Global Languages and Cultures Department

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

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: Iberian and Latin American Cultural Studies, and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies majors. The department also offers minors in French, German, Middle Eastern Studies, Spanish: Iberian and Latin American Cultural 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.

Undergraduate Programs Offered:

• Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Major (B.A.)
• French Major (B.A.)
• Spanish: Iberian and Latin American Cultural Studies Major (B.A.)
• Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Minor 
• French Minor
• German Minor
• Spanish: Iberian and Latin American Cultural Studies Minor

Certificates in Linguistics and Cultural Competency:

• Intermediate Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Certificate

• Advanced Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Certificate
• Intermediate French and Francophone Studies Certificate
• Advanced French and Francophone Studies Certificate
• Intermediate German Certificate
• Advanced German Certificate
• Intermediate Spanish and Latin American Studies Certificate
• Advanced Spanish and Latin American Studies Certificate