Builds confidence for writing and speaking in academic and professional contexts for undergraduate and graduate students. Helps students learn to use language accurately and appropriately in written texts and for oral presentations. Includes in-class activities such as grammatical consciousness-raising, text analysis, production practice, proofreading and editing for typical second language errors, and targeted speaking exercises. Helps students chart individual progress by keeping a personal inventory of patterns of errors.

Junior level courses developed around a conceptual framework and contextual response. Topics rotate and are based on student interest, faculty expertise and facility availability and capabilities.

Develops oral communication skills of advanced ESL students for academic formal presentations and informal discussion. Builds confidence and improves intelligibility through focus on English sounds, rhythm, stress, and intonation. Provides guidance and feedback for the attainment of an expert level of second language speaking and listening proficiency.

A deeper investigation into the methods and strategies for mold making and casting. This course will focus on developing technical ability with a range of contemporary molding and casting materials and techniques.

Representational work in clay using the human figure as subject. Use of model, training in observation and anatomical focus. Projects, reviews, presentations. Prerequisites: for non-majors, ART 110 or equivalent; for majors, ART 120, 131, 141.

Theoretical issues and practical problems raised by translation, in light of recent research. The role of translation and translated literature in cultural systems and in the history of literary development. Genre and form (poetry, dramatic literature), language register and tone, metaphor and imagery, word play. Readings in theory (Nida, Even-Zohar, Lefevere, Quine, Catford) combined with workshop practice.

A seminar on literary criticism east and west, from the classical period to the Renaissance in Europe, as well as in ancient China and the medieval Islamic world. Commonalities in all our texts: what constitutes art and beauty in verbal expression? What is the purpose of literature? Who may have access to literature? What are sacred and canonical texts, and how shall they be approached? What is the connection between literature and truth, literature and morality? What are the proper techniques for composing good literature? What is the function of the study of rhetoric?

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