Bachelor of Arts - World Languages and Cultures (OWW)

The Major in World Languages and Cultures will allow students to acquire competency in one or more international languages and to gain a wide range of knowledge about cultures and intercultural realities. Besides focusing on one or several linguistic and cultural areas, students will develop fundamental research and communication skills that are essential to today’s workplace and wider world. These are introduced and reinforced in courses at all levels, concluding with a capstone research seminar.

The Major’s experiential learning component will allow students to integrate diverse opportunities to study and work abroad as well as volunteering experiences with embassies, international cultural institutes (e.g. Cervantes Institute, Goethe Institute, Dante Alighieri Society), and community organizations in the National Capital Region.

The Major is a perfect fit with the University of Ottawa’s uoGlobal Recognition and with the Faculty of Art’s Option in Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Social Innovation. It will also prepare students for graduate studies in language and culture, e.g. in the Department’s MA programs in Spanish and in World Literatures and Cultures.

The languages taught in the Department include Arabic, Breton, Chinese, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Welsh, and Yiddish.