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Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Celebrating SLLC Graduates

Watch our students step into the next chapter.

May 21, 2025 Arabic, Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Meet the 2025 SLLC Scholarship Awards Recipients

Five language students are awarded SLLC Scholarships.

May 06, 2025 Arabic, Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Languages Compete in SLLC Mini World Cup 2025

SLLC hosts its third mini world cup for students and faculty.

May 06, 2025 Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

SLLC Celebrates Maryland Day 2025

Maryland Day was filled with cultural events and international performances.

March 26, 2025 Arabic, Chinese, Cinema and Media Studies, French, German Studies, Japanese, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

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.

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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

Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age

November 07, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies, Japanese

Recently published in The Faculty Voice

Italian Film Series Fall 2018

October 24, 2018 Italian

Join the Itailan Program as is shows films celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protests

Chinese Program hosts successful Mid-Autumn Festival

October 16, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese

The Chinese Program recently celebrated its annual Mid-Autumn Festival