The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) is the primary academic unit on the University of Maryland's College Park campus devoted to instruction and research in the world's languages, literatures, and cultures. Located in Jiménez Hall on the campus' main mall, the School is a unit within the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU). Today, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures seeks to investigate and engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as questions surrounding language learning itself.

The University of Maryland College Park foreign language program ranks in Top 20 Foreign Language Schools in the United States and The Best Foreign Language School in Maryland. Approximately 1,000 BA/minor/graduate students and 100 faculty, TAs, and staff are engaged in this broad range of inquiry, individuals who themselves represent languages and cultures from across the globe. Through the school’s diverse ensemble of activity, our faculty and staff are united in our commitment to preparing students, undergraduate and graduate alike, to become knowledgeable, active, critically flexible, and intellectually vibrant citizens in an increasingly interconnected world and to furthering knowledge and debate about the languages, literatures, and cultures of which it is made.