MLL Graduate Course Offerings
Summer 2024
Program: French
SUMMER A (First 6 weeks)
Graduate course number: FRW 5775
Course Title: Caribbean Cultures: Adaptation
Instructor: Murray-Roman
Time: T/R 3:05-6:15
Language of Class Discussion: English
Readings in will be available in translation
Open to graduate students from other MLL programs/departments: Yes
Course Description:
From Aimé Césaire's rewrite of Shakespeare's The Tempest to Caribbean food cultures—with discussions of Carnival, performance poetry, and ecological change along the way—this course focuses on how theories and practices of adaptation grounded in the Caribbean region are instructive for analyzing transnational cultural encounters more globally. We will therefore read Francophone Caribbean works side by side with Hispanophone and Anglophone poetry and cultural production. As such, this is a comparative methods course where we will take a multi-lingual and multi-genre approach towards in our study of the formal practices of adaptation between languages, genres, and media.
Grading will be based on discussion questions posts before each class meeting, weekly 2-page papers analyzing different adaptation techniques, and two short in-class presentations; graduate students will respond to an additional set of weekly readings focused on eco-criticism theory and Caribbean studies.

Program: Spanish
SUMMER A (First 6 weeks)
Graduate course number: LIN 5628
Course Title: Current Research in Bilingualism
Instructor: Muntendam
Time: M/W 3:05-6:20
Language of Class Discussion: English
Readings in English
Open to graduate students from other MLL programs/departments: Yes
Course Description:
This course focuses on recent issues within the field of Bilingualism. Students will read and critically evaluate recent articles from a wide range of bilingualism journals.