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The Asian & African Languages & Literature department brings together the instruction of the languages and literature of more than two thirds of the world's population. The curriculum is based on linguistic and cultural competence. Students are trained to communicate with others in a wide region extending from the Atlantic east toward the Pacific, and to examine contemporary national and ethnic cultures of Asia and Africa within a global context. Our mission is to foster a view of language, literature and culture at once indigenous and global, informed by local histories of internal development as well as by theories of cross-cultural influence.