Major in World Languages and Cultures

The Major in World Languages and Cultures will allow you to acquire competency in one or more international languages and to gain a wide range of knowledge about cultures and intercultural realities. Besides focusing on one or several linguistic and cultural areas, you will develop fundamental research and communication skills that are essential to todays workplace and wider world. These are introduced and reinforced in courses at all levels, concluding with a capstone research seminar.

Gain important academic and professional experience by collaborating with the Departments various research groups or participating in the research of faculty members through the prestigious Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). The Majors experiential learning component will allow you to integrate diverse opportunities to study and work abroad as well as volunteering experiences with embassies, international cultural institutes (e.g. Cervantes Institute, Goethe Institute, Dante Alighieri Society), and community organizations in the National Capital Region.

The Major is a perfect fit with the University of Ottawas uoGlobal Recognition and with the Faculty of Arts Option in Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Social Innovation. It will also prepare you for graduate studies in language and culture, e.g. in the Departments MA programs in Spanish and in World Literatures and Cultures.

The languages taught in the Department include Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Welsh, and Yiddish.

This program is offered in English and in French.

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