Department Highlights

At the Department of Foreign Languages, we offer our students:

  • Personal attention from professors who care about teaching.
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  • Classes taught by professors who are fluent in their language and have lived abroad.
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  • Small class sizes.
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  • Advanced competency credit: Up to six semester hours of credit for previously acquired language proficiency, which can be applied toward graduation.
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  • General Education Humanities credit for courses beyond 1102.
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  • Free tutoring.
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  • Internship opportunities abroad as well as in the United States.
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  • Study abroad programs.
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  • Language clubs.
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  • Language tables to practice conversational skills in an informal setting.
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  • A favorable teacher-to-student ratio.
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  • Teacher Certification programs in French, German and Spanish; minors in Spanish, French or German with teacher certification.
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  • Departmental honors program/undergraduate research.
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  • A flexible, integrated major offering the options of studying additional languages as well as courses pertinent to the major offered in departments across the campus.
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  • Multimedia classrooms equipped with video, DVD, Internet access, SMART boards and more.
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  • An audio-video and computer-equipped language lab.
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