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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...

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  • > 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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World Languages Department Faculty

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