| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Education and Language Acquisition Department (X) |
This course for beginners is designed to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills through work in the classroom and the language laboratory.
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This course is a continuation of ELA101 Elementary Arabic 1.
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This course will familiarize students with the literary production of authors from the Arabic-speaking world. Reading and analysis of representative works of different styles, genres, and literary periods will be selected every semester.
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This first course in the Child Development sequence introduces the concept of the integrated curriculum as the preferred approach in early childhood education. Theories on the acquisition of language and its sequential development will provide a framework for understanding the significance of language in interpersonal relationships within one's culture and across other cultural groups. Curriculum experiences for children will be planned and tested in a required co-requisite internship setting.
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This course will introduce students to the problem solving and logical thinking processes that are common to both science and mathematics learning for young children. The continuing emphasis on language development will focus on building a specialized vocabulary and the communication of thinking processes. The course will also foster knowledge and understanding of the mathematical and scientific legacies ancient cultures and civilizations have passed on to the modern world.
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This course will consider the media through which children's creativity is expressed. The content will focus on the use of imaginative play, music and movement, art and materials. The course will also challenge students to study and present art, music, and literature in their many forms from various cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial perspectives.
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This writing intensive course provides a working knowledge of language and literacy development in early chilhood. Course work involves examination of early language development in young children and going through grade 6. Topics include study of the relationship between written and spoken language and oral language development in children in culturally and academically diverse groups.
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This writing-intensive course is designed to promote students? understanding of the importance of issues concerning language and literacy in secondary education and their relevance to classroom practices. Students will learn about first and second language acquisition, dialects, discourses and other language abilities as well as communicative styles and language complexity.
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This course for beginners is designed to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through work in the classroom and the language laboratory.
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This is a continuation of HUF101.
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This course is designed to further develop language skills. The relationship between speaking, reading and writing is emphasized.
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This intermediate course is designed to enable French speaking students to further develop oral and written skills through interviews, reading, and writing assignments. This course will also emphasize spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.
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This laboratory course is designed to maintain foreign language skills during an interruption in the study sequence. Individual instruction is directly related to a student's particular field of interest.
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This course is an introduction to the literature and culture of French-speaking countries through various forms of literary expression. Readings and discussions will emphasize the rich contributions of African, Caribbean, and North American writers and artists, as well as responses to them from France and the United States.
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This course examines the thematic and stylistic variety of contemporary French language literature in different genres in English translation. Students will explore themes of identity, memory, time, sex, and sexuality, the Pan-African diaspora, colonial and post-colonial relations, the Enlightenment heritage, the links to national and international movements, and the politics of resistance and language choice through the analysis of representative poems, stories, novellas and novels.
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This course is designed to further develop functional language proficiency and increase the ability to communicate accurately in Japanese within a socio-cultural context. The four communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing are emphasized with particular attention paid to sentence and paragraph structure, grammatical features, and oral and written fluency. The Kanji writing system will be introduced and reinforced. Taught in Japanese.
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This course is designed as a continuation of Intermediate Japanese 1 with greater emphasis on reading and writing. It also continues to familiarize students with literary Japanese. This course will be taught in Japanese.
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An introduction to the nature, structure and history of language, this course surveys the scientific study of language and answers the question of what it means to "know" a language. Areas covered include phonology, word structure, sentence structure, how language is acquired, how languages change through time, language in society and writing systems.
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This is a grammar and syntax course. The course focuses on the grammatical structures necessary in academic discourse. The course begins with a review of the English verb system and covers preposition use, English word order, adverb, adjective, and noun clauses, reported speech, article usage, complex conditionals, and passive voice.
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This is a beginning course designed to develop skills in a form of manual communication used primarily by American-born deaf persons in interpersonal (face-to-face) relations. Emphasis will be on the use of the body for visually-based communication, and the structure, vocabulary and development of American Sign Language.
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This course is a continuation of American Sign Language I with emphasis on vocabulary building in conjunction with appropriate use of the body and grammatical patterns.
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In this course, students who have learned some of the vocabulary and grammatical principles of American Sign Language in ASL I and ASL II will begin to apply what they have learned in a conversational context. Students will become acquainted with a variety of ASL communication styles and dialects used by deaf people.
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This course builds on the vocabulary and grammar learned in ASL 1 through 3. Language skills will be refined in the areas of complex non-manual grammatical markers, advanced ASL spatial rules, classifiers (particularly as used for descriptions of small items, people, cars and places), and adverbial modifiers for small items and details. Students will be able to use ASL in a variety of discourse types such as persuasion, negotiation, problem-solving, giving directions and dialogue. Upon completion, students' abilities to communicate with Deaf persons will be enhanced.
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This course will cover the basic rationale, principles and applications of a bilingual philosophy of learning. It will consider psychological, social and political factors of bilingualism, including past and present legislation. It will also examine language acquisition theories, representative models of bilingualism and bilingual instruction, and issues related to the maintenance of language and culture. Field trips to various schools in the city will constitute a significant part of the course.
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This course explores language use and language history, particularly in the New York metropolitan area. It is an investigation of the features of indigenous languages of the Americas as well as those belonging to the influx of languages from around the world, revealing their deep-seated similarities and surprising differences. It examines the preservation and change of languages and their use in cultural communities in the urban setting.
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