Bachelor of Arts- World Languages and Culture

The Bachelor of Arts in World Languages and Cultures (WLC), with separate tracks in French, German, Romance Languages, or Spanish, is a comprehensive liberal arts degree in the language, literature, and culture of the student’s choosing. Students (non-native and native speakers) will develop thorough linguistic proficiency in combination with analytical and critical skills that will allow them to function effectively in multiple interlingual, cross-cultural contexts.

The B.A. in WLC affords students the opportunity to read and study great writers, thinkers and artists in their original language: Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Fellini, Ferrante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus, Beauvoir, Renoir, Godard, Truffaut, Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka, Lang, Dürer, Ernst, Klee, Cervantes, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Darío, Neruda, Allende, Buñuel, Almodóvar, del Toro, Picasso, Kahlo, Velázquez, Rivera, Dalí.  Language majors have the opportunity to take courses in translation, or literary study, or linguistics, or cultures

Majors are given the flexibility to follow their specific interests in this degree that leads to careers in international affairs, academics, law, diplomacy, medicine, science, hospitality, communications, travel, fashion, business, politics, journalism and the arts.

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