FACULTY:  Robert Baah, Kathryn Bartholomew, Michelle Beauclair, Owen Ewald, Katya Nemtchinova, Eric Vogt, Michael Ziemann

The Department of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics seeks to help students

• Understand and appreciate the rich diversity of world languages and cultures, both ancient and modern.
• Be a blessing as a stranger in another land and be hospitable to strangers in one’s own land.
• Reach stated levels of language proficiency, as defined by national standards.

Admission to the Major or Minor

Applicants for a major or minor within the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Lingusitics must have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher in all college work applicable to the B.A. degree and a 2.5 GPA in 10 credits of coursework at SPU in foreign languages and literatures, Linguistics, and/or European or Latin American Studies.

A student must complete the major or minor requirements in effect when the student is admitted to the major or minor.

European Studies: Europe Major
A European Studies/Europe major requires a minimum of 51 credits, which include the 19 base course credits, 5 credits of UCOR 2000/USCH 1112, 17 credits of electives and 10 credits of HIS/POL electives. Of the 51 credits, 25 must be upper-division.

Students must be proficient in a European language at the intermediate level (through 2103 for most languages, 3300 for Russian).   

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