Modern Languages Department

The department of modern languages and literatures offers students the opportunity to develop a high degree of competence in a foreign language and to examine and understand values, beliefs, and practices different from their own through the study of language, literature, and culture. Students may study intensively French, German, or Spanish, and, to a lesser degree, Chinese and Italian. The department actively encourages students to engage in collaborative scholarship with faculty members in the fields of language, literature, or culture. To facilitate the study of language in an interdisciplinary context the department participates in international studies, Latin American studies, and international management and economics. The department also participates in the interdisciplinary minor in linguistics offered at Hamline.