School of Languages and Cultures (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/slc/graduate/

Department/School Head:

Jennifer M. William

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The School of Languages and Cultures offers graduate study leading to the M.A.
degree in French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Comparative Literature and the
Ph.D. degree in French, German, Spanish and Comparative Literature. In addition, the
School of Languages and Cultures participates in the curriculum for the M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees granted by the Program in Linguistics/Foreign Language
Acquisition housed in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Beate Allert
Elena Coda 
Alejandro Cuza-Blanco
Keith Dickson
Paul B. Dixon
Atsushi Fukada
Kazumi Hatasa
Wei Hong
Nicholas K. Rauh
Iñigo Sanchez-Llama
John Sundquist
Jennifer M. William

Associate Professor

Robert Channon
Lori A. Czerwionka
Olga Dmitrieva
Daniel Hsieh
Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Yonsoo Kim
Cara Kinnally
Paula Leverage
Colleen Neary-Sundquist
Song No
Daniel J. Olson
Marcia Stephenson
Dawn F. Stinchcomb
Jessica Sturm
Jeffrey Turco
Nadège Veldwachter
Mariko Moroishi Wei

Assistant Professor

Pedro Bassoe
Charles Campbell
Daniel Conner
Olga Lyanda-Geller 
Erin Moodie
Gabriel Rios Rojas 
Hongjian Wang Route
Li Wei 

Emeritus Faculty

Paul Benhamou
Zinaida Breschinsky
Thomas Broden  
Becky Brown
William Buffington
Fritz Cohen
Maria Cooks
Robert S. Freeman
Alan Garfinkel
Robert Hammond
Patricia Hart 
William Hatfield
Madeleine M. Henry
Christiane Keck
Benjamin Lawton 
Howard Mancing 
Floyd Merrell
Herbert Rowland
Eiji Sekine
Erdmute W. White
Joseph Wipf
Allen G. Wood

Programs

• Comparative Literature, PHD
• Languages & Cultures, PHD

• Comparative Literature, MA
• Languages & Cultures, MA

Courses

• ARAB 58700 - Modern Arab Thought

• CHNS 59400 - Special Topics In Chinese Literature

• CLCS 59000 - Directed Reading In Classics
• CLCS 59300 - Special Topics In Classical Literature

• FR 51900 - Teaching College French
• FR 52700 - Etudes de Style
• FR 54100 - Renaissance French Literature
• FR 54900 - French Literature And Film
• FR 55800 - French Novel Of The Twentieth Century
• FR 56100 - The Structure Of French I: Phonetics And Phonology
• FR 56200 - The Structure Of French II: Syntax And Morphosyntax
• FR 56300 - History Of The French Language
• FR 56400 - Introduction To Old French
• FR 58100 - French Culture
• FR 58200 - Francophone Cultures
• FR 59000 - Directed Reading In French
• FR 59400 - Special Topics In French Literature
• FR 59600 - Special Topics In French Linguistics
• FR 60100 - First Course To Establish Reading Knowledge
• FR 63000 - Bibliography And Literary Criticism
• FR 65900 - Seminar In French Literature
• FR 67900 - Seminar In French Linguistics
• FR 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• FR 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• GER 51900 - Teaching College German
• GER 52400 - German For International Trade
• GER 54200 - German Classicism
• GER 54300 - The Age Of Enlightenment And The Storm And Stress Movement
• GER 54400 - German Romanticism
• GER 54500 - German Prose From Naturalism To The Present
• GER 54600 - German Literature Since 1945
• GER 55100 - Lyric Poetry From Romanticism To The Present
• GER 55400 - German Drama Before Naturalism
• GER 55500 - German Drama From Naturalism To The Present
• GER 56100 - The Structure Of German I: Phonology And Derivational Morphology
• GER 56200 - The Structure Of German II: Inflectional Morphology And Syntax
• GER 56300 - History Of The German Language
• GER 57500 - Theories Of German Language Acquisition
• GER 58100 - German Culture
• GER 59000 - Directed Reading In German
• GER 59400 - Special Topics In German Literature
• GER 59600 - Special Topics In German Linguistics
• GER 60100 - First Course To Establish Reading Knowledge
• GER 60300 - Second Course To Establish Reading Knowledge
• GER 60500 - Second Course To Establish Reading Knowledge
• GER 63000 - Bibliography And Literary Criticism
• GER 64400 - Seminar In German Expressionism
• GER 65900 - Seminar In German Literature
• GER 66400 - Middle High German
• GER 67900 - Seminar In German Linguistics
• GER 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• GER 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• GREK 59000 - Directed Reading In Classical Greek

• ITAL 59000 - Directed Reading In Italian

• JPNS 52100 - Teaching Japanese As A Foreign Language
• JPNS 56000 - Survey Of Japanese Linguistics
• JPNS 57500 - Theories Of Japanese Language Acquisition
• JPNS 59000 - Directed Reading In Japanese
• JPNS 59400 - Special Topics In Japanese Literature
• JPNS 59600 - Special Topics In Japanese Linguistics.
• JPNS 67900 - Seminar In Japanese Linguistics
• JPNS 69800 - Research MA Thesis

• LC 51900 - Teaching Of Foreign Languages
• LC 56300 - Historical Linguistics
• LC 56500 - Sociolinguistics
• LC 57000 - Introduction To Semiotics
• LC 57300 - Methods Of Experimental Research In Linguistics
• LC 57500 - Theories Of Foreign Language Acquisition
• LC 57700 - Acoustic Analysis Of Speech
• LC 59000 - Directed Reading In Foreign Languages
• LC 59300 - Special Topics In Literature
• LC 59600 - Special Topics In Linguistics
• LC 63000 - Comparative Literature: Function And Methods
• LC 63900 - Seminar In Comparative Literature
• LC 65000 - Topics In Theory
• LC 65900 - Seminar In Literature And Culture Of The African Diaspora
• LC 67900 - Seminar In Linguistics
• LC 69800 - Research MA Thesis
• LC 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• LATN 59000 - Directed Reading In Latin
• LATN 60100 - First Course To Establish Reading Knowledge
• LATN 60500 - Second Course To Establish Reading Knowledge

• PTGS 55100 - Brazilian Poetry
• PTGS 55500 - Brazilian Drama
• PTGS 55700 - Brazilian Fiction
• PTGS 59000 - Directed Reading In Portuguese
• PTGS 59400 - Special Topics In Luso-Brazilian Literature

• RUSS 56100 - The Structure Of Russian I: Phonology And Syntax
• RUSS 56200 - The Structure Of Russian II: Morphology
• RUSS 59000 - Directed Reading In Russian
• RUSS 59600 - Special Topics In Russian Linguistics

• SPAN 51900 - Teaching College Spanish
• SPAN 54000 - Spanish Literature Of The Middle Ages
• SPAN 54100 - Spanish Literature Of The Golden Age
• SPAN 54200 - Cervantes Don Quijote
• SPAN 54300 - Spanish Literature Of The 18th And 19th Centuries
• SPAN 54500 - Spanish Literature Of The 20th Century
• SPAN 54900 - Hispanic Women Writers
• SPAN 55000 - Spanish American Literature Of The Colonial Period
• SPAN 55100 - Spanish American Literature Of The 19th Century
• SPAN 55200 - Spanish American Literature From 1900 To 1970

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