School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
你好 – guten Tag – bonjour – こんにちは – здравствуйте – buenos días –
안 녕 하 세 요 – buongiorno
Welcome to the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
The School currently offers degree programmes in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Linguistics — plus 100-level courses in Italian and Korean during the summer semester. In addition to languages the School also offers related culture courses, and stresses the importance of the mutually influential relationship between language and culture.
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Emily Foate, Bachelor of Arts with Honours in French and Linguistics. 'Learning a language other than your own opens you up to a whole other world of people... ' |
Seminars
Linguistics Seminar Series 2009
Friday 4 Dec, 3:00 to 4:00 pm, room 203 English Building. Professor Sieb
Nooteboom (Utrecht University) on: Monitoring inner and
overt speech for speech errors. Abstract (PDF, 134 KB).
News and Features
Summer Scholarship
Congratulations to Tim Bowron, who was awarded a Summer
Scholarship to work on the Spanish research project Exile and Identity
in the Hispanic World during the 20th Century: Reflections and Representations.
Successes in UC's French Programme
At a French Programme function on 15 October, Denise Jack and Stephanie
Borthwick, two final year students of French language, culture
and linguistics, were awarded Paris Medals by the Programme Director, Dr
Sylvie Gagnon, on behalf of the French Embassy. More >>
Prestigious
honour for UC Russian Studies
expert
Congratulations to Professor Henrietta Mondry, who has been
elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities Te Mātanga
o Te Whāinga Aronui. More >>
Bayka Magendans wins major international Chinese language competition
Congratulations to Baya, who is studying for a BA in Chinese and Religious
Studies, for winning the international 8th Chinese Bridge Proficiency
Competition. More
>>
Recently published books
by staff of the School of Languages, Cultures
and Linguistics. Read more >>
UC Fellowship at Cambridge
Congratulations to Professor Henrietta Mondry (Russian) who was awarded
a University of Canterbury Fellowship at Cambridge University from 3
October 2010 to 3 January 2011.
LACL Top in Research Rankings
In the PBRF Quality Evaluation Report Linguistics and Foreign Languages at the University of Canterbury were ranked number one in New Zealand.
Contact
Ph: +64 3 364 2556 or 364 2184
Fax: +64 3 364 2557
Email: lacl@canterbury.ac.nz
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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