Foreign Languages

Introduces the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and develops basic communicative skills in the language, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course exposes students to the most relevant aspects of Hispanic culture through the class sessions, as well as through assigned introductory reading. Audio-visual materials used throughout the course will enhance students’ listening and speaking skills. Prerequisites: None. Credits: 3 

Teaches students to understand and to speak a basic level of Spanish and to get acquainted with the Hispanic culture. The course’s main objective is to enable the student to use sentences and expressions of everyday life. It expands  on  the  grammar and vocabulary introduced in GE107 and enhances students’ knowledge of Spanish through the basic communicative skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing, while focusing on conversational skills. Prerequisites: GE107. Credits: 3

Introduces students to the Arabic language. Through classes students are exposed to the particularities of the Arabic language and culture. Students develop writing, listening and speaking skills through traditional in-class exercises and audio visual material, and engage in language production through formally and informally structured conversations and paragraph writing. Prerequisites: None. Credits: 3

Teaches students essential grammatical phenomena that will enable them to read a wide range of texts that reflect everyday interaction. At the same time the course develops their writing, listening, and speaking skills. Specially designed audiovisual material is used to give students an idea of life in Arabic-speaking countries and to familiarize them with the socio-cultural background of the language. Prerequisite: GE116 Credits: 3

Introduces students to basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past. Students learn basic French grammar such as verb conjugation and adjective agreement and practice the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in the present tense with an emphasis upon correct oral and written expression and aural comprehension. Students are also introduced to various aspects of French culture in France and in French speaking countries around the world in the text and through videos and presentations, which may include historical, social, and cultural topics. Prerequisites: None Credits: 3

Develops the basic knowledge acquired in Beginning French I, basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past. Students learn French grammar such as verb conjugation and adjective agreement and practice the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing in the present and past tense with an emphasis upon correct oral and written expression and aural comprehension. Students are also introduced to various aspects of French culture in France and in French speaking countries around the world in the text and through videos and presentations, which may include historical, social and cultural topics. Prerequisites: GE179 Credits: 3

Basic Greek 1 is an introductory course (A1 Breakthrough Level) in Modern Greek for speakers of other languages. It introduces students to the language focusing on selected key communicative contexts through which students learn to use fundamental grammatical and syntactic structures as well as the appropriate vocabulary. The course meets the Common European Framework of Reference for the Languages (CEFR) competency scale Beginner to A1 as well as the Novice Can-Do statements suggested by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Prerequisites: None Credits: 3

Basic Greek 2 is a post introductory course (A1 Waystage User) in Modern Greek for speakers of other languages. It further engages students to a more advanced use of the language on a wider spectrum of communicative contexts through which students learn to communicate their ideas both orally and in writing. This course also prepares students to sit for the A1 examination of the Center for the Greek Language administered in May. The course meets the Common European Framework of Reference for the Languages (CEFR) competency scale A1 to A2 as well as the Novice High Can-Do statements suggested by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Prerequisites: GE181 Credits: 3