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We invite your participation in the activities of the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Â鶹´«Ã½, whether as attendees of department-sponsored events, creators of the events themselves (presentations by alumni and other friends of the department), visitors to campus or financial donors.

Donations

Donate online using a credit card to fund department projects and activities. Your gift to the department can be general or specific:

• The Rodger Swan Memorial Fund for Japanese Studies
• The Kristen Rushlow Living Latin Award Fund
• Transference – Poetry Journal

Student scholarships

Language scholarships

We are working to , one for each of our language areas.

Study abroad scholarships

to travel the world while exploring their passion.

Student emergency fund

This fund to worthy Â鶹´«Ã½s who find themselves unable to cover the cost of books and other academic materials.

Academic and community activities

The department supports a variety of activities:

• The department occasionally hosts conferences, including a conference on Arabic linguistics co-sponsored by WMU and the American University of Cairo and the Symposium on Gender Studies Across Languages and Disciplines.

• Our speaker series invites experts in our fields of language, linguistics, translation, teaching, literature and culture to talk with Â鶹´«Ã½s, faculty and members of the community.
• We support the Southwest Michigan Roundtable on French and Francophone Studies for high school and university teachers in the region.

Visiting professorship

This position rotates among the disciplines and languages in the department. Perhaps the greatest need of our department is to have a larger number of full-time teachers in order to make our programs more stable and assure their continued excellence. Because the popularity of individual languages can change within a single decade, a rotating professorship would enable us to respond to changing Â鶹´«Ã½ interests and needs in the area of languages and connected disciplines.

Faculty Research Travel Fund

Our faculty members need to attend conferences in order to remain well informed for their Â鶹´«Ã½s, to pursue research and stay current in the languages and cultures that are our specialties. These conferences are often held out of state or abroad.