UMD School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Humanities is a transdisciplinary teaching and research unit at the University of Maryland. Our students, faculty, and staff investigate and engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as Cinema and Media Studies and Global Culture and Thought.

The School offers three Ph.D. programs (Spanish, French and Second Language Acquisition), four M.A. programs and an advanced graduate certificate in Second Language Acquisition. Our students pursue successful careers in academia, the government, secondary education and the private sector.