World Languages (B.A.)

Program CIP Code

10.16.0101.00

Program Modality

• On-Ground

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Ancient Mediterranean Cultures Concentration

• Student can understand the main idea and some supporting details in Latin or Greek texts on a variety of topics of personal and general interest, as well as some authentic, annotated Latin or Greek texts. They can follow stories and description of some length and in various time frames and genres.
• Student can understand the main idea and some supporting details in organized speech in Latin or Greek on a variety of topics. They can follow stories and descriptions of some length and in various time frames. They can understand information presented in a variety of genres, even when something unexpected is expressed. 
• Program graduates will be able to apply linguistic and cultural knowledge to conform in many social and work-related interactions, in their acquired language as well when communicating with someone from another culture in English. graduate will demonstrate conscious awareness of significant cultural differences and attempt to adjust accordingly. 
• “Knowledge and Evidence”: Students will gain a critical awareness of chronology and types of sources available for the study of antiquity, as well as “close reading” skills.
• “Interdisciplinarity”: Students will use responsibly multiple disciplinary and extra-disciplinary approaches and multiple types of evidence for problem-solving, to recognize and generate patterns in evidence, and to think about the particular in terms of the general and vice-versa.
• “Past and Present”: Students will see the historicity, nuance, and creativity of Classical reception in different times and places, as well as the historicity of the present moment as part of the creation of potential futures.
• “intercultural Literacy”: Students will understand a variety of human experiences, value systems, and ways of organizing a society, and abilities to empathize and negotiate with other perspectives and value systems, to imagine alternate choices and norms, and to understand the complexity of consensus-building and argument across different identities and experiences.

Ancient Mediterranean Languages Concentration

• Graduates will be able to identify main ideas and supporting details on familiar and some new, concrete topics from a variety of more complex texts that have a clear, organized structure.
• Students can understand the main idea and some supporting details in Latin or Greek texts on a variety of topics of personal and general interest, as well as some authentic, annotated Latin or Greek texts. They can follow stories and descriptions of some length and in various time frames and genres.
• For Classics; Students can understand the main idea and some supporting details in organized speech in Latin or Greek on a variety of topics. They can follow stories and descriptions of some length and in various time frames. They can understand information presented in a variety of genres, even when something unexpected is expressed.
• Program graduates will be able to apply linguistic and cultural knowledge to conform in many social and work-related interactions, in their acquired language as well when communicating with someone from another culture in English. Graduates will demonstrate conscious awareness of significant cultural differences and attempt to adjust accordingly.

French Concentration

• Student will be proficient in oral and written communication in the target language. 
• Student will be able to meet or exceed the threshold of Advanced Low on the ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language) rating scale

German Concentration

• Student will be proficient in oral and written communication in the target language. 
• Student will be able to meet or exceed the threshold of Advanced Low on the ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language) rating scale

Spanish Concentration

• Student will be proficient in oral and written communication in the target language. 
• Student will be able to meet or exceed the threshold of Advanced Low on the ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language) rating scale

Curriculum

• Ancient Mediterranean Cultures Concentration   
• Ancient Mediterranean Languages Concentration  
• French and Francophone Studies Concentration   
• German Concentration   
• Spanish Concentration