
	Department of Modern Foreign Languages

Our Mission

The mission 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.