MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Leonard R. Koos, Chair
Marie A. Wellington, Career Advisor– French
Vera Niebuhr, Career Advisor– German
Elizabeth F. Lewis, Career Advisor– Spanish
Faculty
Professors
James F. Gaines, French
Marie A. Wellington, French
Associate Professors
Shoukri B. Abed, Arabic
Ana Garcia Chichester, Spanish
Leonard R. Koos, French
Elizabeth F. Lewis, Spanish
Scott M. Powers, French
Jose Angel Sainz, Spanish
Federico Schneider, Italian
Assistant Professors
Brooke E. Donaldson, French
Zennia D. Hancock, Spanish
Jeremy G. Larochelle, Spanish
Jessica C. Locke, Spanish
Maria Isabel Martinez-Mira, Spanish
Marcel Rotter, German
Shara G. Voisard, Spanish
Senior Lecturer
Maria C. Riegger, Spanish
Programs in Modern Foreign Languages
Through courses in Arabic, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, the department offers students the opportunity to gain proficiency in understanding, reading, writing, and speaking one or more foreign languages. Laboratory facilities are used extensively to supplement classroom instruction.
Classes are conducted primarily in the foreign language. Through classroom instruction, individual research, and work in department sponsored language clubs, students come to know the culture of the people whose language they study. Through internships, students work directly in language-related professions. The Department of Modern Foreign Languages offers major programs in French, German, and Spanish. Students may also request a special major in Italian Studies. Courses in Arabic are currently offered at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Double majors in a foreign language and another discipline are possible. Non-majors may also take advantage of the language program.
The department provides students an opportunity to reside in campus residence areas in which the foreign language is spoken and which sponsor various inter-cultural programs each year. Currently each language area has as its resident program director a native speaker of that foreign language.
The department offers the following summer programs: Arabic language in Fes, Morocco (6 weeks), French language and culture in Paris, France (4 weeks, in collaboration with the Institut Catholique), German language and culture in Erkurt, Germany (4 weeks); Italian language and culture in Orvieto, Italy (4 weeks); and Spanish language and culture in Bilbao, Spain (5 weeks). In addition, the department cooperates with a variety of overseas study programs, advises and encourages students wishing to study abroad, and helps in planning their foreign study programs. Credits can be accepted from abroad to fulfill department requirements.
Graduates in Modern Foreign Languages may pursue careers in government or in private fields in which the knowledge of a foreign language and culture is essential, including interpreting, translating, research, social services, education, or international business.
*For information regarding General Education language requirements for students not currently majoring in Modern Foreign Languages, please see page 53 in this Catalog.
Modern Foreign Language Course Offerings
201 – World Literature in Cultural Context (3)
World literature in context—an introduction to literature from Western and non-Western perspectives. Themes and literary techniques from a variety of authors. In English. Other Modern Foreign Language courses are listed separately under a heading for each language. See: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish.