The Department of Modern Foreign Languages provides students with the opportunity to perfect their language skills for global communication and awareness, understand curricular content and innovations, and international experiences that connect them to the larger world.

Students prepare for careers in teaching, foreign service, international business, consulting, communications and media, law enforcement, interpreting and translating.

**Nous aimons enseigner. – Nos encanta enseñar.**

> *“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama*

## Mission Statement

The mission of the **Department of English & Modern Languages** is to prepare students in English composition and creative writing, various genres of literature, critical analysis, and research to transform and enrich diverse learning intellectually, culturally, and professionally, is to prepare and expose languages majors and non-majors to the languages and cultures of different societies and to achieve functional proficiency and communicative competency in the target language through immersion and varied enrichment experiences.

## Vision Statement

**The Department of English & Modern Languages** will be a collaborative center of innovative teaching, learning, and research that will enhance students’ ability to engage globally in a variety of professions through enhances programs and curricula. **WE will also** develop a multilingual community of learners, which affords students the opportunity to perfect their language skills for global communication and awareness, understand curricular content and innovations, and international experiences that connect them to the larger world.

 

 

## Programs

- ###  [ Master of Arts in English ](https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/programs-study/arts-sciences/division-humanities/department-english-modern-languages/english-ma/)
- ###  [ Master of Arts in French ](https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/programs-study/arts-sciences/division-humanities/department-english-modern-languages/french-ma/)
- ###  [ Master of Arts in Spanish ](https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/programs-study/arts-sciences/division-humanities/department-english-modern-languages/spanish-ma/)
 
 

 

- [ Ph.D. in Humanities with a Concentration in English ](https://catalog.cau.edu/graduate/programs-study/arts-sciences/division-humanities/humanities-interdisciplinary-program/humanities-phd/english/)
 
 

 

## Contact Us

Department of English and Modern Languages  
Georgene Bess Montgomery, Ph.D., Professor/Chair  
<gmontgomery@cau.edu>  
Haven-Warren Hall, Room 100  
404-880-6733