To provide a supportive environment for both theoretical and applied approaches, and for open, critical debate on various aspects of language learning and language use.
To help students use their language learning experience to gain an understanding of how language is related to individual cognition and to social context.
To help students gain an appreciation of how languages are used to achieve a wide range of social, cultural, aesthetic purposes.
To equip the graduates with some basic knowledge of modern languages necessary for intercultural communication.
To inculcate into graduates a mentality of viewing applied language studies as a problem-driven field that also includes the solution of language-related problems in the real world.