The basics of Persian grammar are presented, and these are reinforced by in-class dialogs and readings. By the end of the first year, students should be able to read and write Persian script with ease and make themselves understood in most practical situations.
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This year-long intermediate Persian course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who have completed first-year Persian or the equivalent. Students with some background in Persian may also qualify with permission of the instructor. This will be a 3-course sequence running from fall to spring quarters. A variety of texts will be used, some for grammar refinement, some for exposure to different sorts of Persian literature (classical or contemporary prose and poetry, journalistic or scholarly styles), some to develop familiarity with the oral colloquial language.
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This is the third-year course, and is open to undergraduate and graduate students who have completed second-year Swahili or its equivalent. Graduate students register as 410-3 section 23. The course is an introductory study of modern Standard Swahili verbal arts texts in all genres and a survey of the history of this literature.
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This course is designed to further improve students' reading and writing abilities in Chinese language and Chinese literature. Students will be exposed to essays, prose, movies, short novels, and poems in their original forms either in classical Chinese or modern Chinese. In terms of authors, students will be introduced to Gao Xingjian, Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Hu Shi, Jiang Menglin, Xiao Qjan, Long Yinggtai, Mao Dun, Wu Jingzi, Cao Xue Qjin, and the Three Sus, ranging from novelists, playwriters, to poets covering from the perioud of 1000 AD to today. Students will discuss these readings in class and then write their argumentation papers either in Chinese or in English.
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Japanese IV is a series of four advanced Japanese language courses. Each course (318-1, 2 and 4) is designed to provide the students with opportunities to further develop their overall Japanese language proficiency, to deepen their understanding of Japanese culture and socio-linguistic elements and to familiarize the students with various styles of language use. Each course prepares the students to be more autonomous learners. 318-1 focuses on reading contemporary Japanese literary works (poems, essays, short novels).
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