Languages and Cultures

We live in a multilingual, multicultural world

Drawing on a long Jesuit tradition of scholarship on and respect for the world's diverse languages and cultures, we offer a wide range of courses and degree programs aimed at developing your linguistic proficiency and cultural competence

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The Department of Languages and Cultures at Fordham

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We offer a wide range of courses in Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Spanish, and providing you with solid foundations in Linguistics.

We are a faculty of 19 tenured and tenure-track, 28 full-time non-tenure-track, and 24 part-time non-tenure-track members who specialize in and teach courses in French, German, Italian, and Spanish medieval, early modern, modern, and postmodern literatures and cultures; Latin American and Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures; and contemporary Latinx writing and film. Learn more about our faculty.

Through its majors and minors in language and cultural studies, the department promotes the interdisciplinary study of language by encouraging students to take courses in related fields. Our course offerings and programs also provide students with the opportunity to connect with New York City through community-engaged learning courses.

The Department of Languages and Cultures prepares students for graduate and professional work and for study abroad. Its study abroad programs, tutoring services, lectures, film series, and cultural events, all seek to immerse students in the languages and cultures they study, foster their participation in international networks and events, and engage them in a dialogue across languages and cultures.

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