Careers
We aim to expand the range of our students’ intellect and their cultural competency while fostering an environment of inclusive academic excellence and preparing them for their career goals.
Typically, our students combine a Major in French or Spanish, or a Minor in Chinese, French, Japanese or Spanish, with a Bachelor of Arts in another field.
Career opportunities involving modern languages are ever expanding. Openings exist in the following areas:
- engineering
- foreign trade
- foreign service
- international business
- media
- translation and interpretation
- international law
- nonprofit organizations
- librarianship
- military
- social work
- immigration law
- psychology
- teaching
- tourism industry
Additionally, mastery of a modern language is a requirement for many graduate programs across various disciplines.
Hear From Our Alumni
Elena Pendleton
" I am currently a teacher in Hawai'i. Studying Chinese taught me valuable life skills. I originally took Mandarin because it is my mother’s first language, and I wanted to learn more so that I could speak it with her and my relatives in Taiwan. The courses taught me important skills in Mandarin such as listening, speaking, reading and writing and I learned useful vocabulary I can use in the real world. Studying a language taught me better study skills, organization tactics and time management."
BA English/Creative Writing, minor Chinese '19