Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies

Come for the stories. Leave with a new perspective on the world—and your place in it! Register for FREN 321: From Here, There and Elsewhere, a new course offered this Fall. and discover unforgettable stories that cross borders, languages, and cultures.

In this course, you'll:

🎬 Watch thought-provoking films and short films that bring migration experiences to life.
📚 Read powerful stories that challenge, inspire, and stay with you by Marcel Zang, Fatou Diomé, Kim Thúy.
💭 Explore themes of home, belonging, memory, language, food, love, and family.
🗣️ Reflect on how migration transforms voices, lives, and the way we tell our stories.
📖 Engage with thought-provoking questions about exile, borders, culture, living and writing between worlds.
🤝 Gain a deeper understanding of the human experience behind migration—whether chosen or forced.

Develop a rudimentary working knowledge of modern Ukrainian for the professional world and complete a CSL opportunity with Ukrainian partners in UKR 306 - Ukrainian Business, offered in Fall 2026.

Learn how to:
- Write a resume and a cover letter
- Engage in professional correspondence
- Conduct a simulated job interview
- 'Open' a bank account in Ukraine
- Discuss business etiquette in today's Ukraine

From trolls and fairy tales to Pippi Longstocking and the Moomins, explore the magical stories, unforgettable characters, and breathtaking artwork that have made Scandinavian children's literature beloved around the world in SCAND 326 - Scandinavian Children’s Literature offered in Fall 2026.

This course is taught in English and has no prerequisites.

Congratulations to MLCS professor Micah True for receiving the 2026 Canadian Historical Association Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize (English) for "The Jesuit 'Relations': A Biography".

Learn more: https://ow.ly/Lb5j50ZcUkH

Congratulations to all the Arts grads walking the stage at Spring Convocation today! 🎓

Your dedication, creativity, and hard work have brought you here, and we can’t wait to see where they take you next! ✨

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This National Indigenous History Month, we invite you to go beyond the land acknowledgement and take some time to understand your relationship to the land, treaties, and to the Indigenous communities near you.

Across the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, along with FNS, we take our commitment to treaty and to the 94 Calls to Action seriously and make it a priority not just in June, but year-round.

This , we're amplifying First Nations, Inuit and Métis voices and taking some time to ground ourselves on the land in which we're situated.

Variations in tone are core features of many of Africa’s more than 2,000 languages and dialects. This aural nuance is the kind of vital data that the text-based large language models of AI have been slow to accommodate, leaving out most of the world’s oral languages and dialects.

Newly appointed CIFAR AI Chair Ife Adebara, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, is working to change this. Her research aims to incorporate African languages into AI tools like ChatGPT to make them more accessible to users worldwide.

Read more about her work: https://bit.ly/4uOQv9c

Congratulations to Sylvia Ijeoma Madueke for receiving the 2026 Faculty of Arts Academic Teaching Staff (ATS) Award!