{"id":16709,"date":"2022-08-11T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?page_id=16709"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:41:34","slug":"why-world-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/why-world-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study World Languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-8585\" class=\"content-area post-8585 page type-page status-publish hentry\"><span>WLL\u2019s language programs\u00a0instill the values of full-fledged global citizenship\u00a0and the\u00a0deep cultural understanding that\u00a0comes\u00a0only with progress towards mastery of another languages.\u00a0<\/span><span>Using up-to-date technology, our faculty help students develop the ability to understand, speak, write, and read the target language from the beginning. In small, dynamic classes, students explore other cultures and literatures and gain new insights into their own language and culture.\u00a0<\/span><span>Students in WLL can take courses\u00a0in ten living languages and two ancient ones.<\/span><\/article>\n<article class=\"content-area post-8585 page type-page status-publish hentry\"><strong>East Asian Languages &amp; Literatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/chinese\/?csspreview=true\">Chinese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/japanese\/?csspreview=true\">Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/korean\/?csspreview=true\">Korean<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Middle Eastern &amp; South Asian Languages &amp; Literatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/arabic\/?csspreview=true\">Arabic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/hebrew\/?csspreview=true\">Hebrew<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/hindi-urdu\/\">Hindi-Urdu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/persian-farsi\/?csspreview=true\">Persian (Farsi)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/turkish\/?csspreview=true\">Turkish<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>European Languages &amp; Literatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/german\/?csspreview=true\">German <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/undergraduate\/languages\/russian\/?csspreview=true\">Russian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other languages at BU:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/forstudents\/alp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African Studies Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classical Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romance Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info about World Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19670,"featured_media":16719,"parent":0,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16709"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16709\/revisions\/18120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}