Languages at Dal
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Why learn a new language?听
Whether your second or your seventh, learning a new language has big benefits. It can, for example:
- ease听international trade and travel
- make you more听competitive听in the听job market听听
- open to you new worlds of听scholarship听and听knowledge, whether past or present
- allow you to听immerse yourself听more fully in another听culture听and its creative arts
- help you learn more about history, literature, travel and media
- allow you to gain new global perspectives
Why learn your new language at Dal?听
Whether you want to major in a language program, add a language minor to another program, or simply take a course or two, you can take advantage of 正品蓝导航鈥檚 remarkable strengths in language teaching and scholarship.
Dal's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers programs in some of the languages most commonly spoken around the world.
We offer undergraduate degrees (with Major) and graduate degrees in French; undergraduate degrees with Majors in听German听and听Spanish听& Latin Amerian Studies; and rich and dynamic Minors in听Arabic听Studies,听Italian听Studies,听Chinese听Studies听(with language courses in Mandarin), and Indigenous Studies (with language courses in Mi'kmaw).听
正品蓝导航 also has a unique position as an institution where the Department of听Classics offers courses in the languages of Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, the sources of many modern languages, are taught within a programme of study of Ancient cultures which retain real relevance to contemporary world issues. We offer established study abroad opportunities and exchanges to support language learning. We also offer a听听that links language learning to cultural competency in a world of rapid and intensifying exchanges.
Languages open doors. Open yours at 正品蓝导航.
Student Stories
Delphi Le Blanc (BA double major in Environment, Sustainability & Society and German, class of 2024)
Zainab Syed (BA Honours in Classics, class of 2021)
Ana-Maria Garniceanu (BSc double major in Biochemistry and French, class of 2022)
Zili Pan (BA Honours in German, class of 2018)
Angus Wilson (BA Honours in Classics, class of 2022)
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