STUDENTS FOR THE
21ST CENTURY

The December 2006 cover of Time Magazine, "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century" highlights America’s urgent need to prepare students who are "…global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages…" Therefore the immediate goals of the Foreign Language department at Marywood are for students to:

• Understand and communicate in another language
• Appreciate and respect other languages and cultures
• Develop a world consciousness which fosters social concern for others

These goals have been the goals of Marywood’s Department of Foreign Language since its inception. The significance of foreign language study in a liberal arts education is reinforced by a six credit foreign language component to Marywood’s undergraduate core curriculum. Marywood stands among a minority of liberal arts institutions that have maintained a foreign language requirement for all undergraduates. Marywood has never wavered in this commitment since its founding in 1915.
LINKS: "How to Build a Student for the 21st Century" - December 2006, Time Magazine