Love of Language Anonymous

The College of Arts and Sciences’ flexible opportunities allow me to best pursue all my interests. For example, by integrating physical and information science into biological science, Computational Biology allows me core training in biology without neglecting computer science. With my newfound passion for the brain’s behavior, Psychology of Language (PSYCH 215) also assimilates my passion for languages into cognitive studies. Diverse programs with strong biological content at CAS draw connections between my many interests.

The Language House Program, however, is my major reason for choosing CAS. My past two years in America proved that complete immersion in a foreign language is the best way to acquire proficiency. The Language House Program offers the precise setting where one has to be almost hexalingual to understand all that is going on, which will be a catalyst to the mastering of my fourth language, Japanese. The Japanese FALCON and Japan Abroad IES Program at Chubu University will be equally helpful in attaining superb fluency.

My interests are unlimited. With no intended major, the extraordinary breadth across CAS’s curriculum permits me to explore as broad a field as possible. One-third of the required units being...