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| − | LINGUISTIC MEETING NOTES 10-29-08<br>Kevin Hurley<br><br>Participants:<br>Andrei Barshkov, Italian; Claudia Cooper, English and Teacher Education Programs; Florence Feiereisen, German; Michael Geisler, Language Schools and Grad Programs; Kevin Hurley, Language Schools; Michael Sheridan, Anthropology; Ana Martinez-Lage, Spanish; Stefano Mula, Italian
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| − | BACKGROUND<br>Participants commented on recent developments and reinforced their interests in more language pedagogy and a linguistics minor. Stefano noted that there is always linguistic activity with students who choose the subject for senior theses. In the Teacher Education program, Claudia expressed the need for foreign language pedagogy for the 2 or 3 students, on average, who would benefit in their certifications. Updates on faculty hires included the addition of Andrei to the Italian department (teaching “Introduction to Romance Linguistics” in Spring ’09) ; the Spanish department’s intention to hire a linguist for next year; and Michael S. reported on a request that was recently denied for a linguist in Socio-Anthro. Michael G. reminded everyone that the EAC was in favor of the linguistic minor proposal in ’05 suggesting that, going forward, a preferred timeline for the new minor would be 2010-’11.
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| − | CHALLENGES <br>Michael G. explained the challenges with the past proposal and going forward. A recurring challenge is to get faculty commitments for course teaching, particularly consistency in the introductory courses. And the Study Abroad and Monterey semesters offer conflicting schedules e.g., should students limit their SA experience to only one semester in order to fit in another semester at MIIS?
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| − | LINGUISTICS COURSES<br>Participants reviewed their departmental contributions to linguistic courses (with emphasis on LING. 0101 & 0102) as follows:
| + | 1. Attached is the course grid we viewed. |
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| − | Italian – one course in English/year;one course in Italian/year @ 400 level (Barashkov)
| + | 2. Also attached is UVM’s listing for the Linguistics Minor (w/in Communication Sciences) and a course listing for “Introduction to Linguistics.” |
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| − | German – currently unable to offer; if agreed within the department, there is the possibility to teach an intro course or “structure of German” (Feiereisen)
| + | 3. For the linguistics library that we discussed, is there value in compiling your requests on the linguistics wiki – for everyone’s use? All I need is an email listing your purchases: title/author. |
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| − | Spanish – Language teaching/acquisition @ 300 level (Martinez-Lage); new Spanish hire
| + | 4. Finally, I will look for a MIIS’ linguistics faculty list and bios (if available). Cheers, ~Kevin<br> |
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| − | Socio-Anthro – Teaching Language & Power @ 300 level (Sheridan); currently requires intro. to anthropology course; resubmission of proposed linguist hire would add another professor
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| − | Teacher Education – Psycholinguistics or discourse analysis (Cooper)
| + | ==== LINGUISTIC MEETING NOTES 10-29-08 - (attached)<br> [[Image:Linguistic Mtg Memo 10-29-08.pdf]] ==== |
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| − | Other possible individuals/departments: Arabic (Soltan); Russian (Smorodinskaya); Chinese (Du); Classics (Sfyroera)
| + | ==== <br> LINGUISTIC MEETING NOTES 12-10-08 <br> [[Image:Linguistic Mtg Memo 12-10-08.pdf]] ==== |
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| − | It was agreed that a meeting would be convened by Michael G. with all the language department chairs to consider teaching contributions to a linguistic minor, including the introductory courses.
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| − | Solidifying these options involves distribution of departmental teaching resources and other possible solutions to the teaching commitment. Anna suggested that team teaching, by dividing the semester into 3-week sections, might be more manageable for faculty. Distance learning with MIIS, including team-teaching, or in bringing a MIIS faculty member to Middlebury were other options for both covering the linguistic courses and integrating with the MIIS program. The idea of starting introductory courses at MIIS was also considered.
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| − | Stefano recommended that LING. 0100 & 0200 be taught in 2009-’10 as interdisciplinary courses before designating the minor degree. The program would provide a pilot for assessment of student interest and reinvigorate the linguistics minor for future consideration.
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| − | There are no proposed J-Term offerings in linguistics for ’09.The possibility of courses being taught by MIIS faculty was considered but because of the forthcoming administrative change in the MIIS presidency it was not considered likely on short notice.
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| − | OTHER<br>Anna emphasized that student projects related to linguistics need to be supervised by departmental advisors (including courses in English).
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| − | Florence proposed an internal lecture series presented by interested language faculty to promote linguistic course areas and related concepts to provide background and generate student/faculty interest on campus. Michael G. referred to the Language, Mind, and Culture series as a previous opportunity to bring linguists to Middlebury. Florence agreed to revisit the series as a possible venue for her idea.
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| − | <br>ACTIONS<br>• Michael S. offered to forward his course syllabus (done)
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| − | • Kevin will organize a meeting of language department chairs (all those involved in the linguistics discussion are invited to join when a date is set).
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| − | • Michael G. will speak with Susan Campbell and discuss the reconstitution of the linguistics proposal and he will keep Renee Jourdenais (MIIS) informed.
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