Through its courses on campus, its rich connections with nonprofit organizations in the Twin Cities, and its academic partners around the globe, the department seeks to unsettle the very concept of ?foreign? thus enabling students to fully realize the College?s mission of global citizenship.

The department offers a wide variety of language, literature, and culture courses leading to majors in French, German, and Spanish as well as an innovative interdisciplinary major in Cross-Cultural Studies. Students also have the option of pursuing less-studied languages including Norwegian, the language of Augsburg?s early history;