Global Language and Culture Center to
Open at St. John’s
July 13, 2009
Students will be even better prepared for engagement and success in
a 21st Century global environment as a result of several language
program enhancements at St. John’s University.
One of the most innovative will be a new, state-of-the art Global
Language and Culture Center that is being designed for the Queens
Campus. The new Center, as currently conceived, will be located in
Council Hall, and will be sectioned into individual language areas
where students can experience a particular language and culture
through conversation, television broadcasts and other
presentations—in essence, become totally immersed in that language
and culture.
“It will be place where student-student and student-faculty
engagement takes place, enhancing the language-learning process,”
explains Herbert Pierson, Professor and Chair of the Languages and
Literature Department in St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences. Dr. Pierson says the 21st Century language center will
“address student linguistic and cultural needs driven by the rise
of globalization.”
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