The Mission of the Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication
The Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication seeks to provide a broad and critical educational experience that promotes multilingualism and helps students become culturally competent and interact successfully, appropriately, and respectfully with people from different countries and sociocultural backgrounds.
CLIC Fulfills its mission by:
- Providing linguistic and culturally contextualized opportunities for students to use the target language outside the classroom,
- Offering faculty-led study abroad programs in the summer,
- Celebrating the peoples and cultures associated with the languages taught in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures and the Department of Transnational Asian Studies,
- Providing peer mentoring opportunities in the target languages,
- Creating and strengthening partnerships with local and international NGOs, universities, schools, and other entities,
- Keeping language faculty up to date with current theory on pedagogy through internal and external training, and
- Offering teacher training to local language instructors as a way to collaborate with the teaching community.