Your language education can take you anywhere — like Kaylee Lahti (Business, Spanish) who is using her skills to go to law school & was awarded a prestigious Phi Kappa Theta fellowship.
Every semester, we offer multiple language courses that incorporate service-learning. Through service-learning, students meet academic objectives while performing meaningful community service.
Faculty in World Languages and Literature are frequently recognized for their commitment to teaching, innovations in online instruction, and investment on creating service-learning experiences for students.
Join a club or student organization to get more involved, or attend some of the many events hosted by the department including open houses, the Language for the Professions Series, and other class events.
The World Languages and Literature (WLL) department offers study abroad programs that allow students to explore the world while strengthening their linguistic competence in the language of their concentration.
Why should you study another language? Our World Languages majors will help you become a more globally engaged and cross-culturally aware citizen.
Language study provides opportunities to use the language you are studying both within the classroom and in the community.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” –Nelson Mandela
Languages represent the voices of your friends, your neighbors, and your colleagues. They document life, literature, governments, history, economics, and cultures, and they allow you to become a knowledgeable and sophisticated citizen of the world, as well as a successful business person or entrepreneur.
The goal of UNO's Department of World Languages and Literature is to provide students with the linguistic and cultural proficiency required of a global education.
Language study at UNO provides a myriad of opportunities to use the language you are studying both within the classroom as well as outside of the classroom through study abroad opportunities and engagement in the Omaha community.
Award-winning faculty, small class sizes, technology-enhanced curricula, and opportunities to connect to other students characterize our programs. Courses in the Department of World Languages and Literature support students' development of the linguistic and cultural competencies required of a global education.
If you are interested developing your linguistic skills as well as an international perspective, the Department of World Languages and Literature is the right choice for you.