World Languages & Cultures

Intensive Italian for Gamers melds immersive gameplay with language learning and metacognition.

This is the next profile in "Elon Connected," a new series that highlights how students are involved with campus organizations at Elon.

Nine Elon faculty presented their scholarship at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2020 Virtual Conference on Global Learning.

The four virtual lectures by scholars and activists were coordinated by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, El Centro, and programs of Latin American Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, International and Global Studies, and the Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies.

This summer, a small army of faculty and staff prepared technology and tools that create opportunities for students to connect with material and each other.

Edited by William Moner, Phillip Motley and Rebecca Pope-Ruark, “Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education” provides case studies of innovation at several institutions and vision chapters of higher education’s future, with notable contributions from Elon faculty, staff and administrators.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, students conducting research as a part of Elon’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program shared their work with the Elon community virtually on Wednesday.

Elon University saw 21 faculty and staff members retire this academic year.

Mikaela Benton ’21 has been named an inaugural recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Key into Public Service Scholarship.

Linda Martindale ’88 retired this week after 30 years as a program assistant with Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.