World Languages and Cultures (BA)

World Languages and Cultures - Bachelor of Arts (BA)

The Bachelor of Arts in World Languages and Cultures, 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, Dürer, Ernst, Klee, Cervantes, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Darío, Neruda, Allende, Buñuel, Almodóvar, del Toro, Picasso, Kahlo, Velázquez, Rivera, Dalí. Don’t 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.

Majors are given the flexibility to follow their specific interests in this degree that leads to careers in international affairs, academics, law, diplomacy, medicine, science, hospitality, communications, travel, fashion, business, politics, journalism and the arts.

Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, World Languages and Cultures web page at https://www.unlv.edu/wlc for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.  Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available at https://www.unlv.edu/degree/ba-world-languages-cultures.

Please see advising information at the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Wilson Advising Center at http://liberalarts.unlv.edu/WAC/.

 Accreditation

Institution - Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities www.nwccu.org.

Learning Outcomes

Communication

• Students will be able to engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
• Students will be able to understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
• Students will be able to present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
• Cultures
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products (artifacts) and perspectives of the cultures studied.
• Connections
• Students will be able to reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
• Students will be able to acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
• Comparisons
• Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
• Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
• Communities
• Students will be able to use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
• Students will be able to show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

University Graduation Requirements

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