About Us
We're critical thinkers and doers who share a common goal of expanding worldviews, language skills, cultural competence and empathy.
Academic Offerings
In World Languages and Cultures, your education isn’t confined to a classroom. It spans every corner of the globe. We offer courses in Arabic, Chinese, FL English, French, German, Greek, Korean, Latin, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. We also provide specialized offerings ranging from business Spanish to world literature to Hindi.
We’re home to six major concentrations, more than 10 minors, and an M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures with tracks in French, Spanish and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
Undergraduate Programs
Majors
- Arabic Studies
- Asian Studies
- Chinese (Nathaniel Issacson, nkisaacs@ncsu.edu)
- Hindi-Urdu (Sujata Mody, ssmody@ncsu.edu)
- Japanese)
- World Language Education
- French
- German
- Spanish
Minors
- Chinese Studies (Audrey Emerson, zchen21@ncsu.edu)
- Classical Studies
- French
- German
- Hindi-Urdu
- Italian Studies
- Japan Studies
- Japanese
- Portuguese Studies
- Russian Studies
- Spanish
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- World Cultural Literacy
Graduate Programs
- M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Faculty Expertise
They’re thought leaders, innovators, and professors. Our faculty members are as renowned for their ability to build relationships with students as they are for their prestigious fellowships and research.
Our researchers help us understand how people around the world interact, migrate and express themselves. They create new knowledge to inform not only their scholarly fields, but their communities near and far.