About World Languages and Cultures

The Department of World Languages and Cultures offers majors in French, German, and Spanish, an interdisciplinary major in Global Studies, an interdisciplinary minor in Latin American and Latinx Studies, a Master of Arts in Teaching Spanish, and the Internal Certificate in Spanish for Health Professionals. Our graduates pursue further studies and a wide variety of careers in business, law, medicine, translation, education, and more. We are the only public university in New Jersey south of New Brunswick that offers majors in all three of these languages.

A French, German, or Spanish minor can enhance almost any major, adding language skills and the other benefits of a language major to a degree in another field.

Students may obtain teaching certification in French, German, or Spanish through the Teaching Program. Undergraduates in Spanish may also enter the Master of Arts in Teaching Spanish through the dual degree program in their junior year.

The Benefits of Learning a New Language and Experiencing Cultures

Students majoring in  French, German, and/or Spanish develop an understanding of another culture, a heightened understanding of how languages function and how they shape our minds and our world, and an ability to speak, read, write, and understand a language with millions of speakers and a vital social and economic role in the increasingly globalized world and the increasingly multi-cultural United States.