Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA25 - FYS-Living/Babel:Polyglot Life

Languages mix, move, collide, and evolve, just like humans do. We encounter languages and dialects from all over the country and the world in our classrooms, dorms, and streets every single day. In Living in Babel: Language, Power, and Polyglot Life, we'll explore what languages are, how language is an active participant in social life, and how to create a classroom, university, and world that welcomes language diversity. We'll be reading literature, listening to pop music, and watching contemporary examples from TV and film to answer these questions, as well as to reflect on our places in an increasingly multilingual world.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.