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WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL OF
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE part of the Faculty for Humanities.

Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn non US-English languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and the main characteristics by which they can be recognized.

Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics. Wikiversity's School of Linguistics is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

School history

The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the Wikibooks project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed of Wikiversity's schools.

On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, though it failed to organize or function adequately.

Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities.

School bulletin board

• We are always looking for contributors to our school--please see our list of projects if you're looking for a place to start! Signed, Trinity507
• We are in the process of reformatting the school homepage in the hopes of making it easier to navigate--please bear with us and feel free to jump right in and help! Signed, Trinity507

Notice of New Resources

• The School of Language and Literature library was founded February 21st, 2009.
• The School of Language and Literature resource catalog has been revised and updated (still under construction) as of February 21st, 2009.

Departments and divisions

Foreign language departments

see also School of Linguistics

• Foreign Language Learning center
• Arabic language department
• Aymara language department part of the South American Languages Division
• Breton language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
• Chinese language department
• Cornish language department part of the Brythonic Celtic Languages Division
• French language department
• German language department
• Hebrew language department
• Italian language department
• Japanese language department
• Klingon language department language invented for Star Trek by Marc Okrand
• Korean language department
• Quechua language department part of the South American Languages Division
• Southeast Asian language department
• Spanish language department
• Tolkien language department languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Turkish language department

Writing and literature departments

• Writing center
• Literary studies department

Disputed departments

listed here are all of our substantial but disputed pages

• English language
• English studies department

Tasks

all of our potentially valuable but empty, underdeveloped or nonexistent pages

• Topic:Portuguese
• Indonesian
• Department of Germanic Studies(under major construction)
• American poetry
• American poetry
• British novel
• Slavic
• History history of literature

Catalogs and Directories

• School of Language and Literature library wikibook library
• School of Language and Literature resource catalog

See also

• School of Linguistics
• School of Classics
• Humanities Portal
• Social Sciences Portal
• Wikiversity's Writing Center