About CAS General Education Requirements How to apply Program Overview Courses Policies Request application info UMass Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. The Department of Modern Languages offers strong and varied programs in French, German, Italian, and Russian language, culture, and literature, taught by a faculty with considerable international experience. The department also offers smaller, but expanding, programs in Chinese language and literature and in Japanese language, literature and culture. Course offerings are designed to serve the educational needs of students who want to acquire a knowledge of foreign languages from the elementary to the advanced level, and who wish to explore the richness of literary and cultural traditions outside the United States. The main objective of the department's academic programs is to provide students with practical and intellectually challenging undergraduate study that will enable them to make effective use of a foreign language in pursuit of their professional and personal goals.
Students can major or minor in any of the department's four languages.
Our course offerings also enable students majoring in other disciplines to develop knowledge of a second language and an awareness of cultural diversity.