Admission requirements
Ontario secondary schools
- 1 grade 12 4U English
- 5 other grade 12 4U/M courses
See Admissions for other requirements.
General information
The department offers both 3-year and 4-year programs.
The 3-year B.A. programs are available in Italian and/or Spanish (including Spanish American) languages and literatures. Courses in Cree and Ojibwe are offered through the Department of Native Studies, and Latin and Greek through the Department of Classical Studies. Courses are offered in such a way annually that full-time students can complete a concentration in three years (or less, if spring session courses are taken). Part-time students can complete a concentration in six years, if they take only one course a year. Because the language of instruction in advanced courses is thae language taught (E or F is not included in the course number), successful completion of the intermediate language course, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for advanced language and all literature courses in that language. Permission of the department and of the instructor is required to waive this prerequisite. Since students enter the program with varying levels of competence in a language, those who demonstrate an ability beyond the 1st-year level are assigned to intermediate or advanced language courses.
The curriculum for the 4-year B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures is founded on the principle that students will achieve some degree of expertise in more than one language as well as some familiarity with languages other than those of their primary study. Upon graduation, they will have a depth and breadth of language capability. Students are also required to study a second language in some depth. They must take a third language as well. Furthermore, they must include studies from at least two different language families. Not all courses in the program are offered each year.
Unless otherwise indicated:
• all German culture courses are taught in English (students taking German as a 2nd language concentration are required to submit their written work in German);
• all Italian culture courses are taught in English (students majoring in Italian are required to submit their written work in Italian);
• all ITAL literature courses are conducted in Italian;
• all ESPA literature and culture courses are conducted in Spanish with the esxception of ESPA 3226, Film in Spain and/or Latin America
(students majoring in Spanish are required to submit their written work in Spanish).
Programs
For all programs, students must complete 12 credits of the 4000-series of courses in the 1st language. Either the 2nd or 3rd language must be selected from a different language family. The families are Romance (ESPA or ITAL), Germanic (DEUT) and Amerindian (OJIB or CREE). With the permission of the department, students may take classical languages (Greek, Latin or Hebrew) as their 2nd or 3rd language in a single specialization, or as their 3rd language in a double specialization.
Note: Students may include a maximum of 42 credits at the 1000-level in their degree program.
Course descriptions