We started our scavenger hunt at the Love Library because we assumed that’s where most of the languages would be at. Unfortunately we were very wrong, there were barely any signs in there that were not English. We expected to at least find some signs or posters in Spanish in there, but we didn’t. We then moved onto other campus resources such as the Office of Registrar, Student Life and Leadership, Financial Aid & Scholarships Office, Ombudsman, Student Testing Center and etc. However, those places hardly had any signs or posters in any languages other than English. We did find some brochures and forms in Spanish but that didn’t count as public signage. Then we visited the Cross Cultural Center and hit the jackpot. We found most of our signs and posters of different languages in there. For example we found a huge poster in French in there and a “Si Se Puede” poster from the United Farm Workers motto. In order to prove we went to each location we included little hand drawn pictures of ourselves under most of the signs we took pictures of because we are camera shy. 

English in the Love Library

A French poster found in the women studies room in the Cross Culture Center

Arabic found in the Center for Intercultural Relations

Spanish found in the Cross Culture Center

Chinese found in the Cross Culture Center

Tagalog/Filipino found in the Cross Culture Center

The third line is the Korean translation for “star” in English.

The third line is the Vietnamese translation for the word “moon.”

Sign Language for “Center for Intercultural Relations”

Office of Registrar

– By Jia Xu & Xiao Huang GEN100