Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Academic Planning Self-study Update 2014: STEP I. THE CURRICULAR CONTEXT A. Degrees, Minors, and Certificates offered by your program, individually or jointly 1. List all undergraduate and graduate degrees offered by your program (i.e. BA majors, Master’s degrees, doctoral degrees) and all joint degrees for which your program is responsible. Undergraduate

• Major in French Studies (143) • BA/MA in French Studies (1143) • Major in Italian Studies (1131) • Major in Linguistics (1505) • Major in Hispanic Language and Literatures (1135) • BA/MA in Hispanic Language and Literatures (1135) • Joint Major in Linguistics and Philosophy (1514) • Joint Major in French and Linguistics (1147) • Joint Major in Italian and Linguistics (1148) • Joint Major in Japanese and Linguistics (1149) • Joint Major in Spanish and Linguistics (1150)

Graduate

• M.A. French Language and Literature • Ph.D. French Language and Literature • M.A. Hispanic Language and Literatures • Ph.D. Hispanic Language and Literature

2. List all undergraduate minors offered by your program.

• Minor in French (1102) • Minor in Italian (1104) • Minor in Linguistics (1505) • Minor in Spanish (1105)

B. Undergraduate majors offered by other departments and programs that depend on coursework in your program

1. Undergraduate Majors in CAS: Using the listing of BA programs at http://www.bu.edu/academics/cas/programs/ to ensure completeness, list all CAS majors other than those administered individually or jointly in your department whose requirements (as spelled out in departmental sections of the bulletin) include coursework in your department.

• Major in Art History (1003) CAS LX courses satisfy requirements for the following CAS programs:

• Major in Chinese Language and Literature (1140) • Major in Italian Studies (1131) • Major in French Language and Literature (1143) • Major in Hispanic Language and Literatures (1135) • Major in Russian Language and Literature (1136) • Major in German Language and Literature (1133) • Major in Japanese Language and Literature (1108) • Major in Anthropology (2202)

2. Undergraduate majors and degrees outside CAS: Using the list of BU Schools and Colleges at http://www.bu.edu/academics/ to ensure completeness, list all non-CAS undergraduate degree programs whose requirements include coursework in your department.

• College of Communication. Undergraduate students are required to have one year of proficiency in a foreign language. COM students also enroll in many of our literature courses and frequently minor in French, Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics. They also frequently fulfill their COM concentrations in these areas. International Programs has a “film track” in its Madrid program.

• There is now a major in Cinema and Media Studies that depends on several film courses in our department as it specifically requires courses in other national cinemas.

• School of Education. CAS Linguistics courses satisfy requirements for B.S. programs in Modern Foreign Language Education, Bilingual Education/TOESOL, and Deaf Studies. French, Spanish, and Italian courses are also an essential component of the programs in Modern Foreign Language Education.

• Sargent College. CAS LX courses satisfy requirements for the B.S. in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences.

• College of Fine Arts. For example, MusAD. “The minimum requirement for students in all MusAD programs of study in the School of Music is reading competency in modern French, German, or Italian. Students in the areas of historical performance, organ, and voice are required to demonstrate proficiency in two of the above languages. In addition, voice majors must satisfactorily complete an examination in the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to English, French, German, and Italian. Faculty in Italian regularly offer language courses to CFA voice majors and to those who wish to learn Italian in order to study in Italy. In the School of Theater (BFA Acting and BFA Theater Arts), “Students must acquire 12 credits (3 courses) from a combination of Social Science and Language and Literature courses. Students must receive at least 4 credits from each of these two disciplines.”

• School of Hospitality Administration. Among “Hospitality Distribution Credits” are “two semesters of the same modern foreign language”. SHA students often take advanced language and linguistics courses. Some participate in the Paris Internship Program.

• College of Engineering, undergraduate program. General Education elective. “This 4- credit elective can be satisfied by appropriate combinations of 1-4 credit courses that include additional writing, social sciences, humanities (including languages), and fine arts, among others.”

• School of Management. Students often enroll in foreign language and linguistics courses in • Romance Studies.

Students from all of the colleges listed above are allowed to minor in Romance Studies and frequently do so. 3. Undergraduate minors: Using the listing of minors at http://www.bu.edu/academics/cas/programs/, list all (CAS and other) minors whose requirements can be fulfilled by required or elective coursework in your department. Following are examples of minors that have requirements that can be fulfilled by required or elective coursework in RS:

• Minor in African Languages & Literature (1116) (LX 250, LX 501 Linguistic Field Methods) • Minor in African Studies (0305) (LF 456, LX 250, LX 501) • Latin American Studies (certain LS courses—LS 455, 457, 554, 572, 576—given in Spanish

are counted for the Major and Minor in Latin American Studies).1 As the Department adds more advanced courses on Brazilian literature and culture (e.g., LP 310, LP 350), these will also count toward the LAS Major and Minor.

• Minor in Film Studies (LF 286, LF 556, LI 283, LP 310, LS 579, XL 386, LF 469) • Medieval Studies Minor (2217) (among approved courses are LF 457, 564, 565, LI 350, 555,

556, XL 383, and 385, and LS 456, 567, and 568) • Minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2240): LS 575, LX 320 count towards the

minor. C. Graduate programs offered by other departments and schools that depend on coursework in your program 1. GRS Master’s Programs outside your department. Using the list at http://www.bu.edu/academics/grs/programs/, list all Master’s degree programs whose requirements (as spelled out in departmental sections of the bulletin) include coursework in your department. The M.A. in Latin American Studies lists several LS courses for its requirements in History and Archeology (CAS LS 572 Spanish American Colonial Experience) and Literature, Art, and Culture (CAS LS 554 Borges; CAS LS 556 Contemporary Spanish American Novel; CAS LS 569 19th Century Spanish-American Literature; CAS LS 572 Spanish-American Colonial Experience; CAS LS 573 Spanish American Literary Modernismo and Modernization; CAS LS 576 Topics in Spanish-

1 No other LS, LF, LI, or LP courses are included in IR requirements, and International Relations majors are not required to have higher levels of language proficiency than other students in CAS.

American Literature; CAS LS 577 Topics in Hispanic Thought & Criticism; CAS LS 579 Topics in Hispanic Cinemas; GRS LS 850 Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature; GRS LS 851 Writing in the Americas I; GRS LS 852 Writing in the Americas II). The MA program in Latin American Studies includes as options all the 500-level courses and graduate seminars on Latin American literature offered by RS. 2. GRS Doctoral Programs. Using the list at http://www.bu.edu/academics/grs/programs/, list all doctoral programs whose requirements (as spelled out in departmental sections of the bulletin) include coursework in your department. 1 & 2. GRS Master’s and Doctoral Programs outside your department. Many MA and PhD programs have a language requirement for the MA, and Romance Studies offers courses in languages that fulfill these requirements (for example, LF 621, LI 621, LP 621, LS621). These programs include African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Archaeology, Art History, Biostatistics, Cellular Biophysics, Classical Studies, English, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Some of these departments require “proficiency” in another language at an early stage of graduate study. In contrast, International Relations requires students to “demonstrate graduate-level reading proficiency in a foreign language.” All of the 500-level linguistics courses offered through Romance Studies satisfy requirements for the MA and PhD programs in Applied Linguistics; these include:

• CAS LX 500 Topics in Linguistics • CAS LX 501 Linguistic Field Methods • CAS LX 502 Semantics 1 • CAS LX 503 Semantics 2 • CAS LX 504 Topics in Pragmatics • CAS LX 510 Phonetics (required of all MA students) • CAS LX 513 Phonology (required of all PhD students) • CAS LX 515 Languages in Contact • CAS LX 517 “Having” and “Being” across Languages • CAS LX 518 Focus • CAS LX 519 Questions • CAS LX 521 Morphology • CAS LX 522 Syntax 1 (required of all graduate students) • CAS LX 523 Syntax 2 (required of all PhD students) • CAS LX 525 Prosody • CAS LX 530 Variation in English Dialects (new course; approval pending) • CAS LX 532 Romance Linguistics • CAS LX 535 Historical and Comparative Linguistics • CAS LX 540 Acquisition of Syntax • CAS LX 541 Phonological Development (new course; approval pending) • CAS LX 542 Second Language Acquisition (new course; approval pending) • CAS LX 545 Bilingualism (new course; approval pending)

• CAS LX 546 Incomplete Acquisition and Language Attrition (new course; approval pending) Other RS courses satisfy requirements and electives for different tracks within the MA and PhD programs in Applied Linguistics. For example, the following are also available as electives for graduate students in Applied Linguistics with appropriate specializations.

• CAS LF 500 French Phonetics • CAS LF 502 Structure of French: Syntax • CAS LF 503 Structure of French: Phonology • CAS LF/LX 506 Topics in French Linguistics • CAS LS 505: Topics in Spanish Linguistics • CAS LS/LX 507: Sounds of Spanish • CAS LS/LX 508: Structure of Spanish

Dennis Costa’s Dante seminar and XL/RN course on “Apocalypse and Literature” are alternatively offered to graduate students in the Division of Religions and Theological Studies. Nancy Harrowitz has developed a recently approved graduate component to LI/RN 459 “Primo Levi Within Holocaust Studies,” RN 759, for graduate students in STH and students in other programs who may be interested. 3. Non-GRS Graduate Degrees. Using the list of Schools and Colleges at http://www.bu.edu/academics/, list any non-GRS graduate programs whose requirements include coursework in your department. SED:

• Master of Arts in Teaching; • Ed.D. in Development Studies—Literacy & Language Education: The Language Education

specialization allows LX 250 to count as one of two options for a requirement, and also requires two additional CAS LX courses.

SAR: BS/MS in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences [CAS LX 250 required] D. College Requirements and Programs: Writing, Foreign Language, Math, Core Curriculum, Divisional Studies In general, all departments and programs have responsibilities for selected aspects of the CAS curriculum that go beyond the major. Describe your department’s typical role in any of the following in which it has participated. (In what ways has your department contributed? To what extent?) For any aspect in which your department (including through individual faculty) has not played a recent role, enter “None.” 1. Core Curriculum Two RS faculty have taught regularly in the Core: Dennis Costa (Italian) and Alan Smith (Spanish). Jennifer Row will be teaching in Core next year. 2. Kilachand Honors College

This year Alicia Borinsky is teaching the Sophomore course “The Nature of Inquiry” fall 2014 and Danny Erker will be teaching in the KHC in spring 2015. There are also two TFs (Adel Faitaninho and Philip Noonan) from the RS department involved with Borinsky’s course. Borinsky will be teaching in KHC Fall 15 again with 2 TFS from our department. 3. Teaching seminars toward fulfillment of the College Writing requirement RS faculty have not taught frequently in the Writing Program. However, faculty teaching language and literature routinely offer instruction on writing in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. A significant part of the grade of all courses numbered from 211 through 309 is derived from writing assignments. Graduate students from RS have occasionally taught in the Writing Program; there is interest in more frequent collaboration in this area. 4. Implementation of the foreign language requirement Most students in CAS come into contact with our courses because of the CAS Foreign Language Requirement: “Successful completion of a foreign language at the advanced (fourth semester) level, unless satisfied by a score of 560 or above on the SAT-Foreign Language Subject Test, or by a score of 3, 4, or 5 on an Advanced Placement Foreign Language Exam (4 or 5 for Latin).” 5. Offering Divisional Studies courses that also serve as gateways to your major(s) CAS LX 205 The Origins of Writing (new this year); CAS LX 240 Great Linguists; CAS LX 245 Language and Mind; CAS LX 250 Introduction to Linguistics; CAS LX 340 Language Myths; CAS LF 350 Introduction to Analysis of French Texts; CAS LI 350 Italian Literature I: Medieval; CAS LI 351 Italian Literature II: Renaissance and Baroque; CAS LI 352 Italian Literature III: Modern Period CAS LS 350 Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts (With advisor’s approval and appropriate prerequisites, students may take any of the following literature and linguistics courses, when offered, for humanities divisional credit: French: CAS LF 250, 286, 356, 451-453, 455-457, 460; Italian: LI 283, 450, 452, 453, 473; Linguistics: LX 235, 502, 510, 521, 522, 535 (Any of these 5xx courses can be taken after LX 250 as a second course in linguistics); Spanish: LS 250, 452, 454-457. While some of these courses are offered only occasionally, others have up to five sections per semester (LS 350), and some are quite large (e.g., CAS LX250 has had over 100 students). 6. Offering Divisional Studies courses that do not also count toward majors in your department or division CAS LF 250/251 Masterpieces of the French Novel (in English translation); CAS LF 286 French Cinema (in English Translation); CAS LI 250 Masterpieces of Modern Italian Literature (in English translation); CAS LS 250 The Novelistic Tradition in the Hispanic World (in English translation) 7. Offering selected courses that are not important for fulfilling requirements for your major(s) or minor(s), but are in very high demand by students because of their interests

None 8. Any other aspects of the CAS/GRS curriculum you want to mention Some undergraduate programs encourage students to study foreign languages. For example, History (2205), or Music Major (1005), where all concentrators must complete CAS LF212 or the equivalent, and those who intend to go on to graduate school in music are urged to prepare themselves in a second foreign language.

STEP II. ASSESSMENT OF CURRICULAR OBLIGATIONS AND NEEDS A. OBLIGATIONS TOWARD UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. 1. Which courses and course types should be offered every semester?

• First four semesters of language instruction in French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. • Advanced (300-level) language courses should also be offered every semester in those

languages. • LF 350, needed by French majors and minors • LF 351, needed by French majors and minors • Four LF 400/500 level courses, needed by French major and minors (at least one course on a

period prior to 1800 and one course on a period after 1800) • LS 350, needed by Spanish majors and minors.

Linguistics

• CAS LX 250 Introduction to Linguistics • CAS LX 502 Semantics 1 • CAS LX 510 Phonetics • CAS LX 522 Syntax 1

All of the above are essential for the Linguistics major and minor (and the new joint majors in Linguistics and Philosophy, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish); CAS LX 250 also satisfies major requirements for all of the other RS majors (as well as additional concentrations in MLCL and in some other programs, as listed earlier). 2. Which courses and course types should be offered annually? French

• At least one course from CAS LF 500, 502, 503, 504, or 506 (required for the major in French and

• Linguistics, also counting toward degrees in French and in Linguistics) • LF348 (formerly LF 340; usually offered every Spring semester) • At least four 400/500 level literature courses • LF 556 and/or LF 586

Italian LI 303, 304, and 305 LI 283 and LI473 (Italian film courses) The three-course literature survey in Italian is cycled continuously, so that in any given year two of them are offered. Spanish 400-level courses (surveys: LS 454, LS455, LS456, LAS457)

Sufficient number of 500-level courses at least two per semester. Linguistics Critical: core courses essential for the Linguistics major, joint majors, and honors programs, the Linguistics minor, and/or for other programs; 2 advanced courses should be offered each semester, with at least one per year in each of the majors subareas of Linguistics: At least one advanced course per year in Semantics

• CAS LX 503 Semantics 2, CAS LX 504 Topics in Pragmatics (offered in alternate years) At least one advanced course per year in Phonology

• CAS LX 513 Phonology, CAS LX 525 Prosody (offered in alternate years) At least one advanced course per year in Syntax

• CAS LX 523 Syntax 2 (or a CAS LX 500 Topics course covering an appropriate topic in syntax)

Other Important courses meeting requirements for our degree programs and for other programs (A) targeted specifically to undergraduates:

• CAS LX 320 Language, Race and Gender • CAS LX 406 Linguistics of Contemporary English

(B) available to both undergraduates and graduate students:

• CAS LX 500 Topics in Linguistics • CAS LX 501 Field Methods • CAS LX 521 Morphology • CAS LX 530 Variation in English Dialects • CAS LX 535 Historical and Comparative Linguistics • CAS LX 542 Second Language Acquisition (new course, approval pending) • CAS LX 545 Bilingualism (new course, approval pending)

French linguistics [1 course per academic year: offered in rotation]

• CAS LF 500 French Phonetics • CAS LF 502 Structure of French: Syntax • CAS LF 503 Structure of French: Phonology

Spanish linguistics [generally at least 2 courses offered per academic year]

• CAS LS/LX 420 Spanish in the US • CAS LS 505 Topics in Spanish Linguistics • CAS LS/LX 507 Structure of Spanish: Sounds of Spanish • CAS LS/LX 508 Structure of Spanish: Syntax

Broad courses serving undergraduates including those not specializing in linguistics; ideally we should offer at least one of these per year:

• CAS LX 205 The Origins of Writing • CAS LX 235 Language in the Contemporary World

• CAS LX Great Linguists • CAS LX 245 Language and Mind

3. Which courses and course types should be offered every other academic year or every third year? Most 500-level courses (mixed graduate/undergraduate) in French and Spanish may be offered every other year (or even every three years), but there is a minimum number that must be offered each semester. In Italian, the following will be offered in alternate years:

• CAS LI 553 Petrarch • CAS LI 555 Dante Seminar • CAS LI 556 Dante Seminar • CAS LI 450 Modern Novel • CAS LI 590 Topics in Literature

In Linguistics, the following courses (in addition to those listed above as participating in a specific rotation with other courses in a given subject area) should be offered at least every other year (the exact frequency being determined in part by the total number of courses that need to be offered in a given semester):

• CAS LX 515 Languages in Contact: The high stakes of grammatical border-crossing • CAS LX 517 "Having" and "Being" across Languages • CAS LX 523 Romance Linguistics • CAS LX 540 Acquisition of Syntax • CAS LX 541 Phonological Development (new course, approval pending) • CAS LX 546 Incomplete Acquisition and Language Attrition (new course, approval pending)

Courses that should be offered at least every 3rd year (the exact frequency being determined in part by the total number of courses that need to be offered in a given semester):

• CAS LX 518 Focus • CAS LX 519 Questions

We intend to propose that all of our French and Spanish linguistics courses also be cross-listed as LX courses. B. OBLIGATIONS TOWARD GRADUATE EDUCATION. Taking into account your department’s obligations in graduate education as specified in Step I above, list specific courses (number and name) and course types that your faculty should offer in order to serve students well in allowing them to finish their degrees in a timely way. Every department and program also ought to offer a wider set of courses that enrich the educational program, take advantage of faculty expertise, etc. 1. Which courses and course types should be offered every semester?

• For French MA and PhD students, at least three seminars per year and 2-3 500-level courses per semester (depending on number of seminars and number of 400-level courses offered)

• For Spanish MA and PhD students, at least four seminars per year and 2-4 500-level courses per semester (the PhD program in Spanish is larger than that in French) not including 500-level LS courses in Linguistics.

• Both French and Spanish graduate students must take 699 as well as a 2 course pedagogy class, LL 690 and 691, to prepare our students for their future careers.

At the moment, the Linguistics section does not offer courses intended primarily for graduate students. Students in graduate programs based elsewhere in the university, including the Program in Applied Linguistics, rely on the core courses we offer for our undergraduate programs. Our academic planning, however, takes into consideration the need to offer courses for the existing graduate programs. However, as we proceed with development of new graduate programs in Linguistics, we will have to adjust our course offerings so that we can best meet the needs of the new programs while maintaining the essential courses needed for our undergraduates. This is being addressed in the planning process now underway. 2. Which courses and course types should be offered annually?

• LS 504 (History of the Spanish Language) • LS 507 or LS 508 (Sounds of Spanish, Structure of Spanish), which can be taken instead of

LS 504 • LF 621, LI 621, LP 621, LS 621 (these courses service the needs of other GRS programs) • LF/LS 690 and 691 (pedagogy courses in how to teach language)

3. Which courses and course types should be offered every other academic year or every third year? RS must offer its graduate students a minimum number of 500-level courses and seminars every year (as noted above). Most 500-level courses can be offered every other year (if not every three years in some cases).

• LS 570 (Cervantes’ Don Quijote), a required course for graduate students in Spanish, must be offered every other year.

STEP III. PLANNING FOR EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, EQUITABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE COURSE STAFFING French

• LF 111-212: every semester, multiple sections contingent on enrollment: full-time and part-time lecturers, TFs

• LF 113: every fall, 1 section: Lakin-Schultz • LF 303: every semester, 3-4 sections: full-time lecturers, tenured/tenure-track faculty, senior

TFs • LS 304: every semester, 2-3 sections: full-time lecturers, tenure/tenure-track faculty, and

occasionally a senior TF. • LF 305: every semester, 1 section: full-time lecturers, and occasionally tenure/tenure-track

faculty • LF 306: every semester, 1-2 sections: full-time lecturers • LF 341: every fall, 1 section: Hawkes • LF 348: every spring, 1 section: Dusewoir • LF 350: 3 sections in the fall, 2 in the spring: Mehlman, Kleiman, Kelly, Kline (at times

Cazenave, Row), occasionally a senior TF • LF351: every semester, 1 section in the fall, 2 sections in the spring: Cazenave, Kelly, Kline,

Row • LF 500, 502, 503 (French linguistics), in alternation, 1 every spring: Neidle • LF 860: 2 fall, 1 spring each semester: Cazenave, Jackson, Kelly, Kleiman, Kline, Mehlman,

Row • LF 556 and/or LF 586: Kline • LF 621: every year, fall and spring semester: Huckle

Italian

• LI 111-212: multiple sections, depending on enrollment: full- and part-time lecturers • LI 303: 2 sections each fall semester: Tonetti, Coté, Brusetti • LI 304: 1 section each spring semester: Tonetti, Coté • LI 305: new course based upon different cultural topics: R. Coté. • LI 250: offered periodically, usually in the spring semester, alternated with LI 288:

Harrowitz. • LI 283: alternate years in the spring semester, alternated with LI 473: Tonetti. • LI 288: offered periodically, usually in the fall semester, alternated with LI 250: Harrowitz. • LI 340: alternate years in the fall semester, alternated with LI 349 • LI 349: alternate years in the fall semester: R. Coté • LI 350 (first part of the Survey of Italian Literature): offered in sequence with LI 351 and LI

352, offered therefore every fourth semester: Costa. • LI 351 (second part of the Survey of Italian Literature): offered in sequence, as above, and

therefore every fourth semester: Costa or Harrowitz. • LI 352 (third part of the Survey of Italian Literature): offered in sequence, as above, and

therefore every fourth semester: Harrowitz. • LI 450: alternate years, usually in the fall semester, in alternation with LI 453: Harrowitz. • LI 452: every other year in the spring semester, and in alternation with LI 553: Costa

• LI 453: alternate years, usually in the fall semester, in alternation with LI 450: Harrowitz. • LI 459: Primo Levi Within Holocaust Studies, offered alternate years, cross-listed with XL

and RN and with RN 759: Harrowitz • LI 473: alternate years in the spring semester, in alternation with LI 283: Tonetti. • LI 553: every other year in the spring semester, and in alternation with LI 452: Costa. • LI 555 (first part of the Dante course): offered in alternate years, in the fall semester: Costa. • LI 556 (second part of the Dante course): offered in alternate years, in the spring semester:

Costa. • LI 590: offered periodically, usually in the spring semester: Harrowitz. • LI 621: fall semester: Tonetti, Coté • LI 351 (second part of the Survey of Italian Literature): offered in sequence, as above, and

therefore every fourth semester: Costa or Harrowitz. • LI 352 (third part of the Survey of Italian Literature): offered in sequence, as above, and

therefore every fourth semester: Harrowitz. • LI 450: alternate years, usually in the fall semester, in alternation with LI 453: Harrowitz. • LI 452: every other year in the spring semester, and in alternation with LI 553: Costa • LI 453: alternate years, usually in the fall semester, in alternation with LI 450: Harrowitz. • LI 459: Primo Levi Within Holocaust Studies, offered alternate years, cross-listed with XL

and RN and with RN 759: Harrowitz • LI 473: alternate years in the spring semester, in alternation with LI 283: Tonetti. • LI 553: every other year in the spring semester, and in alternation with LI 452: Costa. • LI 555 (first part of the Dante course): offered in alternate years, in the fall semester: Costa. • LI 556 (second part of the Dante course): offered in alternate years, in the spring semester:

Costa. • LI 590: offered periodically, usually in the spring semester: Harrowitz. • LI 621: fall semester: Tonetti, Coté

NB: Prof. Costa also teaches courses in XL, RN (cross-listed in TX), CC. Prof. Harrowitz also teaches courses in XL (cross-listed in RN. Portuguese

• LP 111 every fall semester: Bianconi, part-time Lecturer • LP 123 every spring semester: Bianconi, part-time Lecturer • LP 112 every spring semester: Bianconi, part-time Lecturer • LP 211 every fall semester: Bianconi, part-time Lecturer • LP 212 every spring semester: Bianconi, part-time Lecturer • LP 305 every semester: Bianconi, Lopes de Barros • LP 307 Portuguese for Business and Professional Life • LP 310 every other year: Lopes de Barros • LP 350 once per year, Lopes de Barros • LP 452 “Topics in the Invention of Brazil”, every other year: Lopes de Barros • LP 454 Tropical Metropolis, every other year: Lopes de Barros

Spanish

• LS 111-LS 212 every semester: full-time lecturers, TFs, part-time lecturers • LS 305, every semester, occasionally tenure-track faculty, full-time lecturers • LS 306, every semester, occasionally tenure-track faculty, full-time lecturers, adjuncts, TFs • LS 307, every semester, occasionally tenure-track faculty, full-time lecturers, adjuncts, TFs • LS 308, every semester, full-time lecturers, adjuncts, TFs • LS 309, once a year, full-time lecturers (usually Villanueva) • LS 310, every semester, occasionally tenure-track faculty, full-time lecturers • LS 350, several sections every semester: Borinsky, Iffland, Lasarte, Lopes de Barros, Maurer,

Pineda, Smith, Zaderenko, advanced TFs. • LS 452, every semester: Iffland, Smith, Pineda • LS 454, 1 section, every semester: Maurer, Smith • LS 455, 1 section, every semester: Lasarte, Pineda • LS 456, 1 section, every semester: Iffland, Maurer, Zaderenko • LS 457, 2 sections, every semester: Borinsky, Iffland, Lasarte, Pineda • LS 504, as needed Zaderenko • LS 505, fall or spring as needed: Erker • LS 507, fall semester: Erker • LS 508, spring semester: Erker • LS 500-level literature courses, 2-4 per semester: Borinsky, Iffland, Lasarte, Lopes de

Barros, Maurer, Pineda, Smith, Zaderenko. • LS 850, 4 per year: Borinsky, Iffland, Lasarte, Lopes de Barros, Maurer, Pineda, Smith,

Zaderenko. • LS 621: spring semester: full-time lecturer (or part-time lecturer)

*Full-time lecturers currently include: Angelica Avcikurt, Mildred Basker-Siegel, Alison Carberry, María Datel, Sue Griffin, Viktoria Hackbarth, Molly Monet-Viera, Veronica Rodríguez-Ballesteros, Borja Ruiz de Arbulo, Marta Villar, and Elizabeth Lozano and Tino Villanueva who are retiring at the end of this academic year. Linguistics

• CAS LX 205, frequency TBD: Nikolaev [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 235, 240, 245, 340 — frequency dependent on offerings of LX 205: Alrenga • CAS LX 250, every semester: Neidle (fall), Barnes (spring) • CAS LX 320, every other year: Erker [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 406, every year (may be reduced to every other year in the future): Alrenga

[normally spring] • CAS LX 501, every year: Myler, O’Connor [normally offered in spring] • CAS LX 502, every semester: Alrenga • CAS LX 503, every other year: Alrenga [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 504, every other year: Alrenga [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 510, every semester: Barnes, Chang • CAS LX 513, at least once every other year: Barnes [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 515, every other year: Erker [normally offered in fall]

• CAS LX 517, every other year: Myler [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 518, at least once every three years: Hagstrom [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 519, at least once every three years: Hagstrom [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 521, every year: Myler

CAS LX 522, every semester: Hagstrom • CAS LX 523, at least once every other year: Hagstrom [normally offered in spring] • CAS LX 525, at least once every other year: Barnes [normally offered in spring] • CAS LX 530, once a year: Myler [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 532, once every other year: Romance Linguistics [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 535, at least once every other year; once every year if possible: Barnes, Nikolaev

[normally offered in spring] • CAS LX 540, at least ever other year: Hagstrom [normally offered in spring] • CAS LX 541, every other year: Chang [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 542, every year: Chang [normally offered in fall] • CAS LX 546 every other year: Chang [normally offered in fall] • CAS LS/LX 507, every year: Erker [normally offered in fall] • CAS LS/LX 508, every year: Erker [normally offered in spring] • CAS LF 500, 502, 503, 506 – in alternation, one each spring: Neidle

STEP IV: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF UPDATES AND TEN-YEAR PLANNING 1. UPDATES: Please list all major updates that you made to this document this year. N.B. Our Academic Planning Self-Study Update for this year will be supplemented by a departmental self-evaluation and by an outside review.

a) Hiring of Neil Myler (starting in 2014) and Charles Chang (starting in 2015) in Linguistics. b) Hiring of two new lecturers in Spanish, Viktoria Hackbarth and Borja Ruiz de Arbulo. c) Planning for new Spanish major continues and is close to completion. d) Planning continues for a more productive arrangement for Lecturers for course-load and

coordination and for improving the workplace for Lecturers. 2. GOALS AND PLANNING: With continuing reference to the three preceding sections of this Self-Study, please discuss significant changes, beyond those already documented above, that your unit is planning or that you foresee occurring over the next three years, and assess the potential impact of those changes on the scope and quality of academic programs. A. The Curricular Context: How will your unit’s set of commitments and priorities in undergraduate and graduate education evolve (include enrollment projections in cases where you foresee a substantial change in student numbers)? List any academic programs that you are currently proposing/developing/reviewing/revising or planning to propose/develop/review/revise, either within your department or in collaboration with other units of the College and University. French As part of the adjustment toward French Studies and newly redesigned major, the section is developing some new courses at the 400-level centering on popular culture (for example, on the graphic novel and Franco-Belgian comic strips). Further changes are underway in 300-level language courses, in order to attract more students to the continuing study of French language, literature, film, and culture. Italian The Italian section wishes to establish a BA/MA program in Italian Studies. Such a program would include at least one semester of study at the University’s Centro di Studi in Padova. This program should prove attractive to students wishing to teach the Italian language and culture at the high school and Junior College levels. The Italian section argues that for Italian to grow and to thrive, a third professorial rank faculty member needs to be hired, at the level of Assistant Professor. This new faculty member would specialize in Italian American studies, and preferably in film studies as well. Italian American studies is a fast growing and dynamic field in this country that is sure to attract students from outside BU as well as from other departments such as history. It is important to note in this regard that Nancy Harrowitz, one of the two professorial rank faculty in the program, will continue as chair of the department through Spring 2016, and then be on sabbatical 2016/2017. Basic courses in Italian for the major and minor will need to be offered by another

faculty member. A lecturer in Core, Gabrielle Sims, will be picking up part of the slack by offering LI 590 Spring ’15. A longer-term solution, however, needs to be sought. Portuguese We have a new tenure track faculty member in Portuguese and Spanish, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, who is developing more courses in Portuguese as well as a Portuguese minor as well, along with Celia Bianconi. BU's Portuguese program has been attracting national attention, as Bianconi, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, and Sue Griffin, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, have won a STARTALK grant from the U.S. government (National Security Language Initiative) for the summer training of high school and college Portuguese instructors for three consecutive years. STARTALK seeks to "expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the U.S." We expect to continue the STARTALK program if grant applications are successful. In 2013/2014 we had a total of 107 students enrolled in all LP courses, and in fall 2014 there are 56 students enrolled. This represents a significant increase from the handful of students we had since 2009-2010. Increasing emphasis is placed on Brazilian Portuguese, within the context of Portuguese as a world language. The development of our language and literature program is greatly enhanced by the Study Abroad program in Rio, which was successfully launched in the summer 2013 and continued in summer 2014. In anticipation of these developments, we are designing new 300 and 400 level courses that accommodate student interest in language and cultural competencies, and a minor that allows them to pursue their interest in the Portuguese language and the Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking world in general. The new 300 and 400 level courses will be taught in Portuguese and will serve as the basis for a future minor. These courses will require that students take the four-semester sequence of LP 111-LP 212. In 2014-2015, we are planning to inaugurate LP 350. The section plans to develop an interdisciplinary minor in Brazilian Studies, which enables students with an interest in Lusophone/Brazilian literary, cultural or area studies to develop a versatile and flexible minor with a focus on Portuguese language and Brazilian culture that takes advantage of both teaching expertise in Romance Studies as well as that of faculty members that teach relevant courses in other departments. Members of the History and Political Science departments as well as African-American Studies currently teach courses on Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa. This curricular richness will allow students pursuing a minor to tailor it to their particular interests and fields of study, whether in the humanities or the social sciences. This flexible, interdisciplinary strategy for the minor will help to sustain, and potentially grow, the enrollments in our LP advanced courses, given that students will need to take those courses to reach the total number of courses required. It is important to note how these new offerings at a more advanced level will change our present distribution of teaching assignments. Every academic year we have had to hire a part-time lecturer to teach one or two sections of Portuguese language courses each semester. In order to meet the demands of our anticipated future enrollments and to fulfill our curricular obligations toward the minor, If numbers grow as we anticipate, thus requiring Célia Bianconi to teach some advanced LP courses, we will need to hire at least two more part-time lecturers, or possibly a full-time one.

Finally, with the newly launched Study Abroad in Brazil, we anticipate a substantial leap in enrollments here on the Charles River campus. Such an eventuality will require us to calibrate the projections outlined above. Spanish The Spanish section is engaged in major curricular reform, as outlined below. A new system of financial aid (five years of guaranteed support for doctoral students, none for M.A. students) has affected many aspects of the graduate program. Among the most pressing issues now under discussion are optimum time to completion; optimum program size; size and quality of applicant pool; placement of graduates; and system of preliminary exams. Practically every aspect of the program is under discussion, and certain aspects (exams, required courses) have already been revised. One of our goals for this year is to continue to increase the pool of high-quality applicants to the Ph.D. program, particularly post-M.A. applicants, and to strengthen TF training in literary theory and in language teaching. Our graduate students continued to show a high level of achievement: one of them won a Fulbright Fellowship (the second such fellowship over the past three years). Our increased recruitment efforts last year led to many more applicants than usual and a topnotch group of entering PhD students, one of whom had won admission to a peer plus institution but decided to come to BU instead. The section also continues work on the redesign of the undergraduate major in Spanish. Discussions last year led to new requirements that will be submitted soon to the appropriate committees: the replacement of the old system of survey courses based on literary history with a new, more attractive 400-level courses that examine a broad theme (for example, love, exile, or literature and politics) in texts chosen from among different historical periods. Specific course proposals are now being prepared. The section also discussed the best way to integrate Linguistics courses—both LX courses and courses devoted specifically to Spanish linguistics-- into the Spanish major, and the relation of the Spanish major to the dual major in Spanish and Linguistics, which has become an attractive option for students. Discussion also revolved around the integration of Brazilian studies, Portuguese language study, into the Spanish major. These discussions were given impetus by the presence of new Assistant Professors in Linguistics and in Brazilian. The language program, strengthened with the addition of two new full-time Lecturers, had already undergone renovation with the creation of new fifth- and sixth-semester writing-intensive courses on “Literature and the Arts,” “Translation,” “Film and Literature,” and “Spanish for the Professions,” courses which have been very successful and which we will continue to offer. A new course is being proposed, “Spanish Through Performance,” for Fall 2014. Through these new courses the section hopes to retain more students in language study beyond the fourth-semester level and address the decline in the number of majors. Drawing on its grant from Banco Santander/Sovereign Bank (renewed in 2011-2012) the section continued its organization and sponsorship of “Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic Voices.” This grant, which helped us refurbish the first floor of the Casa Hispánica on Bay State Road (completed in summer 2012) allowed us to stage cultural events with prominent speakers from the Spanish-speaking world and a series of highly successful workshops for Boston-area teachers (the most recent, on how to teach film, attracted nearly 40 area teachers). Voces Hispánicas also continued to sponsor Spanish classes for adult learners in Roxbury in collaboration with the Women’s Service

Club of Boston (graduate students in Romance Studies served as instructors and a Lecturer as coordinator). Linguistics Our majors and relatively recent joint majors, and associated honors programs, have been attracting students (over 90 as of October 2014). The combined enrollments in our Linguistics and joint majors have remained relatively stable in the last couple of years. Discussions have begun with several other units about the possibility of additional joint majors in the future. Our top priorities for additional joint majors to be developed in the future include: CAS English; CAS Classical Studies; CAS Computer Science; and SAR Speech and Hearing Sciences (proposal currently under development). The biggest change we anticipate affecting the outlook for RS Linguistics over the next ten years involves the staged implementation of plans for the creation of an MA and PhD (and therefore also a joint BA/MA) program in Linguistics. In terms of specific courses, our needs are quite straightforward. We currently offer strong foundational training in the core areas of linguistics at the undergraduate level, but still have little that could be construed as graduate-level, or even advanced undergraduate, coursework. The creation of new graduate programs will require a new array of advanced linguistics courses. These new courses and their place in the proposed program of study will form part of the proposals for new degree programs to be submitted in the near future. We expect that we will also be proposing joint BA/MA programs in Linguistics, French Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics, and Linguistics & Philosophy. B. Specific Course Needs: In what significant ways will the changes listed in “A” above affect the courses (kind, size, format, offering patterns) you will need to offer? As just mentioned, curricular changes associated with the creation of new graduate programs will be outlined in detail in the proposals that will be submitted. As reconfigurations of some majors and minors and the new joint majors take hold, we will need to adapt existing courses and create new ones. Along with the more conventional language and literature courses, the Department may need to develop some with a more cross-disciplinary perspective. With respect to the establishment of a Portuguese minor, we will need to continue developing the aforementioned tier of third-year language courses and intermediate-level literature/culture courses. If the Italian section offered a B.A/M.A. program, it would need to develop a larger tier of 500-level courses. The Linguistics section, too, will need to create new advanced courses if its plans to offer graduate degrees move forward. C. Course Staffing: How do you see the next ten years of turnover and renewal affecting the composition and profile of your faculty? Please think especially of how you will use replacement positions to build areas of new or continuing high priority in research and teaching. How will these changes affect your planning for the implementation of current and future curricula?

Tenured faculty. The great majority of the professorial faculty of Romance Studies will either be retired or close to it within the next ten years, and some sooner than that. This includes all full professors in French and Spanish and both associate professors in Italian: Kline, Kelly, Mehlman, Maurer, Borinsky, Iffland, Lasarte, Zaderenko (already contemplating early retirement), Smith, Costa, and Harrowitz. This would leave only Row, possibly Pineda, and Lopes de Barros in French and Spanish. Linguistics will most likely have split off from RO by then so I am not taking them into account. The Department and CAS will need to develop a strategy for both maintaining current strengths and opening up new curricular horizons. They will need to assure that the departure of a large cohort of tenured faculty over a relatively short period will not prove disruptive to the fulfilling of the Department’s obligations with respect to CAS as a whole. It will be especially important to hire at the rank of associate professor for some of these lines so as to ensure continuity of our programs, as so many faculty approach retirement age at once. Experienced lecturers are also approaching retirement age: we have three retirements at the end of this year (Livni, Villanueva and Lozano) and one planning on retirement after next year (Dorff). In French, there are two major gaps apparent in coverage that should be addressed. The first is a position in Renaissance that has been left empty for a long time. The second is the 18th century position, that Susan Jackson covers when her decanal duties permit. We need to hire for at least one of these positions in the near future, as the French section is currently understaffed. It is difficult to cover even necessary sections of LF 350 with current staffing. The Spanish section is also understaffed. We have a vibrant and growing graduate program in Spanish with a relatively small faculty, and undergraduate enrollments are strong in the advanced level courses. It is difficult to find the faculty every semester to teach a sufficient number of 400 and 500 level courses, so another line in Spanish should be discussed in the near future. Lecturer Consolidations. The Department looks forward to the continuing consolidation of part-time Lecturer positions into full-time positions. This should be done in connection with the right-sizing of the graduate program (TFs can replace part-time lecturers in some courses). This will strengthen the servicing of our language curriculum needs in many important ways. If the enrollment caps in the language courses continue to be lowered, we will need an increase (relatively modest) in Lecturers or Teaching Fellows. The proliferation of part-timers would be seen as a step backward in the evolution of the Department. "Ladder" system for Lecturers. We are asking CAS to consider modifying the Senior Lecturer promotion guidelines so that future hires of Lecturers can be made at the rank either of Lecturer or of Senior Lecturer. Funding the salary difference would not be a severe blow to the budget and would allow us to conduct truly 'national' searches for talented language instructors and course heads. Lecturer Workload. A pressing need--for sure the most important personnel-related need mentioned in this report because it affects so many students and faculty members--is to reconfigure the workload of fulltime Lecturers, with the goal of reducing it to 3/2 (and, at the same time, eliminating stipends for coordination.) The Lecturers' present workload --which involves, with few exceptions, teaching 6 courses and serving as course heads of multi-section courses--is a serious hindrance to improving the language program. To take one example, a Lecturer directing an intermediate

language course is teaching 6 sections per year @ 18 students of writing-intensive courses and is also coordinator of 28 sections per year of a course taught by a not always easy-to-coordinate mix of part-time Lecturers, Lecturers and graduate students. Course heads of large multi-section courses earn stipends, but we are exploring with CAS alternative arrangements that would allow them to invest more time both in their teaching and in course development. Introduced as a transitional measure that would help the Department achieve salary equity among Lecturers, the stipend system has been a constant source of confusion and discord and now needs to be eliminated, if in conjunction with raising lecturers’ salaries. Lecturer salaries. CAS has made strides over the past few years in improving Lecturer salaries, but more improvement is urgently needed. A few equity cases, which arose because we met Department of Labor requirements for minimum salaries for Lecturers with visas (non-U.S. citizens) now need to be addressed. Staff issues: We have been understaffed for a long time, and so are asking for a fourth fulltime staff position. The AA for the department works impossibly long hours, as does the assistant to the graduate program, and this situation needs to be remedied in order to ensure the smooth running of the department. Submitted by Nancy Harrowitz, chair