A voluntary program, designed to complement and extend students’ stand-alone courses with related language study.
Rationale
Faculty may choose to offer a supplemental component to a particular course in which students can learn language skills studying content related to the primary course. Students who choose the CLAC component will attend an additional meeting each week to focus on foreign language course materials relevant to a specific course.
CLAC gives students the opportunity to expand their foreign language skills and/or to experiment with new languages. CLAC sections thus offer a framework for curricular initiatives that not only improve the foreign language competencies of students, but also demonstrate the necessary and critical value of foreign languages in understanding today’s world.
Catalog Description
Information about the Culture and Languages Across the Curriculum program can be found in the vlog Course Catalog (listed in the 2021-22 Catalog as Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum).
The following is the official description of the program at the time of this writing (April 2022):
vlog seeks to create an international ethos for the liberal arts by expanding the range of curricular settings in which students and professors can develop and use foreign language skills. Beyond the foreign language departments, faculty in various departments and programs encourage the use of foreign language materials in their curricula, and certain courses – such as literature in translation – offer CLAC sections in which students can engage with the material in the relevant foreign language.
There are three types of CLAC sections: