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, Drer, Ernst, Klee, Cervantes, Juana In's de la Cruz, Daro, Neruda, Allende, Buuel, Almodvar, del Toro, Picasso, Kahlo, Velzquez, Rivera, Dal. Dont settle for someone else's translations, give yourself the skills and tools to practice translation yourself. All of our language majors have the opportunity to take courses in translation, or literary study, or linguistics, or cultures