Office of the Dean

Priorities: Strategic Plan, 2008

School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs

  • Priority # 1A: 
  • Enhance faculty incentive and research grant programs.

  • Priority # 1B: 
  • Increase the number of roster faculty within the School.

  • Priority # 1C: 
  • Implement external proficiency testing for language majors.

  • Priority # 1D: 
  • Make Latin American Caribbean Studies a stand alone major.

  • Priority # 1E: 
  • Establish an Asian Studies major.

  • Priority # 1F: 
  • Require one semester of immersive study abroad for all cultural and area studies majors.

  • Priority # 1G: 
  • Create Murray Fellows to promote teacher/scholars in line with the vision, mission, and academic goals of the school.

  • Priority # 1H: 
  • Build the organizational and administrative environment of the School.

  • Priority # 1I: 
  • Develop and implement an Information Technology strategy for the School.



  • Priority # 2A: 
  • Create a new major in International Studies which brings together the interdisciplinary minors with in-depth foreign language study and study abroad.

  • Priority # 2B: 
  • The existing programs in Jewish Studies, Hebrew and Arabic will lead to additional majors and/or minors.

  • Priority # 2C: 
  • A structured partnership will be created with the new campus-wide Global Scholars program.

  • Priority # 2D: 
  • Signature LCWA courses will be created for incoming CofC first year students.

  • Priority # 2E: 
  • The school will develop a plan for systemically furthering the cultural components of the curriculum within LCWA courses.  Course offerings that examine values and traditions both past and present, and the ways in which the past informs the present will be introduced.

  • Priority # 2F: 
  • Language tracks will be developed or enhanced as need and school partnership opportunities exist to tailor language acquisition to specific business, science/technology and government requirements.

  • Priority # 2G: 
  • Existing expertise and programs in language translation and interpretation will be strengthened and developed to a minor or concentration.

  • Priority #2H: 
  • Additional internationally-oriented internships and service learning opportunities will be designed for the needs of the students and implemented.

  • Priority # 2I: 
  • A brand-based marketing effort will be initiated to define the distinctiveness of LCWA for others at the College and to project it across the region, the state, and the nation.

  • Priority # 2J: 
  • Summer immersion language programs will be created and focused on high school students and teachers as well as college students.