How Your Gift Makes a Difference

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures houses the only nationally accredited foreign language teacher licensure program in the state of Mississippi. Your gift will offer these students the research and travel experience they need to become top educators. 

The University of Southern Mississippi is a leader in providing high-quality study abroad opportunities. Your gift will send an exceptional foreign language student to Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico or Austria.

Our department's Master of Arts in the Teaching of Languages is one of the best-established and most highly respected programs of its kind in the nation.  Your gift will support graduate students and faculty research in this growing field.

We invite you to be a part of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures' exciting educational opportunities. Please consider a tax-deductible gift that will make a difference in a language student's life and education. Funds are deposited with the USM Foundation, a separate non-profit organization that exists to support USM.

Please make checks payable to the USM Foundation/Fund 1560.

You can send your check to:

The University of Southern Mississippi

Foreign Languages and Literatures

118 College Drive #5038

Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

To make a gift with your Visa, MasterCard, or American Express, please visit the USM Foundation or call 601-266-5602 and ask to have your contribution awarded to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.