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118 College Drive, Box #5038
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Phone: 601.266.4964
Fax: 601.266.4853
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Spring 2013
| Course | Time | Place | Professor |
| FL 664 Second Language Acquisition Theory and Practice | CHAT 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday (alternating dates with SPA 637) | ONLINE | Abreu |
| FL 694 Practicum in Second or Foreign Language | NO CHAT | ONLINE | Burnett |
| TSL 612 Options in the Teaching of Grammar | CHAT 6:30-7:30pm Monday | ONLINE | Miles |
| SPA 637 Topics in Culture: History of the Spanish Language | CHAT 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday (alternating dates with FL 664) | ONLINE | Abreu |
| FL 691 Research (hours for full-time enrollment) | TBA | ONLINE | Burnett |
| FRE 536 Francophone Civilization: A Focus on Africa | 3:30-6:15pm Tuesday | Hattiesburg | Burnett |
| SPA 505 Spanish Phonetics | 3:30-6:15pm Monday | Hattiesburg | Guglani |
| SPA 591 Advanced Studies in the Spanish Language: The Culture of Food | 3:30-6:15pm Wednesday | Hattiesburg | Miles |
| FL 665 Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Perspectives in Language | 3:55-6:25pm Thursday | Hattiesburg | Powell |
| FL 690 Teaching Seminar (for TAs only) | TBA | Hattiesburg | Burnett |
Continuing MATL students who are not enrolled in courses at the University of Southern Mississippi during the current semester need to file a reapplication form available online with the Graduate School. If you are not registered in a given semester but wish to register for the following semester, you need to send the Application for Readmission to the Graduate School prior to registration.
Departmental News
Dr. Laura Guglani presented “The role of religion in Spanish language maintenance in a Hispanic church” at the ALDEEU-Spanish Professionals in America Conference in St. Augustine, Florida, in April and “‘Somos la Iglesia Hispana’: Spanish language maintenance and religion in a Hispanic church” at the 24th Conference on Spanish in the United States in conjunction with the Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages: Language Contact, Conflict, and Confluence at the Edge of the Nation in McAllen, Texas, in March.
Dr. Chris Miles presented "El lenguaje de la comida como cultura en la clase de español", at the ALDEEU-Spanish Professionals in America Conference in St. Augustine, Florida, in April.
Dr. Laurel Abreu presented "Applied linguistics and the foreign language teacher" at the Southern Conference on Language Teaching in Birmingham, Alabama, in April.
Dr. William Odom's latest book is his translation Bombing Hitler: The Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer, a biography of Georg Elser. It is now available in a Kindle edition and as an audiobook.
Congratulations to Gilman Scholarship winners Kiara Breland, William Crosby, Norma Forrest, Laken Kendrick, and Bridgette Issacs (Spain); LaVanda Walker (Costa Rica); and Jonathan Sandig (Belgium).
Congratulations to Outstanding Language Students 2013: Katherine Perry, Danielle Adams, Lauren Stealey, and Breanne Saliba.
The department welcomes back graduate teaching assistant Kristen Carter from her semester as an assistant in Granada, Spain. Kathy Kaufmann is working as a graduate teaching assistant on the Abbey Program in Pontlevoy, France.
The Department welcomes new faculty members Dr. Laura Guglani (Spanish and TESOL), Luisa Garrido Báez (Spanish and Italian), and visiting faculty Miles Doleac (Classics) and Jennifer Weir (French).
Courses in Russian, Chinese, and Italian are currently being offered on the Hattiesburg Campus. French is being offered for the first time on the Gulf Coast Campus.
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