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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: Ana Alcocer (Spanish), Marta Boris Tarré (Spanish), Lori Celaya (Spanish), Irina A. Kappler-Crookston (Spanish), Ashley Kerr (Spanish), Jianhong Lu (Chinese), Shannon McGowan (Spanish), Sarah M. Nelson (French), Anne Perriguey (French), Gerd Steckel (German), Ikuyo Suzuki (Japanese), Jing Tian (Chinese), Hexian Xue (Chinese).

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. 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.

In addition to the MLC course work, language majors are required to fulfill an international experience (eight week minimum) by completing a MLC approved study abroad program or international internship or faculty-led experience or a combination of all. This experience should take place after the student has finished language study through the intermediate (200) level. The study abroad program, internship or faculty-led experience must receive prior approval from the student’s MLC advisor and/or MLC Validation Committee appointed by the chair. Shorter international experiences exceptions can be considered by MLC Validation Committee in case of extraordinary financial or family circumstances.

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), Nez Perce (NezP), Russian (Russ), Spanish (Span), and General Courses (FL).