Abstract
This chapter describes the Wharton School’s Lauder Program with its double concentration in MBA and foreign languages, one of its kind in the United States. It compares that program with the current practice of teaching business courses within the collegiate foreign language curriculum. He suggests that that business language courses can complement and expand the traditional foreign language curriculum if that program integrates business-related components into the language curriculum as a whole. Like other authors in this volume, he frames his suggestions within the calls for change that are articulated in the MLA ad hoc report and other voices asking for reform in language education. Using the example of the Lauder Institute’s language and culture program, the author describes the unique features of that program, notably its emphasis on advanced language competency and business-related content and suggests some ways language departments might integrate several of these components. The chapter concludes with descriptions of ways the Wharton School brings language and business educators together with industrial expertise in order to prepare proficient students able to assume managerial and global positions in foreign countries.
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