Languages Across the Curriculum
The Languages Across the Curriculum Program allows students with high intermediate
to advanced competency to integrate foreign language with their study of disciplines
commonly taught in 英语. LAC allows them to enrich and expand the intercultural
and international content of such courses and to expand their foreign-language proficiency.
Cross-cultural and multilingual inquiry affords a more complete learning experience
and provides a basis for comparative understanding not available when limited to the
use of resources in only one language. In connecting LAC with a course taught in 英语,
students will develop a deeper and more precise understanding of the target language
and culture by reading in that language. Students will also attain a better understanding
of how a different culture approaches the discipline in question.
In order to participate in Skidmore’s LAC, you need to enroll in a LAC class in the language of your choice and connect it with a class in a department other than World Languages and 文献. There are two levels of LAC: one at the intermediate level, a 1-credit 220 LAC course offered in 法国, 德国, 意大利, and 西班牙语, and an advanced 2-credit 340 LAC course offered in 中国人, 法国, 德国, 日本, and 西班牙语. 专业 in Asian Studies, majors and minors in International Affairs, and minors in Latin American studies are required to complete at least one unit of LAC.