Academic Programs Committee Reports

RECOMMENDATION

To: University Council

Date: May 18, 2000

Re: College of Arts and Science � New programs. program deletions and program changes in Languages and Linguistics

Summary of proposal as revised:

Programs deleted:

- Double Honours programs in German, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. (Note that Single Honours programs in these languages were deleted in 1990.)
- Four year programs in German, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
- Minor in Ukrainian � deleted by department as recommended by Budget Committee

Programs revised/ maintained

- Three-year, Four-year, Honours and Double Honours programs in French (with revisions)
- Three-year program in Spanish (remains as is)
- Three-year and Four-year programs in Linguistics (remains as is)
- Minor and Recognition in German, Russian, and Spanish (with revisions); Recognition in Ukrainian (with revisions).
- Three-year major programs in German, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian, with revision that students would complete four full classes in the language/literature (or three in Ukrainian) plus two or three full classes in related subjects.
(Note that students could still complete the Three-year Spanish major and French major with five full classes taught in the language. In the other languages, additional courses would be required in related subjects.)

New Programs:

- Four-year and Honours programs in Linguistics and Languages
Requirements: Four-year: 18 credit units in one language, 12 credit units in another language; 12 credit units in literature; 24 credit units in linguistics. (Total 66 credit units)
Honours would require an additional 3 credit units in literature, an additional 3 credit units in linguistics, and a 3-credit-unit honours project (Total 75 credit units)

- Four-year and Honours programs in Comparative Literature
Requirements: Four-year: 18 credit units in one language, 12 credit units in another language; 12 credit units in literature (6 credit units in each target language); 18 credit units in comparative literature; four zero-credit-unit tutorials discussing literature in the target languages (Total 60 credit units).
Honours would require an additional 6-credit-unit Honours project. (Total 66 credit units).
- Minor in French
Requirements: 24 credit units of department courses taught in French numbered 120 or above. (This would exclude courses such as FR 205 and 365.)

See the attached pages for a summary of the new, revised and deleted courses included in this proposal.

Rationale:
In spite of reductions in faculty resources, the revisions to the program allow students to achieve majors at the Three-year, Four-year and Honours levels through combinations of courses in target languages and in other subjects. The initiatives contained in the proposal are made possible by bringing together diverse courses and faculty to support programs across the entire department.

Impact and Relationships:
There is no impact on students in other programs or colleges except for students intending to complete Teaching Areas in a language to fulfill degree requirements in the College of Education. The College of Education noted that students will still be able to obtain enough courses in French, German and Spanish to satisfy the Teaching Area requirements. Students wishing to complete a 24-credit-unit Teaching Area I in Ukrainian will be accommodated on an individual basis by the College of Education.

Additional resources required:
The proposal requests that the College allocate a six-credit-unit sessional position during the Regular Session to teach the comparative literature courses. The College of Arts and Science has indicated that teaching resources will be made available.

The original proposal assumed that three faculty retirements would be replaced, one in Slavic languages and two in Spanish. Existing plans in the College of Arts and Science indicate replacement of the Slavic position and of one of the Spanish positions. The department indicates it can maintain the Three-year program in Spanish without the second replacement.


Committee Comments and Recommendation

Academic Programs Committee:
The Committee reviewed the proposal and submitted several questions to the department. All of the answers were satisfactory. The committee agreed that it should do whatever it could to foster opportunities for students to do second-language work at a university level. The Academic Programs Committee recommends that Council approve these proposed revisions, deletions, and new programs. (Nov. 17, 1999)

Budget Committee:
The Budget Committee recommends approval of the changes to the Languages and Linguistics Program with the exception of the minor in Ukrainian (Dec. 12, 1999) As shown above, the department agreed to omit the minor in Ukrainian from the proposal.

Planning Committee:
The Planning Committee discussed this program revision proposal with the Acting Dean but did not deal with it until the resources to be provided to the department had been determined.

The Committee is concerned that student enrolments in the programs of the Department of Languages and Linguistics are declining compared to other programs. In trying to provide too many courses for too few majors the faculty members in the department do not have enough time to undertake research and scholarly work.

The Committee is now prepared to recommend that the revised programs be approved, subject to the condition that the department provide a progress report to the Planning Committee two years following the implementation of the revision (September, 2003). This report should include how the new program has affected the department�s ability to implement the teacher-scholar model, whether student enrolments and student interest in the department�s programs had increased, and whether faculty are able to maintain or increase their research and scholarly work. (May 2, 2000)





cc: College of Arts and Science


Comparative Literature
New courses
LIT 261.3 Revolution and Dissidence: Studies in Protest Literature
(3L)
Prerequisite: ENG 110 or LIT 100 Selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic Literatures. All class lectures and readings in English. Authors studied may include Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Anouilh, Sartre, Brecht, Kafka, and Sembene Ousmane. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a tutorial one hour a week to read and
discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Instructor. L. Jaeck
Tutorials will be registered as zero-credit-unit seminars:
FR 261.0, GERM 261.0, SPAN 261.0, RUSS 261.0, UKR 261.0

LIT 262.3 Exiles or Émigrés: Studies in Expatriation
(3L)
Prerequisite: ENG 110 and LIT 100 Selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic Literatures. All class lectures and readings in English. Selections may include works of Voltaire, Conrad, Nabokov, Gogol, Shevchenko, Paul Celan, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Marti, Ruben Dario, Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a tutorial one hour a week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Instructor: L. Jaeck
Tutorials will be registered as zero-credit-unit seminars:
FR 262.0, GERM 262.0, SPAN 262.0, RUSS 262.0, UKR 262.0

LIT 263.3 Heroines, anti-heroines and gender definition in literature
(3L)
Prerequisite: ENG 110 or LIT 100 Literary selections from French, Germanic, Hispanic and Slavic Literatures. All class lectures and reading in English. Selections may include Flaubert�s Madame Bovary, Tolystoy�s Anna Karenina, Garcia Marquez�s Erendira, Merimee�s Carmen, Wolf�s Cassandra, and the commentaries about women by Kant and Nietzsche. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a tutorial one hour a week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Instructor: S. Falkner or L. Jaeck
Tutorials will be registered as zero-credit-unit seminars:
FR 263.0, GERM 263.0, SPAN 263.0, RUSS 263.0, UKR 263.0

LIT 264.3 Mephisto and Faust: Knowledge, Power, Damnation and Redemption
(3L)
Prerequisite: ENG 110 or LIT 100. The development of the Faust and Mephisto figures from the Renaissance to the 20th century in literature and other media such as opera, ballet, and film. French, Germanic Hispanic and Slavic works will be included. All class lectures and reading will be in English. Students majoring in Comparative Literature will have a tutorial one hour a week to read and discuss in the original language the literary selections pertinent to their language specialization.
Instructor: S. Falkner or L. Jaeck
Tutorials will be registered as zero-credit-unit seminars:
FR 264.0, GERM 264.0, SPAN 264.0, RUSS 264.0, UKR 264.0

FRENCH
New Courses
FR 220.3 Masterpieces of French Literature
Prerequisite FR 125; or 218 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent. An introduction to literary studies in French. The course will combine two elements: how to approach a French literary text, and a general introduction to French literature. It will study a selected number of French authors from the different genres and the various periods of French literature.
This course replaces FR 210.6

FR 230.3 Introduction to French-Canadian Literature
Prerequisite: FR 125; or 218 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent An introduction to the literature of 20th-Century French Canada. A study of the main literary genres: short story, novel, plays, poetry and poetic prose in their relationship to every day life.
This course replaces FR 213.6

FR 258.3 French for Business
Prerequisite: FR 125; or 218 (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent An intermediate course in business French, introducing topics such as big and small business, banks, international business as well as material on resumes, letters and job interviews and basic information on computers and the Internet, focussing on both Canada and France.
Instructor: A. Sokalski

FR 312.3 Advanced French Grammar
Prerequisite: FR 215 or 218 A study of French grammar at the advanced level based on grammatical analysis.
Instructor: A. Sokalski
This course replaces FR 302.6

FR 314.3 Introduction to Translation
Prerequisite: 6 credit units in French at the 200-level. A grade of 70 per cent or higher is desirable.
An introduction to translation from French to English. A number of different kinds of texts (general, specialized, literary) will be translated and various approaches to translation will be studied.
Instructor: N. Senior
This course replaces FR 406.3

Course Splits
FR 200.6 Intermediate French
split into
FR 128.3 Intermediate French for Bilingual Students
Prerequisite: Ecole fransaskoise Grade 12, designated (or immersion) school Grade 12, out of province equivalent Grade 12.
Designed to help students with a well-developed pre-university training in oral French to strengthen and raise their overall, but especially written, performance through grammar review, readings, précis of short documentary videos, and a critique of articles.
If it has been more than five years since graduation in an immersion program, students make take FR 121 or 122, 125, 212 and 215 instead.
Students with credit for FR 120, 121, 122, 125, 200, 212 or 215 may not take this course for credit.
And
FR 218.3 Advanced French for Bilingual Students
Prerequisite: FR 128
This course completes the grammar review started in Fr 128.3 and further enhances writing skills through intensive vocabulary exercises, précis of and commentary on longer documentary videos and a critique of a Québécois novel. Students with credit for FR 120, 121, 122, 125, 200, 212 or 215 may not take this course for credit.

FR 202.6 Oral Practice, Grammar Review, Reading and Composition
Split into:
FR 212.3 Advanced French 1
Prerequisite: FR 125 .
A French Language course that builds on skills acquired in Fr. 121/122, 125 or equivalent. Some oral work, but emphasis is placed on the practical application of grammar through reading and writing. A contemporary register of language, vocabulary and style is stressed through the study of magazines, journals and newspapers.

FR 215.3 Advanced French 2
Prerequisite: FR 212
A French language course that builds on skills acquired in Fr. 212.3 or equivalent. Some oral work, but emphasis is placed on the practical application of grammar through reading and writing. A fairly formal register of language, vocabulary and style is stressed through the study of literary and para-literary material.

Other course deletions:
FR 401.3 Advanced Composition
FR 406.3 Advanced Translation (English -French)
FR 407.3 Language and Civilization of Southern France: from the Troubadours to the Revival of Occitan
FR 482.3 Contemporary French Literary Criticism
FR 495.3 French Theatre
FR 496.3 French Poetry from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century