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Renovated Hagerty Hall unveiled

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Ohio State’s Historic Hagerty Hall Reopens with New World Media and Culture Center

COLUMBUS – Beginning in January 2005, Ohio State University students whose degree programs include foreign language, literature and culture courses, will benefit from a brand new facility located in a renovated Hagerty Hall.

Prominently located on the Oval in the heart of The Ohio State University campus, Hagerty Hall’s first floor houses the new World Media and Culture Center, which will integrate international satellite television, radio, print media, the Internet, and multimedia instructional materials into the traditional classroom environment.  In addition to learning languages, students will acquire the essential cultural knowledge necessary to understand and successfully navigate the increasingly complex world, for example, of international business or government service.

In addition to the World Media and Culture Center, Hagerty Hall is also the new home of the departments of Comparative Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, French and Italian, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese, the Foreign Language Center, and Humanities Information Systems.

Historic Hagerty Hall was built in 1924 and enlarged in 1948.  Originally known as the Commerce and Journalism building, Hagerty was renamed in 1947 for James Hagerty, first dean of Commerce and Journalism. Its successor college, the College of Business, occupied the building until 1998. That year, plans were put in motion to renovate Hagerty for the College of Humanities and its World Media and Culture Center. Now, more than six years in the making, Hagerty is reopening, this time as a principal international portal of the university.  

(view full release on Humanities site)

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World Media and Culture Center

College of Humanities