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Modern Languages and Literatures

Degree

Bachelor of Arts, Major, Minor

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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures stresses proficiency in all language skills as well as the development of cultural awareness to prepare students for careers in business, communication, education, government, health sciences, social work, translation and interpreting, and related professions. 

What You'll Learn and Do

Prepare for the future

The Department of Modern Languages (MLL) offers courses in the prominent modern languages of the world, including Chinese, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. As an MLL major, you will prepare yourself for a life and career in a progressively global world.

Learn more than just grammar

While MLL students will engage in rigorous coursework that ensures an understanding of grammatical and syntactical rules, they will also become acquainted with the life, customs, and cultural traditions where the language is spoken.

Put your education to use

Through a program that emphasizes reading, listening, speaking, and writing, students will be prepared to use the skills and knowledge acquired in both practical and intellectual.

Continue your studies

Students in the Modern Languages and Literatures program will be equipped with the expertise necessary to succeed in graduate studies and professional opportunities. Graduates can go on to participate in international graduate and fellowship programs.

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Course Requirements

French, German, Italian and Spanish majors and minors available.

Contact Us

Undergraduate Admission
admis@fairfield.edu
(203) 254-4100

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Fairfield supports the scholarly success and intellectual growth of our students by providing various resources on campus including the Science Center, Writing Center, DiMenna-Nyselius Library, and more.

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  • Pessoa Grant for Advanced Language in Portuguese
  • Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

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Frequently Asked Questions

All new students, both incoming first-year and transfer, with academic or life experience in one of the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish, should take the online WebCAPE Placement Exam before beginning classes at 天美传媒视频无限制观看.

Since there is no language placement exam in Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Latin, or Classical Greek, all new students, both incoming first-year and transfer, with academic or life experience in these languages, should follow the advice given by the representative faculty from the Department in Modern Languages and Literatures or Classical Studies at Orientation.

You are free to start a new language offered at 天美传媒视频无限制观看: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Classical Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, whether or not you have already studied one or more of these modern or classical languages. If you are starting a new language at 天美传媒视频无限制观看, you do not and should not take the placement test in this new language. Instead, please register for the elementary level 1110 (e.g. CHIN 1110) of that language.

If you are a high school student, you should take the language placement exam in the spring of your senior year of high school before arriving at Fairfield. Please check your Orientation materials for specific dates for taking the Placement Exam.

Every undergraduate student at 天美传媒视频无限制观看, beginning with the Class of 2023, must complete one semester of a language as part of the Magis Core. Depending on one’s program of study, the student will also be required to complete a second semester of that same language OR a second mathematics course. Because 天美传媒视频无限制观看 is committed to each student being exposed to other cultures/traditions as part of a liberal arts education formation, there will be no place-outs of the one-semester language requirement.

Students who have developed proficiency in one language are strongly encouraged to consider taking advanced classes in that language or starting a new language.

Modern Languages and Literatures majors often double major or minor in Communication, English, International Business, International Studies, or Politics as well as other areas of study. Foreign Language Minors often major in the preceding disciplines or Accounting, Art History, Biology, Marketing, Mathematics, Psychology, as well as other fields. Certain languages are closely connected with areas of study offered in interdisciplinary Minors and are likely to be either required or approved electives. For example, a student interested in Asian Studies will want to consider starting Chinese and/or Japanese; a student interested in Italian Studies, Italian; a student interested in Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS), Portuguese, French, or Spanish; a student interested in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, Russian. The U.S. Government treats Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian—as Critical Languages important to strategic interests, and scholarships may be available for immersion study in these languages. Any of the 12 foreign languages offered at Fairfield could be included in an individually designed major.

For students of Latin and Classical Greek, the Classical Studies Program similarly offers a minor in Classical Studies as well as a full major through the individually designed major.

Language placement tests for 天美传媒视频无限制观看 students are free of charge.

The current policy specifies that only the first score earned from one of our online placement tests will count for that language unless a suitable rationale for retaking the test is accepted by the Chair or members of the language placement team.

After attending a full week of classes, if you still think you want to change the level within the language you are taking, you must discuss it with the instructor first and then get approval from the Department Chair.

If you have previous academic or life experience in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish, write to languageplacement@fairfield.edu. If you want to continue your study in Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese, languages for which there is no placement exam, you can contact the Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures for more information. Students who are starting to learn a new language do not need to take the Placement Exam in this new language.

Students who have previous academic or life experience in Latin or Greek will be placed according to their background and information obtained on the Academic Interest Questionnaire by a faculty member in the Classical Studies program.

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