Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Field Group

At Pitzer College, Field Groups (similar to a discipline or department) organize major requirements and courses.

Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is a multidisciplinary field group encompassing curriculum and programing in both languages and cultures and in writing. 

We invite students to see languages and literacies as social practices.  Based on the assumption that communication is always situated, the field group–across its domains of interdisciplinary expertise–engages students to speak, write, and read within communities of practice as co-producers of knowledges. 

In praxis- and community-based courses in languages, writing, and teaching, students investigate the cultural production, circulation, and uses of communicative practices, exploring how language shapes and is shaped by its diverse practitioners. 

Students are also equipped with skills to participate meaningfully in the intellectual life of the college and beyond and to reflect critically on the ways in which language mediates identity, power, and culture.