MODL Courses
MODL Courses
(Modern Languages)
MODL 3403
Conversational Language I - Study Abroad
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
This course allows the student to utilize the
target language in a native setting and through total immersion.
The student is exposed to the language while in class, with the
host family, and during daily activities.
This intensive oral practice is designed to improve listening
comprehension, oral proficiency, and vocabulary in a natural language
environment.
MODL 3413
Conversational Language II - Study Abroad
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
For the student who has been abroad before, this
course is a continuation of conversational skills, again, all done in
the target language. The
student works to further develop listening comprehension, oral
proficiency, and more native vocabulary, like idiomatic and colloquial
expression. The student
again advances his/her language skills in a native environment and
through total immersion.
MODL 3423
Syntax of the Language - Study Abroad
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
This course allows the student the opportunity to
study the target language's grammar and usage in a native setting
through total immersion techniques.
Each student is placed into the appropriate classroom with regard
to his/her language ability, allowing further development of grammar and
syntax skills in the target language.
The grammar studies in class will complement the conversation
skills obtained through the experience while abroad.
MODL 443V
Seminar in Foreign Language Studies
Variable credit
For students traveling abroad or taking intensive
on-campus immersions in a foreign language.
Typically, work will include cultural or literary studies or
political studies or a combination.
MODL 4903
Seminar in Teaching Foreign Language
3 credits:
3 hours lecture
Evaluation and critique of micro classroom
teaching, history of academic discipline, philosophy development, test
design and evaluation, and materials for on-site teaching.