MCL Capstone Research Project and Language Learning Portfolio, MCL 495, is a common Capstone experience shared by MCL majors in Arabic, Classics, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Russian. It is designed to provide an opportunity for majors to develop research projects in collaboration with faculty members and to gain research experience in MCL Studies, as well as to allow majors to explore the various content areas and scholarly approaches represented in MCL so as to enhance their understanding of the value of work across disciplines.

Intercultural communication is increasingly an integral part of everyday professional life. This course responds to this emerging social reality by aiming to help professionals develop knowledge and skills to observe, interact with, speak and listen to, interpret, analyze, read, and write about people with different cultural backgrounds. To this end, the course requires each student to conduct a mini-ethnographic project in the context of her/his everyday professional life.

This course will offer students a survey of the primary concepts and phenomena that relate to the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) where second has reference to languages acquired after the first, or native, language. This course will provide a cursory look at a number of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic issues at the heart of second language learning, as well as an overview of the complex processes and mechanisms that drive that learning.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

In this course students engage in directed research designed to broaden and deepen their expertise in a specific research area, and to extend and refine their investigative and research skills. The research work may be performed alone or as a part of a team, and the research focus may include (but is not limited to): an independent topic/project in the students' area(s) of study; a topic/project closely connected with an upper-level seminar in which the students are currently enrolled; or a topic/project within the research agenda of the faculty member offering the course.

In this course students engage in an internship under the supervision of a faculty member. The course is intended to help students apply, reinforce, and extend what they have learned in the classroom for their professional development. The production of a portfolio, project, or other form of summative work will allow the students to reflect on the semester's work in a focused synthesis. 10 hours of internship per week (150 hours in a semester) are generally equated with 3 credit hours. Course may be repeated up to 12 credit hours.

This course is focused on current approaches, strategies, and techniques in second language teaching, with a particular emphasis on intermediate and advanced language learners and adolescent or adult students. It is also a practicum course, so all students must have access to a second language classroom and learners in order to engage course concepts in actual classroom setting.

Seminar on teaching intercultural topics from the perspective of world languages and cultures. The course will provide based in depth analysis of one area of intercultural teaching. Topics may include how to teach arts and humanities courses and/or units using folk and fairy tale traditions, multicultural and world cinema, comparative art and architecture, or musical and theatrical traditions. Focus will be on methods of teaching in primary and secondary schools. Taught in English. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.