Undergraduate
Roberto Brodsky Joins MLL this Fall
Award-winning novelist, Latin American Literature Today editor-at-large, and screenwriter Roberto Brodsky, Ph.D., will be joining the Modern Languages and Literatures Department this fall, teaching Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Welcome!
Interested in Professor Brodsky's class? E-mail the department.
Language Study in the Age of Globalization
This brochure by the Modern Language Association is directed primarily to college students. It explains how knowing other languages enriches students' personal lives, expands their range of professional opportunities, and increases their power to act as citizens of the world.
Communicate with your neighbors in their native tongue, whether they're next door or on the other side of the world.
Knowing another language is one of the most valuable skills you will ever possess, and learning it at Brooklyn College—located in one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in the world—will be one of the wisest decisions you ever make. You can major in French, Italian, Russian or Spanish; pick up a minor in any of those languages as well as Chinese or German; and dabble in Arabic, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese. With fluency in another language—and the cultural connections that are inextricably linked to it—you will not only travel the world with more confidence, you'll also become a very desirable candidate for careers in almost any position imaginable, from education to law, international relations to business, and government to the arts, to name just a few.
