The Department of Modern Languages offers instruction in American Sign Language, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Professors as well as students use the target language as much as the level of the course permits, so that students may develop communicative langauge skills .
Language study is complemented by learning about the culture in which the langauge is spoken.
To explore culture in more depth, there are courses in English on literature and civilization. This page updated January, 2000.