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Foreign Languages and Literatures Hello 你好 ﺍﻟﺳﻼﻡ ﻋﻠﻳﻛﻡ Hola Bonjour Imaynallan Ciao こんにちは Guten Tag Why study a foreign language? • Language study is more important than ever before in the United States. • Knowledge of foreign languages is now a fundamental and indispensable part of every student’s education and allows them to: – Play a meaningful role in world discourse – Protect our national security – Compete with our international counterparts in every field of study imaginable. • With language study, students can communicate and interact with large populations of speakers coming from different cultural and ideological backgrounds. Foreign Languages and Literatures 2 Government Public Service Diplomacy Foreign service Immigration/naturalization Intelligence Law enforcement Travel and Tourism Airline services Travel services Travel guidance Booking/reservations Management Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rowan University Arts, Media Entertainment Advertising Journalism Broadcasting Publishing/editing Public relations Interpretation and Translation Industry and Commerce Sales/Marketing Banking/finance Customer services Imports/Exports Consulting Simultaneous interpretation Consecutive interpretation Court interpretation Medical interpretation Literary translation Service and Education Teaching Linguistics Library science Social work Health services What can I do with a foreign language? • There are many potential career paths and opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign languages • Interpretation and translation • Health care – Speech-language pathology and the study and treatment of dyslexia and aphasia • Business and advertising – Marketing to non-English speakers • Education – Language teaching, teaching English to speakers of other languages, training teachers, and designing assessments Foreign Languages and Literatures 4 What can I do with a foreign language? • There are many potential career paths and opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign languages • Communications • Publishing • Acting or training actors – As while learning the pronunciation and intonation of different languages and dialects • Computer science – Including applications to speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, artificial intelligence and robotics Foreign Languages and Literatures 5 What can I do with a foreign language? • There are many potential career paths and opportunities for students with knowledge of foreign languages • Journalism • Law – Such as studying the language of legal texts, linguistic aspects of evidence and issues of voice identification • Public relations • Government – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) Foreign Languages and Literatures 6 Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rowan University Spanish MLL Spanish Spanish Italian German Chinese French Japanese German Studies Modern Languages and Linguistics French RL Romance Languages (Spanish, French, Italian) Take your language skills to new heights. What are linguistics and communication? • Linguistics is the scientific study of language. • Communication is the production and interpretation of messages. Foreign Languages and Literatures 9 What are topics of linguistics and communication? • Linguistics and communication studies examine such topics as – The relationships among the languages, thoughts, and cultures of speech communities living all over the world – Structures of human language, for example, phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), and semantics (the structure of meaning) – Language universals, characteristics which all human languages share Foreign Languages and Literatures 10 What are topics of linguistics and communication? • Linguistics and communication studies examine such topics as – Bilingualism – The ways in which race, class, gender, and other social characteristics may be displayed through the use of language – Dialect formation – Nonverbal communication, including messages of and about the human body; approach-avoidance signals of space, gaze, and touch; facial expressions; and the overlapping channels of voice and gesture – The process of human language acquisition Foreign Languages and Literatures 11 Questions? Contact Dr. Marilyn S. Manley, Chair Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Bunce Hall 312 [email protected] (856) 256-4500 x3466 Foreign Languages and Literatures 12