Courses
Instructors have the authority to determine whether students possess the appropriate level of foreign language proficiency for enrollment in any of our courses.
- You are required to enroll in the most advanced language course for which you qualify, based on either prior study or placement results.
- Native speakers of a language are not permitted to take courses for credit in that language.
- You should not register for courses below you level of proficiency, as determined by instructors or through a placement examination.
For assistance in selecting the appropriate course level, please reach out to the Modern Languages and Cultures department.
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Study Languages Abroad
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
–Mark Twain
You will have the opportunity to improve your language skills through the departments total immersion study abroad courses:
- French Conversation I, Paris, France: January and June
- Italian Conversation I, Florence, Italy: January and June
- Japanese Conversation I, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan: June
- Mandarin Chinese Conversation I, Shanghai, China: June
- Spanish Conversation I, Mexico City, Mexico: January
- Spanish Conversation I, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: June
If you are interested in our study abroad courses, come to the Modern Languages and Cultures office (Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B831) or visit Study Abroad.