Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC)
Current Courses: Spring 2008
Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) is offering the following LAC options during the Spring 2008 semester. For more information about any of these courses, or about the LAC program in general, please contact the LAC Program Coordinator at lac@unc.edu.
ARABIC combined discussion section for the following courses:
ASIA 451: Orientalist Fantasies and Discourses on the Other (FREN 451, INTS 451). This interdisciplinary course (literature, film, painting, music) examines the Eastern and Western encounters with and discourses on the Other from the eighteenth century to the present.
ARAB 151: Survey of Arabic Literature. Introduces the rich literary heritage of the Arabic language from pre-Islamic to modern times and covers all major genres. Emphasis on critical thinking, literary analysis, and academic writing.
HIST 276: The Modern Middle East (ASIA 276). This course introduces students to the recent history of the Middle East, including a comparison of the Middle East to the United States.
POLI 195: Europe and the Middle East.
FRENCH combined discussion section for the following courses:
ASIA 451: Orientalist Fantasies and Discourses on the Other (FREN 451, INTS 451). This interdisciplinary course (literature, film, painting, music) examines the Eastern and Western encounters with and discourses on the Other from the eighteenth century to the present.
HIST 276: The Modern Middle East (ASIA 276). This course introduces students to the recent history of the Middle East, including a comparison of the Middle East to the United States.
POLI 195: Europe and the Middle East.
FRENCH discussion section for:
FREN 332H: European Cinema. This course examines the construction of European identities in a range of European films from the 1960s to today. It will analyze and compare modes of narrating national, class, racial, sexual and social differences in England, France, Germany, Spain and other European nations. Focusing on key moments in Europe’s cultural, social and political history, we will consider how discourses on otherness have evolved. We will also investigate the ways in which film culture has reflected, reinforced, reshaped and, in some instances, vigorously contested Europe’s dominant ideologies.
FRENCH discussion section for:
INTS 210: Global Issues in the Twentieth Century (ANTH 210, GEOG 210, HIST 210, POLI 210). Survey of international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of 20th-century conflicts and change in different historical contexts.
FRENCH research option for:
ECON 461: European Economic Integration. Economic and political aspects of European economic integration, the EC customs union, barriers to integration, convergence vs. divergence of inflation rates and income levels, enlargement of the EC. (Prerequisite, ECON 310 or ECON 410 or permission of instructor.)
GERMAN discussion section for:
GERM 270: German Culture and the Jewish Question (CMPL 270, JWST 239, RELI 239). A study of the role of Jews and the "Jewish question" in German culture from 1750 to the Holocaust and beyond.
SPANISH discussion section for:
HIST 143: Latin America Since Independence. A general introduction to Latin American society, culture, politics, and economics from a historical perspective. Focus will be on the events of the past two centuries.
SPANISH discussion section for:
INTS 210: Global Issues in the Twentieth Century (ANTH 210, GEOG 210, HIST 210, POLI 210). Survey of international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of 20th-century conflicts and change in different historical contexts.
Visit the Website for the Spanish LAC Section for INTS 210
Note: LAC students are eligible to earn one credit hour for their participation in LAC courses. To receive this hour students must register for the appropriate LAC language section ARAB 308, FREN 308, SPAN 308, or GERM 389 that corresponds to the main course.
Students enroll in LAC discussion sections in place of the normal recitation sections in English. In courses where recitations are not the norm, LAC discussion sections are additional opportunities to discuss course themes in the target language of the section.
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