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.

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