The Department of Modern Foreign Languages, as a service area offers language courses in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Swahili, Arabic, and Russian. These courses are designed to help students from other departments across campus to fulfill their language requirements, and also to provide opportunities for students to expand their knowledge of foreign languages. Like the majors, they can participate in exchange programs to further develop their communicative skills. A student enrolled in a lesser taught language can only take 4 semesters of the language that is to say up to intermediate level. Contact the office for more information.

Students who major in Spanish can choose from four different tracks: Literature, Language, Business and Medical. In order to complete their requirements, all students must take the experiential learning course as well as the Senior Capstone Seminar/Case Studie and defend their paper.

Students who declare Spanish as a minor must take 15 hours at 200 - 400 levels. Contact the Office for more information.

All language courses focus on the acquisition of the target culture and the development of all aspects of communication skills: gesture, speaking, writing, listening including electronic communication skills and others.