Program Highlights

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

• Personal attention from professors who care about teaching
• Classes taught by professors who are fluent in their language and have lived abroad
• Small class sizes
• Advanced competency credit – up to 6 semester hours of credit for previously acquired language proficiency – which can be applied toward graduation
• General Education humanities credit for courses beyond 1102
• Free tutoring
• Internships opportunities abroad as well as in the United States
• Study abroad programs
• Language clubs
• Language tables to practice conversational skills in an informal setting
• A favorable teacher-to-student ratio
  
• Teacher certification programs
• Departmental Honors Program
• A flexible curriculum, which offers the option of studying one or two additional languages, minors in Spanish and French with teacher certification
• Multi-media classrooms equipped with video, DVD, Internet access and more
• An audio-video and computer-equipped language lab.