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Four Arabic Flagship Students Win Prestigious 2024–25 ARHU Boren Scholarships

The students will embark on two semesters of immersive language study in Meknes, Morocco.

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Persian Flagship Program Renewed for 2024–28

The University of Maryland offers the only Persian Flagship Program in the United States.

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Congratulations to the 2024 SLLC Graduates!

Watch online as our graduates turn the tassel.

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“Life-changing” study abroad pilgrimage in Spain opens students to new perspectives, cultures.

Students walk 78 miles of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela over spring break.

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Summer Session 2024

Gain ground and earn UMD credits through convenient 3 and 6-week summer sessions.

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Welcome to the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The School is a transdisciplinary teaching and research unit. Our students, faculty, and staff investigate and engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of speakers of ArabicChinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, JapaneseKorean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as questions surrounding Second Language Acquisition and Cinema and Media Studies.

We invite you to learn more about our undergraduate and graduate degrees, our fields of study, and special programs like the Language House Living and Learning Program, the Language Partner Program, the Persian Flagship Program, Project GO, and the Summer Language Institutes.

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The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers numerous undergraduate and graduate degrees in 12 languages and 16 different fields.


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The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers three graduate programs providing training for careers in academia, the government, secondary education and the private sector.


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To Catch a Glimpse from Afar: MENA Scholars in US International Conferences

The article, which offers practical solutions to a pressing issue, explores the challenges faced by scholars and artists from the Middle East and North Africa when participating in academic conferences in the United States.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

Author/Lead: Marjan Moosavi
Dates:

As a dauntless practitioner of exulansis, Marjan Moosavi writes this Note from the Field in an attempt to unlearn my practice of keeping silent about the challenges of moving across borders. It is based on a survey she did about the challenges and issues (e.g., securing visas and funds) that Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) scholars/researchers sadly encounter when they decide to participate in US conferences. While offering specific action items to the ATHE organizing committee, she reminds her fellow MENA colleagues who have experienced disconnect that their sadness should prompt a vivid upsurge of collective attention to the countless possibilities we organizers and participants still have for cosmopolitan friendship while taking joy and grief all in, at once, from afar.

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Digital Collection "The Missing Link"

The primary goal of this project is to bring to light 16th-century colonial events that happened in the Eastern United States and shaped the history of both the US and Spain.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: Carmen Benito-Vessels
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): This StoryMaps Collection was supported by the GIS and Data Service Center at University of Maryland Libraries.
Dates:

An interactive guide to accompany Carmen Benito-Vessels’ research about early modern Spain and the early modern United States.

Interview posted in Big10 Geoportal "Finding “The Missing Link”: An Interview with Carmen Benito-Vessels".

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Utilizing ASReview in screening primary studies for meta-research in SLA: A step-by-step tutorial

SLA students and faculty introduce an AI-powered research tools for meta-research

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Author/Lead: Bronson Hui, Yazhuo Quan, Tetiana Tytko
Dates:

Congratulations to SLA students and faculty, Yazhuo Quan, Tetiana Tytko, and Bronson Hui, on publishing a methodological paper in Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. In this article, the authors introduce an AI application for researchers engaging in meta-research (research on research) in the field. The article is open access and available here (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100101). Part of the training received by the students was sponsored by the Faculty-Student Research Grant from the Graduate School awarded to Bronson Hui.

Quan, Y., Tytko, T., & Hui, B. (2024). Utilizing ASReview in screening primary studise for meta-research in SLA: A step-by-step tutorial. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(1), 100101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100101

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Land Acknowledgement

Every community owes its existence and strength to the generations before them, around the world, who contributed their hopes, dreams, and energy into making the history that led to this moment.

Truth and acknowledgement are critical in building mutual respect and connections across all barriers of heritage and difference.

So, we acknowledge the truth that is often buried: We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who are the ancestral stewards of this sacred land. It is their historical responsibility to advocate for the four-legged, the winged, those that crawl and those that swim. They remind us that clean air and pristine waterways are essential to all life.

This Land Acknowledgement is a vocal reminder for each of us as two-leggeds to ensure our physical environment is in better condition than what we inherited, for the health and prosperity of future generations.

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