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.