Why Study Cinema and World Languages at UW-Madison?
UW-Madison is a wonderful place to explore world cinema! The UW was one of the first universities in the United States to establish a program in speech communication, and then branched out into film, media and cultural studies. In the Department of Communication Arts, you can study history, theory, criticism, cultural uses and production practices of radio, television and film. The University’s International Institute, a national leader in area and international studies, covers virtually every region of the globe. The UW-Madison has one of the most extensive language offerings of any institution of higher education, with the capacity to teach more than 60 languages. The annual Wisconsin Film Festival and ongoing campus film series make it possible year-round to see international films rarely screened in the Midwest It might be tempting to imagine English as a universal language. But now as always, proficiency in a foreign language remains the key to another culture, as well as to many
