A KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES- is indispensable these days for leaders, journalists, educators, businessmen, medical professionals, social workers — everyone. Geographical boundaries and distance are becoming almost insignificant, even as the barriers of language and culture grow more difficult. In the process of learning to understand other languages and cultures, we come to think in new ways, and we are connected to the world and to history. Our faculty is engaged with the community and its modern problems, and is also proud to offer some of ECU's most intellectually rigorous courses in the humanities: