Overview
The Department of World Languages and Cultures provides students with a solid liberal arts education that becomes the foundation for personal and professional growth over a lifetime. Our supportive and engaged faculty help students chart their own unique paths through a flexible curriculum rich in linguistic, cultural, literary, and professional experiences. Students develop linguistic and intercultural skills that will enable them to succeed in positions that demand the ability to communicate effectively, reason critically, solve problems creatively, and work on culturally diverse teams.
We offer beginning through intermediate coursework in Spanish, French, German, and Italian and advanced coursework in Spanish and French. Our wide-variety of innovative, interactive courses explore literature, film, visual art, music, translation, and social, political, historical, and environmental questions, all through an interdisciplinary and global cultural lens. Students craft a set of curricular and co-curricular experiences that broaden their horizons, stretch their sense of self and other, and allow them to understand the world through more than one linguistic framework and through a variety of cultural perspectives.
Students have opportunities to apply their skills outside of the classroom, through study abroad, online conversation exchanges with native speakers, service-learning opportunities in Milledgeville and beyond, faculty-mentored research, participation in the French and Spanish clubs and honor societies, conversation tables, campus and community outreach programs, and peer tutoring.
Our faculty develop close working relationships with their students, creating fun, vibrant, and welcoming classroom environments in which students feel comfortable taking risks, making mistakes, and pushing themselves to grow as speakers and to deepen their understanding of other cultures. Students find in our department a supportive academic home base from which to forge connections across disciplines, cultures, generations, and worldviews.