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Why Study Languages?
Set yourself apart from other job applicants and open more doors to a wider range of career opportunities!
Employers value learning another language, and the study of World Languages allows you to communicate with people from other cultures, think critically, and be culturally aware.
The Department provides students with linguistic proficiency and cultural frameworks that promote professional skills across languages for an increasingly connected world. Check out our Majors, Minors, and Certificates to discover what the study of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures can offer!
Learning Outcomes for the Study of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The two-semester language requirement provides students with the linguistic and communicative skills to interact in basic transactions with people from the target culture. Students also develop skills, knowledge, and perspectives that will help them gain intercultural awareness, make comparisons and connections between the language studied and their own, and use the language to interact and collaborate with their own community and the globalized world.
Speak at an Advanced Low oral proficiency in the target language.
Write at an Advanced Low written proficiency in the target language.
Use the target language to discuss major topics related to the cultures of countries where the target language is spoken.
Use the target language to discuss the literary works of major authors of countries where the target language is spoken.
- Conduct research in different areas of the field of World Languages: literature, culture, pedagogy, and applied linguistics.
- Use the target language to write about major literary works in Italian, Spanish or Spanish-American literature.
- Use the target language to write about topics related to the cultures of Italy, Spain or Spanish America.
- Use the target language to analyze Italian or Spanish grammar as well as to analyze the target language structure.
