Recent Michigan State University College of Arts & Letters graduate Mikayla Thompson, who is a descendant of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is educating others about Indigenous farming practices and culture through the gardens she helped create and now leads at MSU’s W.J. Beal Botanical Garden and the Nokomis Cultural Heritage Center in Okemos, Michigan.
Three College of Arts & Letters students are spending their summer studying a foreign language at an intensive study abroad institute as recipients of Critical Language Scholarships, a national scholarship…
To help alleviate the food insecurity crisis in a northern Tanzania community, Jonathan Choti, Assistant Professor of African Languages and Cultures in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State…
Dr. Jonathan Choti and Dr. Danny Mendez have received the 2022-2023 College of Arts & Letters Engaged Pedagogy and Programming Fund Grant to support their joint project in spring 2023.…
The Chinese Program held its first annual talent show on April 8, 2022 at the MSU International Center, featuring Chinese songs, dances, calligraphy, traditional storytelling, Chinese tongue twisters, poetry reading, and language games led by program faculty.
Dr. Yore Kedem, who leads the Jewish Studies Summer Program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was honored with MSU’s Award for Outstanding Service to Education Abroad.
For many years, TESOL students have offered classes in the EPIC Program in the spring to help adult second-language speakers of English to improve their oral communication skills.
Given recent climate and weather-related events in Germany and the COP 26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November, the German Program selected “Climate Change and Multilateralism” as the special theme for its advanced skill building courses (GRM 420 Advanced German and GRM 311 Business German) in Fall 2021.
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MSU senior Ren McCowan (majoring in Japanese with minors in TESOL and Linguistics) founded The Japanese-English Language Exchange (JELE) in 2020. JELE is recurring casual virtual chat between college students, passionate about practicing Japanese and English, that’s building connections here at MSU and across the globe.
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Michigan State University’s Linguistics program is ranked among the top places in the field for study, research, and employment by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), a leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to the global higher education sector. The Linguistics program offers B.A.,…