Foreign Languages and Literatures - Skidmore College

Foreign Languages and Literatures from Skidmore College is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Languages Across the Curriculum Program allows students with high intermediate to advanced competency to integrate foreign language to their study of disciplines commonly taught in English. LAC allows them to enrich and expand the intercultural and international content of such courses, and to expand their foreign language proficiency. Cross-cultural and multilingual inquiry affords a more complete learning experience and provides a basis for comparative understanding not available when limited to the use of resources in only one language. In connecting LAC with a course taught in English, students will develop a deeper and more precise understanding of the target language and culture by reading in that language. Students will also attain a better understanding of how a different culture approaches the discipline in question. In order to participate in Skidmore?s LAC, you need to enroll in a LAC class in the language of your choice and connect it with a class in a department other than Foreign Languages and Literatures. There two levels of LAC: one at the intermediate level, a 1-credit 220 LAC course offered in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish, and an advanced 2-credit 340 LAC course offered in French, German, and Spanish, with other languages to be added in Spring '08. Majors and Minors in International Studies, and Minors in Latin American Studies, are required to complete at least one unit of LAC (220). Sampling of courses with which a LAC course easily connects: AH 261 Twentieth-Century Art AN 205 Mesoamerican Archaeology AN 228 Mexican Cultures AN 243 Latin American Indians AN 270 History of Anthropological Thought AN 344 Anthropology and Environmental Health AN 345 Ecological Anthropology AN 349 Medical Anthropology BI 321 Tropical Ecology EN 316 Economics of Development EC 319 Economics of Income Distribution and Poverty FL 250 An Outline of German Civilization FL 252 Italian Cinema: From Fiction to Film FL 253 Italian Civilization in Translation FL 257 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation FL 258 Chinese Civilization FL 263 The Fantastic in Fiction FL 322 French Film GO 209 The Latin American Puzzle GO 309 Latin America and the United States GO 353 Sex and Power HI 108 Colonial Latin America HI 109 Contemporary Latin American HI 228 Race, Class, and Gender in Latin America HI 241 Introduction to Imperial China HI 247 The Rise of Japan HI 305 The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 GI 335 German History since 1814 HI 343 The Chinese Revolution HI 347 Japan?s Modernizers IA 100 Introduction to International Affairs. LS2 149 Art and Ideas in Italy LS2 158 Self and Desire: A Study of Don Juan LS2 163 China and the West: The Myth of the Other LS2 165 Modern China and Japan in narrative and Film LS2 190 The Human Experience of Exile LS2 191 Dante?s Divine Comedy LS2 197 Images of Contemporary Italian Women MB 337 Advertising and Promotion MB 344 International Marketing MB 359 Global Financial Institutions PH 204 History of Philosophy: Early Modern PH 306 Nineteenth Century Continental Philosophy PH 307 Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy View more details on Skidmore College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.