The World Languages Department creates an academic environment that encourages cooperative learning, risk-taking, and higher-order thinking. The World Languages Department at Hudson Public Schools will help all students to:
- develop communication skills that will enable them to use a foreign language in real life context;
- develop literacy skills in a language other than English that are applicable to English learning;
- use the target language to further their knowledge of other disciplines;
- develop a deep understanding of the connections among the cultural products, practices and perspectives of the communities of speakers of the target language;
- be culturally proficient, recognizing cultural biases and stereotypes;
- develop an understanding of the relationships between language and culture;
- further the knowledge of their own culture and language by comparing them to the target cultures and language;
- access information from points of view only available through the target language;
- meet college and career expectations in a competitive and global environment.