World Languages

World Languages Department Mission Statement

Our mission, as Ignatian educators, is to provide our students with a new lens through which they will be able to experience and appreciate the diverse languages and cultures of the world — past and present. By graduation, we seek to impart the following enduring understandings to our students so that they will be...

List of 5 items.

> Open to Growth
- Understand the distinctive viewpoints that can only be experienced through world languages and their cultures.
- Accept the challenge of acquiring another language.
- Appreciate the connection between other languages and the English language.
- Understand that language mastery is a life-long objective.
- Experience and understand the enjoyment of learning language.
> Intellectually Competent
- Have a more thorough understanding of the function of grammar and vocabulary in language.
- Acquire the ability to accurately translate from one language to another.
- Appreciate the history, mythology and literature of classical and modern cultures.
- Will acquire the organization and discipline necessary for learning another language.
- Understand the role of technology in language acquisition.
> Religious
- Understand that we can praise and worship God in other languages.
- Understand the influence of Latin and Spanish on the development of the Catholic Church.
> Loving
- Understand that learning other languages connects one to the world community.
- Value the richness of other cultures of the world.
- Respect the dignity of the world’s people.
> Committed to Doing Justice
- Recognize his responsibility as a member of the world community.
- Experience the role of the foreigner.
- Accept that one’s language is not the right way but simply another way to experience the world.
- Realize the empowerment that language acquisition provides in future vocation and living the Gospel.