Charles E. Culpeper Language Resource Center

Dr. Joel Goldfield, LARC Director and Associate Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures

The Language Resource Center or “LARC” is located on the second floor of Canisius Hall, overlooking Long Island Sound. The LARC supports the multimedia language/culture needs of students, faculty, and staff, especially those engaged in the study and teaching of modern languages and literatures. The 25-station facility uses fiber optic technology to network IBM-compatible and Apple Macintosh computers equipped with CD-ROM burners and DVD players. A variety of international TV programs, films on videotape, and standard multimedia and audio-visual equipment is also available. A large, mainly student staff assists LARC visitors in using interactive multilingual word processors, e-mail programs, tutoring software, cultural simulations, adventure games, authoring systems, and World-Wide Web browsers to enrich the language learning or teaching experience.

The LARC is used both by reservation as a classroom extension

for orientations and special technology-assisted lessons

and as a library-style, walk-in facility (directly above).

Faculty from Modern Languages & Literatures and from International Studies at a LARC Workshop

The importance of language study is borne out by Fairfield University’s support of nine languages at present: Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. Fairfield University is one of several hundred American universities or colleges requiring language instruction at the Intermediate level or above for satisfaction of the foreign language/culture requirement. Illustrating this commitment by the University below is a short video clip (about 9 seconds’ duration, 1 Mb in size) with a recent statement by Dr. Orin Grossman, Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and Academic Vice President of Fairfield University.

Dr. Orin Grossman, AVP, 9-sec. video 1

Click on the image to see the video clip.