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The following areas are administered by this department: Arabic, Asian Studies, Chinese, Classics, English Language Program, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Linguistics, Literature in Translation, Modern Greek, Russian, Swahili and World Literature. Each language or area is listed alphabetically.

Comparative Literature (CLL)

Professor Leonard, Chairperson
Professor Donahue, Adviser
Professors D’Acierno, Donahue, Leonard, Mihailovic; Associate
Professors Lekatsas, Welch, Zhou; Assistant Professors I. Marchesi 

NOTE: comparative literature courses on the 100-level are open to juniors and seniors. All are given in English.

Arabic (ARAB)

Asian Studies (ASST)

Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, P. Welch, Director of Asian Studies.

Chinese (CHIN)

Associate Professor Zhou, Adviser

Classics

Assistant Professor Marchesi, Adviser

English Language Program (ELP)

Dr. Greaney, Director

The English Language Program is designed for students whose native language is not English. Its purpose is to bring non-English speaking students to college-level proficiency in speaking, reading and writing English. It is an accelerated program providing intensive study on a full-time basis. Students who are accepted into a degree-granting program may earn up to 12 semester hours of liberal arts credit. The Bachelor of Arts foreign language requirement may be fulfilled by completing those intermediate (Level II: ELP 25) and advanced (Level III: ELP 31, 35, 36) courses in the program which are designated for degree credit.

Students will be accepted into degree-granting programs upon the successful completion of the following requirements:

1. ELP courses as required, based upon the Hofstra ELP Placement Examination and the student’s progress;
2. a TOEFL score of 500;
3. completion of at least four University courses including ENGL 1 and any one course from the social sciences.
   

Students not admitted to a degree program are not eligible to take courses other than the English Language Program courses.

For further information, contact the Admissions Office, Admissions Center, or the Director of the English Language Program.

Level I, Introductory Intensive English: an accelerated program
providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Level I consists of two components: 1) Reading and Writing; 2) Conversation and Language Laboratory. Each component is based on a grammatical syllabus.  No degree credit. This level includes the following courses: ELP 11A, 12A, 13A, 14A, 15A, 16A, 17A.

Level II, Intermediate Intensive English: an intermediate level program providing intensive instruction and practice in reading, writing and speaking English for students whose native language is not English. Prerequisites: completion of ELP Level I and/or the appropriate satisfactory score on the Hofstra ELPPlacement Examination. This level includes the following courses: ELP 21B, 22B, 23B, 24B, 25.

Level III, Advanced Intensive English: an intensive program providing instruction and practice in written and spoken English for students whose native language is not English. Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of Level II and/or the appropriate scores on the Hofstra ELP Placement Examination. This level includes the following courses: ELP 31, 32C, 33C, 34C, 35, 36.

German (GERM)

Professor Donahue, Adviser

Greek (GRK)

Hebrew, Modern (HEBR)

Assistant Professor Rovner, Adviser

Japanese (JPAN)

Associate Professor Welch, Adviser

Latin (LAT)

Assistant Professor Marchesi, Adviser

Linguistics (LING)

Literature in Translation (LIT)

Literature in Translation courses are given in English. Literature in Translation courses are available under the prefix LIT, as well as in French (FRLT), Italian (ITLT),  and Spanish (SPLT). See alphabetical listings of courses.

Modern Greek (MGRK)

Russian (RUS)

Professor Mihailovic, Adviser

Russian literature in translation courses can be found under the prefix LIT.

Swahili (SWAH) 

Professor Leonard, Adviser

Swahili is a major lingua franca in Africa with millions of speakers throughout the eastern part of the continent. A Bantu language of the Niger-Kordofanian family, Swahili has a typical, complex Bantu structure. It utilizes, for example, some 13 noun classes, the equivalent of a Romance language having 13 genders.

The Swahili course sequence introduces the student to the basics of speaking, understanding, reading, writing, and conversing. An important part of the course is the culture of the Swahili people and of other speakers of the language. Readings on culture are supplemented with guest lecturers. Language lab is required.

World Literature

Professor Donahue, Adviser

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