1) our mission
2) our course offerings
3) our faculty and their specialties
4) our majors and our various programs in the minors
5) our tutoring services
6) our state-of-the-art language laboratory and other
resources for improving language learning

In addition, by calling us at (646) 312-4210, you can learn about our faculty who are always available to guide you and offer further and more personalized information concerning honors courses, career opportunities, requirements for the Spanish major, and our diverse minor programs.

As a well-known business school with an extremely strong liberal arts component, Baruch College occupies a unique place among senior colleges in the CUNY system. While it offers students a professional focus, it also exposes them to disciplines in letters, arts and sciences that create well-rounded future leaders. The Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature has for many years been at the forefront of complementing the business school's needs for turning out articulate, cultivated graduates. We accomplish this through several means.

First, our commercial business and civilization courses offered in Chinese, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish prepare students to perform internationally as well as locally in New York's multi-cultural business environment.

Second, our literature courses—taught either in the original language or in translation—expose students to other ways of thinking, of seeing the world and conceiving identity. The essays assigned in these courses teach them how to think and express themselves clearly, logically and analytically.

Third, a foreign language course teaches students not only how to speak, read and write in another tongue, it also teaches them about their own language, structures, and specificity. For many of our students, their only exposure to grammar and stylistics come from their study of another language. There is no better way to learn the mechanics of communication than through the study of another language.

We again welcome you and invite you to contact the Department for further information.

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