Undergraduate Division Minors
Explore The Minor
In Applied Language Studies
Sometimes called Applied Linguistics, The minor covers foreign language learning and teaching, bi- and multilingualism, translation and interpretation, communication in professional contexts, or intercultural communication.
What Is Applied Language Studies?
The ALS minor will help students use their language learning experience, for example, to gain an understanding of:
- How languages are learned
- how language is related to individual cognition and to social context
- how languages are used to achieve a wide range of social, cultural, aesthetic purposes
- how language relates to culture, power and identity
- how language and other symbolic systems construct both actual and virtual realities
- what it means to be bi- or multilingual
Student academic Advisor
Michelle Herrera
The Student Academic Advisor’s job is to guide students and faculty as they navigate University, College, and Major Program policies.
Contact ALS
Undergraduate Academic Building (UAB) 534
Academic Advisor for the ALS minor: michellerh@berkeley.edu