Languages Across the Curriculum

The Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) program offers students the opportunity to use world languages in a variety of courses outside the language and literature curricula.

The program aims to promote a better understanding of world regions while demonstrating the relevance of practical language skills across the disciplines.

Successful completion of a LAC course option will improve students’ ability to:

1. Communicate in the target language about course topics;
2. Describe how course topics relate to world regions that speak the target language;
3. Explain course topics from the perspective(s) of individuals who use the target language;
4. Use the target language to conduct course research.

The LAC program offers course options in a variety of languages, disciplines, and course formats. Currently, LAC courses are offered in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi-Urdu, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. Students who enroll in LAC recitation or discussion sections can receive one graded hour of world language credit. Some three-hour seminars in the target language are also available. 

There are several types of LAC courses. For course offerings (by semester) and additional information, visit the program's website.