The first half of the course concentrates on general introduction of Linguistics, which includes phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and historical linguistics. The rest of the course discusses various topics such as aspect, tone sandhi, stress, first and second language acquisition, pro-drop phenomenon, and prosody. The students are expected to write a term paper for the course. Topics include points of Chinese culture, history, philosophy or current events. Juniors and seniors or students who have more than 2 years of Chinese are encouraged to enroll in the Independent Study.
Students meet the professor individually in appointments.
Students are introduced to Spanish grammar in these two semesters and begin to develop vocabulary and oral and written conversancy that will eventually enable them to interact for reasons of business, pleasure or evangelization in the countries where Spanish is spoken. By the end of Spanish 202 most of the Spanish grammar has been exposed to the student. To minor in Spanish, one must take 12 credit hours of Spanish beyond the core requirement of 12 hours. Text by Josemar a Iraburu. The autobiographies of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits, St. Anthony Marie Claret, Founder of the Claretians, and St. Teresa of Avila, Reformer of the Carmelites, studied in the original language.