Information on Spanish majors and minors here.

Minoring in a foreign language provides majors in all fields with valuable ability to communicate in a second language, to understand another culture, and to contribute to the world community at large. The French and Italian minors are particularly geared toward international experiences, and the majority of students in these programs travel to France or Italy as part of their course of study.

While gaining familiarity with the three major components of human activity among specific nations or peoples--language, literature, and culture--language minors are given the opportunity to develop critical thinking, so as to be able to understand, judge, and enjoy the accomplishments of some of the greatest geniuses the world has ever seen. The rich literary and artistic traditions of neo-Latin languages are studied not only for their universal value and their relationship to the literary movements of the Western tradition, but also as unique expressions of the social, political, and economic conditions peculiar to each nation.