Global Languages and Cultures Department

Professors: Lisa Algazi Marcus, Didier Course, Scott Pincikowski, Donald Wright (chair), Maria Griselda Zuffi

Professor Emerita: Roser Caminals-Heath

Assistant Professor: Robert Casas Roige

Assistant Professor Emerita: Loretta M. Bassler

The Department of Global Languages and Cultures offers French, Spanish, German, Latin American Studies and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies majors. The department also offers minors in French, German, Spanish and Middle Eastern Studies.

Unless a student plans to teach or continue with graduate studies, the department encourages double majors in languages and another discipline.

Department offerings include, in addition to traditional language and literature courses, introduction to translation and interpretation, cross-cultural courses, language skills for the world of work and internships. Chapters of national honor societies for French and Spanish students have been established on campus.

Language Residences: As part of its educational program, the department operates three small residences—a French, a Spanish and a German house, each under the leadership of a resident director who is an assistant in the department and a native speaker of the language. While in residence, the students are expected to speak French, Spanish or German exclusively. 

Study Abroad: The department requires students to spend a semester studying abroad through Hood’s affiliation with programs in Seville, Spain; Munich and Mainz, Germany; Egypt; Jordan; and Toulouse, Nice and Paris, France, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico. Language majors who do not go abroad at least one semester will spend two years in a language house on campus.

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