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Modern Languages & Cultures

Modern Languages & Cultures Undergraduate Curricular Requirements

French (B.A.)

Modern Language Business (B.A.)

Spanish (B.A.)

Modern Languages & Cultures Academic Minor Requirements

Asian Studies Minor

French Minor

German Minor

Spanish Minor

Irina A. Kappler-Crookston, Dept. Chair (302Admin. Bldg. 83844-3174 phone 208/885-6179; modlang@uidaho.edu). Faculty: Anibel Alcocer (Spanish), Marta Boris (Spanish), Lori Celaya (Spanish), Irina A. Kappler-Crookston (Spanish), Jianhong Lu (Chinese), Shannon McGowan (Spanish), Sarah M. Nelson (French), Anne Perriguey (French), Gerd Steckel (German), Ikuyo Suzuki (Japanese).

Students who take modern language literature and culture courses to complete a MLC major or minor will:

  • Gain a deeper understanding of a variety of cultures, including their own;
  • Become highly competitive in the international and domestic workforce;
  • Increase their critical thinking and communication skills;
  • Understand and make connections within the interdependent world
  • And become engaged world citizens.  

As a leading center for the study of languages and cultures in the state, the department exercises a statewide role in preparing students for careers using a second language and for graduate study in literary and cultural studies, languages and linguistics, international business and politics, law, education, and medicine. Likewise the department plays a statewide and regional role in the training of language teachers for the secondary schools. In addition, the Modern Language curriculum prepares its graduates to enter business, government, and public sector careers in which a second or third language is useful or required. In this regard, the department serves a growing number of double majors and academic minors who choose to combine the formal study of a language in our department with another field related to the student’s other career or professional interests.

Language majors are required to spend a semester or year studying abroad with an international exchange program. Modern language faculty advisors and the staff of the UI International Programs Office will gladly assist students in planning a study abroad experience.

If a student has already studied a language in high school, he or she may be eligible to receive vertically-related course credits simply by completing a more advanced course at UI.

Courses

See the course description section for courses in Arabic (Arbc), Chinese (Chin), English (FLEN), French (Fren), German (Germ), Japanese (Japn), Latin (Latn), Nez Perce (NezP), Russian (Russ), and Spanish (Span), and General Courses (FL).