The Department of Foreign Languages offers majors in five of the most useful and widely spoken languages in the world: Chinese and Japanese French, German and Spanish. In addition to our majors and minors in these languages, the department offers minor programs in Italian and Russian as well as language and culture courses in Portuguese, Hebrew, Punjabi, Vietnamese, Greek and Latin. Finally we connect in time with our classical traditions through our offerings in Greek and Latin.
In association with the International Programs of the CSU system, our department offers you the opportunity to study abroad. The department also has the means to help qualified students finance their studies with generous stipends from our Meta Marion Goldsmith Scholarship Fund.
To serve the needs of high schools and community colleges in our area, we offer preparation for the single subject credential in French and Spanish.
Teaching is generally the career of choice for most of our graduates, but they also follow career paths leading to employment as translators and interpreters; civil servants for local, state and federal agencies; agents for tourism and the leisure service industry; reporters, journalists, broadcasters and publishers for the mass media and communications industry, and myriad other occupations in national and international business and finance.
Lower division requirements include any elementary level language series (1A-B), any intermediate level language series (25A-B), and one year of a second foreign language, ancient or modern.
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