The International Languages and Cultures major requires that students produce an 8-credit St. Mary's Project. The project allows students to tailor the major according to their own needs by pursuing their interests in one or more subfields of study: literary or cultural analysis, creative writing, linguistics, translation, foreign language pedagogy, etc. In preparation for the SMP, all majors enroll in a St. Mary's Project Workshop in the spring of the junior year, which exposes them to the different subfields of study and helps them refine their research skills. At the end of their senior year, they present their project to students and faculty in the department.
For more details, review the requirements for the International Languages and Cultures major.

The projects

2007

John H. Adams: "King Arthur & Dietrich von Bern: An Analysis of Medieval Warrior-Kings" (German)

Amanda Alonso-Valenteen: "Living in Dos Mundos: Mi historia real" (Spanish)

Markea Daniels: "La adoración de Dios: Música de devoción traducida del inglés al español" (Spanish)

Gina Dreyer: "Mi mundo multilingual (Stories of Learning Languages)" (Spanish)

Amanda Hepler: "The Teaching of Culture in Secondary Language Education" (French)

Chelsea McCracken: "A lever le voile: Un roman" (French)

Kate Meyer: "Cuando las ideas y las palabras se encuentran: una traducción de Harriet the Spy" (Spanish)

Andrea Moody: "Politics and Textbooks in China" (Chinese)

Stephanie Moskios: "Mujeres Unidas" (Latin American Studies)

Sharlitta Myrick: "Carnival: Crossing Cultural Lines" (Spanish)

John Neville: "Feng Jicai on the Cultural Revolution: Ten Years for One Hundred People" (Chinese)

Lydia Park: "The Bilingual Culture of Korean-Argentines" (Spanish)

Sarah Pernick: "Maltrato: El abuso físico contra las mujeres en Sevilla" (Spanish)

Dora B. Sabella: "The Poetry of Roberto Sosa: Promoting of Social Change in Honduran Society" (Spanish)

Jessica Wells: "La violencia doméstica y el machismo: Manejo de límites para hombres" (Spanish)

Samantha Zabel: "Teaching Chinese through Stories" (Chinese)

2006

Anela Collazo: "From the Literal to the Culturally Specific: The Art of Translation and Its Application to Las venas abiertas de América Latina by Eduardo Galeano" (Spanish)

Allie Courtney: "The Political Theater of Eva Perón and Jiang Qing" (Spanish and Chinese)

Marianna DiMeo: "The Art and Craft of Translation in Folk Tales" (French and Spanish)

Linden Ellis: "Yuan Ming Yuan: Reflections of the State on Nature." (Chinese)

Andrew Gnagey : "'En nuestros dominios existen algunos malos cristianos': Religious Doctrine, Conversion, and the Expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain" (Spanish)

Christopher Goggin: "The Politics in Love: Explorations of the Impact that Love Songs had in China through Translations of Chyi Chin’s Music" (Chinese)

Ellen Kernan : "Through Their Eyes: A Study on Assimilation of Latinos into the United States" (Latin American Studies)

Andrea Kordonski : "Multicultural Literature and Its Use in the Elementary Classroom" (Spanish)

Stacey Mays : "Latina Stereotypes in Popular US Film from Silent to Contemporary" (Latin American Studies)

Miranda Oakley: "Translation Work for Point Lookout State Park" (Latin American Studies)

Nikki Porter: "Las Hormiguitas: The Little Ants" (Spanish)

Hope Swank: "Facebook en Español" (Spanish)

Catherine Teater : "Madres Latinas en St. Mary's County: Adjusting to a New Life Style" (Spanish)

2005

Ilka Allen: "Forty-three Years of Struggles: The Participation of the Panamanian Woman in the Social and Political Space (1903-1946)" (Spanish)

Danielle Bliss: "Nosferatu and Dracula: German and American Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Historical Exploration" (German)

Ellen Farrell: "A Song to Color-Cover the Blush: Poems Written in English Translated into Spanish" (Spanish)

Sarah Fisher: "Unveiling Public Schools: A Study of the French Secularity Law" (French)

Rachel Laribee: "Cell Phones and Coca-Cola in the Land of Prayer Wheels: Traditiona and Modernity in Contemporary Tibet" (Chinese)

Alvaro McRae: "Nicaragua en mi piel: In Search of My Identity" (Spanish)

Lindsay Peters: "Globalization's Threat to French Identity with Respect to Food Culture" (French)

Nadine Ravitz: "Gender Role Formation among Latino Preschoolers in Washington, D.C." (Spanish)

Sarah Richman: "Spanish Women Writers in Exile (1939-1975)" (Spanish)

R. Michelle Trotter: "Literature as Therapy for Women Authors in Chile and Argentina: Confronting the Trauma of the Dictatorships" (Spanish)