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...

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.

World Languages Department Faculty