The Department of Modern Languages is the university's cultural crossroads, an important center of world language acquisition and education in world cultures and literature. We offer programs in eleven languages:
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Bachelor's programs in: French, German, and Spanish;
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Master's degrees in: French, German, and Spanish with concentrations in Literature, Language Acquisition, and Language Acquisition with a Graduate Certificate leading to K-12 teaching certification in the state of Kansas;
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Six minors in: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, we encourage students to consider secondary majors in International Studies or Latin American Studies or a minor in East Asian Studies, or work in African Studies, to complement their curriculum. For information about these programs, please contact Dr. Bradley Shaw, Associate Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages, and Director, International and Area Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, or the program director in other area studies that interest you (David Graff for East Asian Studies, or the leaders in African Studies);
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Courses in: Arabic, Czech, Italian, Latin, and Swahili.
With a staff of approximately 45 faculty and graduate teaching assistants. We hail from 20 different countries, from Peru to China, from Japan to Iraq, and foster international understanding and good will for the rest of the campus. Since 1976 the Department has been the home to the eminent international scholarly journal, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature.
The Department has taken a leadership role on such critical international initiatives as the rebuilding of the English Departments at Kabul and Balkh University in Afghanistan. Here at home we are expanding our programs to include a translation and interpreting certificate in several languages.
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