懷俄明大學

The Modern and Classical Languages department offers work leading to the B.A. degree with majors and minors in French, German, and Spanish. A minor is offered in Classical Civilizations, Chinese, Latin and Japanese.

All candidates for the B.A. and B.S. degree in the College of Arts and Sciences who matriculated before Fall 2015 are required to complete the equivalent of 8 semester hours of work in a single modern or classical language. Students with prior exposure to the language may be granted college credit after taking an online examination administered by the department; students must take this examination before completing registration for a language course (for regulations governing credit by examination, refer to Credit Available to Undergraduate Students in this bulletin). An advanced placement, AP, examination in the language with a score of 4 or higher satisfies the language requirement in most languages, as do CLEP and IB scores.

To include a language option in the humanities/fine arts interdisciplinary program, students must complete at least 12 hours above the 2030 level. Students completing an undergraduate major in our department will meet the following learning goals:

1. attain proficiency in another language in all four of the basic skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing);
2. gain understanding of other cultures; and
3. develop skills in research critical thinking, analysis, and writing on subjects appropriate to the field of study.

Students will meet the following learning outcomes to:

1. demonstrate proficiency in conversation;
2. demonstrate reading comprehension of texts written in the language;
3. produce grammatical, idiomatic compositions in the target language;
4. gain essential knowledge about the history, traditions, customs, and ways of thinking of at least one other culture;
5. demonstrate understanding of works of literature read in the original language; and
6. produce well-reasoned and clearly articulate research papers on subjects appropriate to their field.