About the Department
The Department of Modern & Classical Languages (MCL) is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The department brings together students of varied ethnic backgrounds with foreign students from many parts of the world, in an educational experience centered on the learning of a wide range of languages, literatures and cultures. With resources of the University of Houston, Texas' premier urban teaching and research university, MCL offers majors, minors and many courses that may be taken as parts of other programs throughout the college and university. Our overall mission is summarized in three basic objectives:
- To foster understanding and communication through the study of world languages, literatures, and cultures in the age of globalization.
- To provide education and training for students seeking careers drawing on or enhanced by such study.
- To develop established and new programs contributing to local, regional, national and international knowledge.
