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Welcome to the School of Languages and Cultures

School Highlights

Congratulations to Prof. Antonia Syson! She was named Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Classical Conference. She will receive her award during the IFLTA Conference in October.

Mariko Wei - Murphy Award

Prof. Mariko Wei wins coveted Murphy Award!!!!

Professor Paul Dixon Tribute to Prof. Paul B. Dixon

2013 Award Winners
     Faculty
     Graduate
     Undergraduate

10 Most Creative Foreign Language Department Websites

Coffee and Tea Hours

Summer 2013 Study Abroad Madrid

Language Placement Testing

School Newsletter

Graduation Ceremony - Aprendiendo a leer program - Wednesday, May 8th at 11:15am in SC 239.
This is a service-learning program sponsored by the CLA Office of Engagement and the School of Languages and Cultures focused on the teaching and maintenance of Spanish as a minority language to young children (K to 4th grade). Purdue undergraduate students have taught Spanish language and culture to 55 children of Hispanic background in our community, in partnership with Wea Ridge Elementary School (Lafayette) and Suncrest Elementary School (Frankfort). It's time now to celebrate their achievement! (flyers in English and Spanish)

Please check the Film Events page for current and upcoming film events in SLC!

The School of Languages and Cultures (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures) offers basic courses in all of the languages you see on the left. Classics includes both Latin and Ancient Greek. For Hebrew, students may choose either Biblical or Modern Hebrew. In Chinese and Spanish, the department offers some special courses for heritage speakers.

Undergraduate majors are currently available in Classics, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. These programs also offer minors. Additionally, the department has minors in Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese. Minors and "double majors" in a foreign language are especially popular with undergraduates at Purdue.

The School of Languages and Cultures offers Doctoral programs in French, German, and Spanish literature and linguistics, as well as Second Language Acquisition. Faculty members in the School of Languages and Cultures enjoy a reputation for excellence in research. The department sponsors a monograph series in romance literatures, and is the source of three scholarly journals. For more information, see the Publications page.