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Unlock New Skills This Summer: Explore our 2025 Course Offerings

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

February 14, 2025 Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Love Speaks Every Language

These SLLC students met their spouses while studying language.

February 11, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Foreign language studies are overlooked. A mandate would change that.

After spending a summer immersed in Jaipur, India, one University of Maryland student argues that language learning isn’t just a personal skill—it’s a global necessity.

January 15, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review chooses the year’s top fiction and nonfiction, including Álvaro Enrigue's "You Dreamed of Empires".

October 29, 2024 Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Exploring French Art and Film: Brendan Berger’s ‘Life-Changing’ Year Abroad

The senior French and film student took in art at renowned museums and attended the Cannes Film Festival.

October 14, 2024 English, History, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024-2025 Maya Brin Resident Maxim Osipov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is thrilled to announce the visit of Maxim Osipov.

October 10, 2024 Communication, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

2024 Mark and Heather Rosenker Lecture featuring Joe Mazza

Joe Mazza presents "Enduring Words" for the 2024 Rosenker Lecture

September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

Ana Patricia Rodríguez and two of her students highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary

June 12, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Persian

PERS 251 / HIST219: Student research reflects study in Iranian modernity

A digital exhibit of student work created for PERS251 / HIST219

June 07, 2024 Arabic

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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Germanic Studies Participating in the Green Office Program

May 14, 2019 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies

Germanic Studies is pursuing bronze level certification through the Office of Sustainability

2019-20 ARHU Boren Recipients

May 13, 2019 Arabic, French, Honors Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The scholarships provide up to 20k for two semesters of critical language study.

2019-20 ARHU Fulbright Finalists

May 13, 2019 Arabic, French, German Studies, Honors Humanities, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

The fellowships fund an array of global student exchanges.

Germanic Studies Awardees, Spring 2019

April 30, 2019 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies

Congratulations to our German Majors!

UMD Social Justice Day 2019 Awards

April 10, 2019 Art, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture , School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Inaugural awards recognize campus social justice initiatives.

Chinese Program Scholarship Announcements

March 07, 2019 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese

4 students have received scholarships for the summer.

2019 Chinese Lantern Festival

February 18, 2019 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese

Singing, Dancing, Dumplings

Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres

December 03, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French

Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt

Paris and the Marginalized Author

November 26, 2018 French

Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile

The Art of the Forbidden City in WWII

November 12, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese, Center for East Asian Studies

How China's vast art collection was kept safe and hidden from Japanese Invasion