• Global literacy is the ability to participate in sociocultural practices by both interacting with others in different languages and by creating, presenting, and interpreting ideas through oral and written texts in more than one language. Consequently, global literacy involves awareness about oral and written texts, their conventions and genres, and their social, historical, political, and artistic uses. It entails linguistic proficiency in more than one language.
  • Global Literacy and multilingualism foster success in business, economics, education, law, medicine, natural sciences, politics, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Language study most effectively enriches academic as well as personal experiences when students choose a language based on its relevance to possible careers, to research in particular fields, to personal heritage, or to the understanding of unfamiliar cultures. Students combine advanced modern language study with Bachelors in other fields, such as International Studies, Communications, History, Political Science (and other pre-law fields), Biology (and other pre-med fields), Nursing, English, Finance, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, Computer Science, Sociology, and Philosophy.
  • The major is designed to allow students to gain advanced linguistic, cultural, and literary competence in the communities that speak this language.  Students learn with each course to understand, interpret, and analyze  communication patterns and cultural products (new technologies, film, literature, etc.) from the geopolitical positions of the linguistic communities they study.  This learning process also fosters a greater appreciation of the students’ own language, culture, and society.