The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics provides instruction in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish languages, with an emphasis throughout on cultural communication. Several courses in linguistics are offered, in addition to English-language courses in Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese, French and Francophone, German, Hispanic, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Turkish film; in Hispanic, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slavic, and Turkish cultures; in ethnopoetics and in Russian and Slavic folklore; and in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Latin American literature in translation.
