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• University Center for the Humanities

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About Us

Part-time Instructional Opportunities

The Department of World Languages and Literatures teaches:

• undergraduate language
• literature
• culture
• linguistics
• pedagogy

Major/minor programs:

• French
• German
• Japanese, beginning Fall 2012
• Latin

Minors:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Russian

Beginning and intermediate classes offered in:

• Italian

Education degrees:

• French
• German
• Latin
• Russian

Interdisciplinary areas and programs (undergraduate and graduate levels):

• the Medieval Institute
• the Soga Japan Center
• Canadian Studies
• Greater China Study Group
• Confucius Institute
• the Greater China Study Group
• Global and International Studies
• Gender and Women's Studies
• World Literature
• Linguistics

Study Abroad Opportunities in World Languages and Literatures:

• Study Abroad Information

Mission

• Pursue excellence in research, scholarship, and creative and teaching endeavors that provide the university and community with an in-depth, authentic experience of world languages, literatures, and cultures;
• Promote students' integration of language knowledge, helping them to develop their analytical competence in one of the human arts and sciences or a professional field;
• Serve as a locus of discipline-based study--literature, culture, linguistics, and translation-- while promoting interdisciplinary studies.