Hampton University - Department of Foreign Language

Department of Foreign Language

Modern Foreign Language

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French students present a play for Global Awarness Week

The Department of Modern Foreign Languages has a commitment to developing every student's Awareness Week ability to be an international success. We try to remove all limitations from our students.

Our students go places! Hampton students have taken courses on campus in Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Russian, and have studied abroad in places, like Spain, Mexico, France, and China. We are responding to students' needs to communicate, to understand the world and its peoples, and to be a part of a growing international marketplace of commerce and ideas.

Students majoring in Spanish may specialize in either literature, language, culture, or business or medical Spanish. We think this is a flexible program and that enables students to move easily to graduate school or employment in a wide range of careers.

Our Goal

The goal of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages is to prepare students to compete in the global job market, by enabling them to function professionally in the language they choose. It is committed to developing proficiency in speaking, understanding, reading, writing and culture at all levels of instruction. The service mission of the department is to offer a task-based program of instruction to students whose academic departments require them to take foreign languages. These departments set the level of proficiency their students should attain, and Modern Foreign Languages brings them there. The expertise mission of the department is to educate majors in Spanish who concentrate in either language, literature, culture, or language for special purposes, i.e., business and health professions. Expertise students must attain a high level of linguistic skill, cultural sophistication and critical thinking ability in these areas, so that ultimately they may promote understanding among people of English and Spanish-speaking communities.