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Catalog 2025-2026

Languages

Teaching Faculty

ProfessorsÌýContreras-Silva (Spanish coordinator), Jellenik (French coordinator), Liu (chair and Chinese coordinator), Rauh, Resinski,Ìýand Vidal-Torreira
Assistant Professor and Murphy Fellow Brandner
Instructors Cottrant-Estell, Escobar, and French

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Description

The Department of Languages offers majors and minors in Classics, French, and Spanish. The department also offers courses in Chinese language and literature that may be used for the Asian Studies minor. Our programs in modern languages are designed to develop written and oral communication skills in the target languages, to promote global awareness through the study of different cultures and peoples, and to encourage aesthetic appreciation through the study of literature. Our program in Classics encourages students to develop a multi-faceted view of Greek and Roman antiquity through an interdisciplinary study of language, literature, history, and philosophy.

Chinese

Classics-Latin, Greek

French

Spanish

Departmental Courses

Minor in Comparitive Literature

6 courses distributed as follows:

  • A maximum of two courses in any one tradition (CHIN, CLAS, FREN/LITR, SPAN/LITR)
  • A minimum of one course in a second tradition
  • A minimum of one course in a third tradition
  • A minimum of one course at the 400-level
  • No more than one course can be used for a major

Courses in the Chinese tradition
  • CHIN 190ÌýChinese Martial Arts Novels & Films*
  • CHIN 290ÌýGods Demons and the Supernatural*
  • CHIN 295ÌýTopics in Chinese Literature*
  • CHIN MXX Murphy Tutorial*
Courses in the Classical tradition
  • CLAS 200 Classical Mythology*
  • CLAS 290ÌýTopics in Classical Literature*
  • CLAS MXXÌýMurphy Tutorial in Literature*
  • CLAS 490ÌýAdv Topics in Classical Literature*
  • GREE 210ÌýReadings in Greek
  • GREE 390ÌýTopics in Greek Literature
  • GREE 410ÌýAdv Reading/Research in Greek Lit
  • LATI 210ÌýReadings in Latin
  • LATI 295ÌýThe Vulgate
  • LATI 390ÌýTopics in Latin Literature
  • LATI 395ÌýThe Vulgate
  • LATI 410ÌýAdv Reading/Research in Latin Lit
Courses in the French tradition
  • FREN/LITR 202 Existentialism in France*
  • FREN/LITR 231 Intro to French Film*
  • FREN/LITR 232 Contemporary French Film*
  • FREN/LITR 241 Holocaust Lit: French/Translation*
  • FREN 302ÌýFrench Women,Gender, & Sexuality
  • FREN/LITR 331ÌýIntro to French Film*
  • FREN/LITR 332 Intro to French Cinema II*
  • FREN/LITR 341 Holocaust Lit: French/Translation*
  • FREN 360ÌýFrancophone Fiction
  • FREN MXXÌýMurphy Tutorial in Literature*
  • FREN 401ÌýSmall Worlds: French Lit Minimalism
  • FREN 402ÌýExistentialism in France
  • FREN/LITR 460ÌýTopics: French Literature & Film*
  • FREN/LITR 461ÌýTranslation Theory*
Courses in the Hispanic tradition
  • SPAN 335ÌýLatin American Poetry and Pop Music
  • SPAN 365ÌýMexican National Identify in Lit
  • SPAN 370ÌýLove in Modern Short Story
  • SPAN 375ÌýPolitics, Human Rights, & Vocation
  • SPAN 390ÌýTopics in Spanish
  • SPAN 405ÌýQueer Literature in Spain
  • SPAN 471ÌýTwilight of the Spanish EmpireÌý
  • SPAN 473ÌýThe Conquest of America
  • SPAN 474ÌýIndigenous Representations Latin Am
  • SPAN 485ÌýGender & Power in Latin Amer Novel
  • SPAN 488ÌýEchoes of the Spanish Civil War
  • SPAN 490ÌýSpecial Topics: Spanish
  • SPAN MXXÌýMurphy Tutorial in Literature*

* denotes that the course work in these classes can be done entirely in English.

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