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For students
As a result of participation in the program, students will:

• complete the discipline course successfully;
  
• experience a deeper understanding of the materials read, heard and discussed through the foreign language;
  
• gain increased confidence in their ability to use the foreign language;
  
• use the foreign language more, particularly as a part of their academic life;
  
• change gradually their world view as they gain a better understanding of their own culture and the culture(s) of the foreign language.
  

For "disciplinary" faculty participants
As a result of participation in the program, faculty participants from non-language disciplines will:

• incorporate more use of foreign language into their teaching;
  
• enrich their courses through the use of more foreign language materials;
  
• gain increased confidence in their ability to use the foreign language;
  
• forge cross-departmental links with other faculty participating in the program;
  
• carry out program-related research leading to conference presentations and/or publications.
  

For foreign language faculty participants
As a result of participation in the program, foreign language faculty participants will:

• deepen their knowledge and understanding of a non-language disciplinary area;
  
• find new ways to incorporate authentic materials from different disciplines into language and literature courses;
  
• forge cross-departmental links with other faculty participating in the program;
  
• carry out program-related research leading to conference presentations and/or publications.
  

For departments
As a result of participation in the program, departments will:

• enrich their course offerings through the use of foreign language materials;
  
• provide an additional opportunity for faculty development to their members;
  
• attract highly-motivated students to their courses;
  
• forge cross-departmental links with other participating departments.
  

In addition, language departments will:

• review the second-year foreign language curriculum in light of student performance in FLAC courses in order to determine how adequately these students are prepared for participation in the FLAC program.
  

For the Library
Through the FLAC program, the College Library will achieve:

• better holdings in the target foreign language and discipline areas;
  
• increased student and faculty use of its foreign language materials.
  

For the College
Through the FLAC program, the College will:

• achieve better its mission with respect to global education and foreign language education;
  
• serve as a model to other institutions in the field of foreign language education.