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Modern Languages and Literatures
at the University of Dallas
"To learn a foreign language is to acquire a second soul"
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures houses and coordinates five different programs: French : German : Italian : Spanish : Comparative Literary Traditions
For details on our major programs in French, German, Spanish, and Comparative Literary Traditions, click on the above links.
It is also possible to "concentrate" (i.e., minor) in a French, German, Italian, or Spanish in combination with any major. Alternatively, you can complete a Language-and-Literature Unit in French, German, or Spanish in combination with any major.
Please explore the links to the left. In particular, if you are a high school student, check out the departmental language scholarships, for which you may be eligible.
Contact person for Modern Languages: Prof. Robert S. Dupree, Chair.
Fall 2007 Courses Taught In English (and Open to All)
MCT 3371. Monuments of Early Modernism: Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot.
Three works of art created between 1908 to 1922 were prominent ground-breaking models for what was to come in subsequent decades. This course examines not only their important early work but also the nineteenth-century currents upon which they drew, such as symbolism and impressionism; contemporary movements such as Futurism and the French avant-garde; and others, such as Matisse, Braque, Schoenberg, and Pound, who were rivals or collaborators.
MCT 4321. J.R.R. Tolkien: Heroic Fantasy and the Literary Tradition
A study of Professor Tolkien's literary projet in the light of his ancient and medieval models, especially: Beowulf, the Volsungsaga, the two Eddas. Must already have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Click here for the 2005 syllabus.
MCTF 5311. French For Reading Knowledg
Designed especially for students needing quickly to reach reading competency in French.
"Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen."
"Apprendre une langue, c'est vivre de nouveau."
"Cada palabra tiene un alma."
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