Thanks to the generosity of the 5th/3rd and OSU’s Office of Instructional Technology, the Student Computer Center offers 30 computer stations to undergraduate students, particularly those studying foreign languages. It used to be that a visit to the language lab meant donning a pair of headphones, adjusting a volume knob and listening to taped exercises, then providing the requisite responses, which were probably taped for the student's (and the instructor's) review. Today’s students surf the Internet in the foreign languages they are studying for class assignments (or their own pleasure), listen to their foreign language audio programs online, watch streamed video, complete their written exercises online, and connect via email with their friends—both here and abroad.

The 5th/3rd Student Computer Center also makes innovative foreign language software programs available for a wide range of languages taught at OSU. Students can come to the 5th/3rd lab to practice role-plays in Chinese: Communicating in the Culture, practice dialogues for Japanese the Spoken Language, or learn to write Arabic script in Ahlan wa Sahlan.

Downloadable (PDF) Flyer about the OIT Student Computer Center