Center Spaces

The Language Resource Center is comprised of the following teaching, learning and working areas:

Reception and Course Reserve Desk

The Reception desk and Course Reserve area are located at the entrance of the Language Resource Center (COED 434). Students may ask for assistance from LRC student staff and check out materials placed on reserve for their foreign language or ESL course.

Main Classroom (COED 434)

The Main Classroom is a computer classroom that is available for use by instructors in the languages and culture studies department and the english language training institute.

The classroom is equipped with an instructor podium comprised of PC with CD, DVD ROM, multi-region DVD player, and a Blue-ray player. There are six, 96-inch monitors around the peremiter of the room, and integrated overhead speaker system and seats 40 student laptops with headsets and built-in webcam.

The classroom has the standard public lab applications including Microsoft Office Tools and standard web browsers.

Video editing classroom (COED 037)

The LRC video editing classroom is available for use by instructors in Languages and Culture Studies and Film Studies. It is available to other departments by prior arrangement and agreement with the LCS Department. The classroom contains 16 video-editing stations and one instructor station. Beside having the standard instructor station component and software, it has a Mac Mini with SuperDrive & Final Cut Pro.

Viewing & Listening Station Computers

There are eight stations equipped for individual student work in the LRC (COED 434). These stations contain Dell Optiplex 760 PCs with headsets with microphones that can be used for accessing online audo and video course materials, language software, multulingual web browsing and word processing, and more. These workstations are divided by partitions to facilitate recording activities and individual work..

The listening stations are a part of the public lab of the LRC and available for use by any UNC Charlotte student for computing work, accessing online audio and video course materials, language software, multilingual web browsing and word processing, and printing.