Whether as a major or a minor program, language study increases your marketability and broadens your horizons. Not only will you become proficient in another language, but you will also become sensitized to other cultures (their history, literature, economy, beliefs, etc.).

Through language study you will:

• Learn and use cross-cultural communication skills
• Develop a better understanding of other people and different cultures
• Experience another culture's artistic, literary, socio-political, and historical contributions that have changed and continue to change the world
• Appreciate and celebrate world diversity
• Improve your skills in your native language
• Understand more fully your place, and your native culture's place, on a global scale