34 Modern Languages Preparatory Programs

The Associate in Arts Degree in Vietnamese (AA) provides students with fundamental language skills designed to develop students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing from the beginning level to intermediate proficiency, where students can function comfortably and effectively in a variety of Vietnamese-speaking environments, such as with family, when traveling, at a job, and/or in a career.

The Associate of Arts (DTA) degree with Specialization in World Languages provides the required preparation for successful transfer into a bachelor's degree program in World Languages at the Junior level. The Associate of Arts (DTA) degree is a Direct Transfer Agreement (DTA) degree. The following course set fulfills the requirement of the Specialization in World Languages for the Associate of Arts (DTA) Degree. This specialization enables students to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in multiple languages, and to analyze, examine and explore oral and written communication using a variety of topics through authentic materials, in all major time frames.

Our approach is a communicative one; we emphasize proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in every course. In addition to our focus on communication in the target language, our courses provide students with the strong grammatical base necessary to progress beyond the elementary level. Moreover, as our department name suggests, cultural instruction is a cornerstone of each and every course we teach. Beyond language classes, we also offer courses that focus on world cultures. Outside of the classroom, our department is active in advising various foreign language student groups.

The Associate of Arts in World Language Degree develops students’ critical thinking, analytical, and communicative skills while providing a basis for understanding cultures and languages, thus preparing graduates for many careers in a multicultural world where communication is vital in our growing global interdependence and technological connectivity.

The Diploma in Modern Languages is designed for students who want to build or improve their language skills while gaining cultural knowledge. The program offers a flexible approach, allowing students ...

Live it and learn it! That’s our mantra in the Franklin College Department of Modern Languages. Experience language, culture, literature, cinema, and art both inside and outside the classroom with other students and faculty who are passionate about them. Visit museums, attend Fiesta Indianapolis, study abroad in Spain, Cuba, or France, live in the Modern Language House, conduct undergraduate research, and more. Develop your language skills, engage in critical thinking, and build cultural awareness, all of which are essential tools for caring and committed local, national, and global citizenship.

Study in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures aims to deepen the understanding of other languages and cultures and is characterized by its immersive approach. Students may major or minor in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. An innovative curriculum of introductory courses in American Sign Language (ASL) is also offered.

In MCC’s Modern Languages program, you will choose from French, German, and Spanish courses. In addition to fundamental communication skills, you will learn about culture, history, and contemporary issues in countries where these languages are spoken.

The associate degree program in Modern Languages is designed to help students build a solid foundation in language skills, cultural understanding, and communication. It offers a chance to learn one or...

This One-Year program in Norwegian Language and Society is a perfect start if you are qualified for and want to continue at one of the Three-Year bachelor's degrees in Engineering or the Two-Year Master's degree program in Integrated Building Technology at the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology in Narvik.

A multi-semester Mandarin program designed for global learners and Belizean nationals, with a cultural emphasis on Taiwan and Asia-Pacific. Proficiency levels increase over five semesters.

Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is a multidisciplinary field group encompassing curriculum and programing in both languages and cultures and in writing. We invite students to see languages and literacies as social practices. Based on the assumption that communication is always situated, the field group-across its domains of interdisciplinary expertise-engages students to speak, write, and read within communities of practice as co-producers of knowledges. In praxis- and community-based courses in languages, writing, and teaching, students investigate the cultural production, circulation, and uses of communicative practices, exploring how language shapes and is shaped by its diverse practitioners. Students are also equipped with skills to participate meaningfully in the intellectual life of the college and beyond and to reflect critically on the ways in which language mediates identity, power, and culture.

Discover how people who are fluent in multiple languages and can empathize with different cultural viewpoints are able to build bridges between people, cultures and nations. At Dawson, you can choose from a wide selection of languages: Spanish, Italian, German, Mandarin (Chinese), Hebrew and Greek. In addition, you will be introduced to a variety of cultural, historical and linguistic aspects of those languages. This profile offers exciting learning opportunities, such as a student exchange trip to Germany, an internship in Spain and one-on-one time with German and Spanish language assistants. Students may pursue the German language diploma (DSD I), a DELE Spanish Language Certificate, a CILS Italian Language Certificate or the Certificate in Hellenic Studies.

A World Languages minor would be especially attractive to students who enjoy studying foreign languages. Students who have had four or five years of foreign language in high school often take the AP or CLEP exam, receive 9-12 credits through the 201 or 202 level, and then decide they would like to continue their foreign language experience. By having the option of a World Languages minor, instead of only a Spanish minor or a French Cultural Studies or Italian Cultural Studies minor, students might choose to take a second, and even a third, foreign language, all of which place a strong emphasis on culture and oral communication skills.

The Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication (CLIC) focuses on developing Rice students' communicative, interactional, and intercultural abilities and knowledge in non-native and heritage languages. Thus, CLIC seeks to provide a broad and critical educational experience that promotes multilingualism and helps students become culturally competent and interact successfully, appropriately, and respectfully with people from different countries and sociocultural backgrounds.