The dramatic rebirth of the foreign language department in a four-year liberal arts college is documented. The process is described as having three stages: assessment of the department's curricular mission in light of the changed student constituency; development of a long-range plan for outreach and public relations activities to prepare the way for complete revision of foreign language course offerings; and the drafting and implementation of a new program. Events and conditions leading up to the departmental crisis and program reorganization, the gathering of administrative support, the planning process, and the lessons learned from it are chronicled, and the integration of liberal arts principles into the program curriculum is described. The success of the effort is seen in the department's deliberate marshalling of support among colleagues in the expanding business and social sciences departments and in the productive alliances that have emerged from it. (MSE)