Something to think about regarding Fall 2012 Registration
Are you looking for an interesting course to fulfill an elective or to build your interdisciplinary minor? The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures is cultivating its lesser-taught languages to offer students a competitive edge in the globalizing world. For the first time ever, we are teaching Arabic I (AB101) in the fall for students interested in North Africa or the Middle East. For the first time ever, we are offering Chinese II (CI102) in the fall (previously only taught in the spring) so that every level of Chinese is being offered next semester. In addition, to our regularly offered Japanese I and III (JP101 and JP103), we will also be offering for the first time this fall, Japanese Composition and Conversation (JP201). In today's world, language is the key to everything. Are you prepared to unlock the treasure chest of world knowledge?
Professor Margaret Haggstrom
Dr. Margaret Haggstrom, Associate Professor of French, and Associate Chair for Student Issues of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, has received the post-secondary AATF DOROTHY S. LUDWIG EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARDS. This national award from the American Association of Teachers of French is awarded to only one college or university French professor in the United States and Canada, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is honored with Dr. Haggstrom’s receipt of this year’s award.
Dr. Haggstrom does research in the area of foreign language pedagogy and has had articles published in journals such as The French Review, ADFL, Foreign Language Annals, and the Canadian Modern Language Review. She was first author of Portes ouvertes, a first-year college French program published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Along with four coauthors, she is currently completing a first- and second-year comprehensive college French program to be published by Pearson in 2013 to be titled A plus! première année and A plus! deuxième année. Her favorite course to teach: first semester French!
Professor Nicholas Martin
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce that Dr. Nicholas Martin, of the University of Birmingham, UK, Department of German Studies, will hold the Cardin Chair in the Humanities this year (2011-2012). Dr. Martin received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and has also taught at St. Andrews, Scotland and the University of California, Long Beach. He will be teaching one course each semester in the Department. He will teach ML 385 in the fall with the topic "Cultures of Protest and Terror in Germany: Baader-Meinhof and the Red Army Faction, 1967-1977"; and ML 385 in the spring with the topic, "World War One Writing in Germany, France and Britain". In addition, he will lead a monthly faculty seminar "Nietzsche's challenges to the Judaeo-Christian tradition and selected receptions of these challenges." This will be open to all interested Loyola University Maryland faculty. Endowed specifically to foster an appreciation of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Cardin Chair rotates among the various academic departments in the Humanities at the University every second year.
Professor Tasha Lewis
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce that Dr. Tasha Lewis has joined the Loyola community of faculty. Dr. Lewis recently completed her dissertation on event gestures in second-language acquisition. She did her research in Spain and received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis. Before that, she studied at the University of California-Long Beach and McGill University in Montréal. Most recently she has been teaching at McGill and Marianapolis Universities. At Loyola, Dr. Lewis has taken on the mammoth task of coordinating the multileveled core Spanish program. For the fall that means over forty sections of Spanish 101-104, 161. In addition to her duties as the Core Spanish-language coordinator, Professor Lewis will be actively involved with the Spanish major teaching courses on applied Spanish linguistics, a new field being offered in the Department. In the spring she will be teaching SN320 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics in which students will gain an introductory knowledge to all the subfields of Spanish Linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, dialectology and historical linguistics. Spanish instructors and students alike will benefit from Professor Lewis’s expertise.
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Detective Genres at Loyola this Spring
Major case squad comes to the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the spring semester. Students considering a life of crime during the spring semester should think twice since both the Hanna Geldrich Leffman Colloquium on Language Literature and Society and the Mrs. Regina Ann Haig International Film Series will focus on how detectives get the bad guys. Students interested in the topic will be able to compare the presentations of what is called detective fiction in the Colloquium with the representation of those themes in the movies screened by the Haig International Film Series. There will be three films presented on different days and the Colloquium will take place on a fourth day. Any students seen wearing top coats and/or panama hats will be taken in to the departmental seminar room for questioning.
For information contact Professor Matthew Harper at mlharper@loyola.edu.
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures offers programs of study in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.
As part of its commitment to a broad-based, liberal-arts education, Loyola requires all students, regardless of their major, to demonstrate proficiency in a modern or classical foreign language at the intermediate college level, or higher. Depending on how high students place on their placement exam, anywhere from 1-4 language courses will be needed to fulfill Loyola's basic language requirement.
The department offers majors and minors in German, French, Spanish, and Comparative Cultures and Literary Studies, as well as affiliate minors in Italian and Latin American and Latino Studies.
Got questions? E-mail your questions to us at askMLL@loyola.edu
Students who need forms signed should leave them with Natalie Rock in MH 454. She will make sure they get signed and will then contact the student.
Fall Essay Contest Winners
Alexandra Snyder - Intermediate French
Maria Handy - Advanced German
Amanda Dougherty - Intermediate Italian
Cherry Abdou - Intermediate Spanish
Matthew Jones - Advanced Spanish
Spring Poetry Contest Winners
Monica Bustos - Chinese
Maria Handy - German
Anthony Staiti - Italian
Elizabeth Sabbatini - Italian
Anna Schmedding - Japanese
Carson Pryor - Spanish
Congratulations to all our winners!!!
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