Inter-Disciplinary Orientation

To prepare students to participate in this $8 billion Localization industry we need to provide them with a skill set that is a blend of technological expertise, e-marketing, inter-cultural communication effectiveness, linguistic savvy, cultural understanding and international business orientation. Creating this diverse skill set could be challenging for any one department on the campus. We not only need cutting edge technological resources but we also need faculty members trained in such cross-disciplinary knowledge.

Our Inter-Departmental Partners:

• Department of Accounting and MIS: Provides our students training in Unicode, XML and other IT related topics.

• Department of Foreign Languages and Literature: Provides our students training in Foreign Languages and translation.

• The Center for Regional and Continuing Education: Provides our students an opportunity to attend the non-credit localization certification program workshop. Read more

• Self-Instructional Language Program: Provides our students specialized language training in Arabic and Chinese.

• The Office of International Programs: Provides our students opportunities to study abroad and facilitates student exchange. The Office of International Programs also helps us find international partner universities.

• Student Computing and User Services: Provides lab and computing support and training in web site design.