Modern Languages and Literatures

The Department of Modern Languages and Literature at Goucher College offers a course of study in six language sections: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. The Russian section operates as a cooperative program with the Johns Hopkins University. Each language section offers a minor in the target language. With the exception of Arabic, Italian and German, all offer a major. Students interested in Hebrew should look under Judaic Studies. The Department's mission is twofold: to strengthen the liberal arts undergraduate curriculum at Goucher College by providing language programs of broad scope and high quality; and most importantly, to engage students in the study of compelling transnational issues through the study of texts produced by other cultures. Our faculty is international and interdisciplinary in its research and teaching, offering courses in areas as diverse as film, literature, culture, anthropology, theater, holocaust studies, folklore, sociol-linguistics, ecology.

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