The cooking sessions in BYU professor Marie Orton’s Italian 361 class represent her passion for helping students to connect—with each other, with her, with the subject matter. Orton said her teaching methods are inspired partly by the examples of many colleagues in the unique language programs at BYU, which offers its students immersive course experiences in 63 languages and which ranks third in the nation for the most bachelor degrees in a foreign language. Orton’s fall class investigated what