About the Department of Foreign Languages
Enduring Understandings
- As the world moves towards a global community, it is increasingly important to be able to communicate in languages other than English.
- It is important to understand the perspectives of a culture that generate its patterns of behavior, ways of life, worldviews, and contributions.
- Proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- The study of a foreign language enables students to develop insights into the nature of language and culture.
- Learning a foreign language enables an individual to participate in multilingual communities.
Updated October 9, 2006 | Maintained by Paula Peró
