现代语言和文化研究在四个主要领域或专业领域提供文学硕士和博士学位课程：应用语言学，媒体和文化研究，翻译研究以及跨国和比较文学。在学习各种文化和语言的过程中，他们带来了个人的经验，在一个充满创造力，动态和国际化的学习环境中，开发和探索研究问题，强调学术和专业培训。这些课程设有跨学科和跨文化的研讨会，由学生设计的专业发展档案和座谈会，以支持合作并缩短学位授予时间。我们的毕业生具有独特的文化交流能力和对全球多样性的承诺，他们以热情的教育家，创新的研究人员和富有启发性的领导者的身份从事政府，企业和学术界的职业。希
Each stream is based around the model of the cohort, meaning students admitted together into a stream will proceed together through their coursework, portfolio modules, colloquia, workshops, and other required program elements. The cohort model offers peer-support and builds enduring collegial ties through the end of graduate study-and beyond. Each stream features dedicated core courses, broad faculty expertise, and electives specific or related to stream content and, when possible, to the linguistic, cultural, or thematic capacities and interests of the students in the cohort.<br><br>Faculty-member mentors work alongside students to support research interests that take into account diverse theoretical approaches-including gender and sexuality theory, visual cultural theory, urban studies, folklore, film theory, digital and internet studies, discourse analysis, second-language acquisition, and more-in time periods ranging from the premodern to the contemporary. The department supports research undertaken on a wide range of languages and cultural regions. In each of our graduate programs, we offer interdisciplinary, transcultural, and collaborative courses with a focus on professional development throughout.<br><br>Study national and global literatures, criticism, theory, and their intersections with other disciplines such as visual, cultural, or media studies within a single language or across languages and with an eye toward the historical and contemporary importance of literature for nations, cultures or social movements.