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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at CSUB equips students to engage and thrive in our interconnected global society. Mastering cultural awareness and foreign language abilities provides graduates with unique benefits, especially as social diversity across cultures, ethnicities, and languages continues to grow rapidly.
The department aims to cultivate deeper linguistic, literary, and cultural insights about worldwide communities, provide career-relevant competencies, and train future language educators with essential teaching skills. These objectives are achieved by sparking curiosity about different cultures, promoting cross-cultural comprehension, and enhancing students' core language competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing across all offered languages.