Undergraduate Program
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is pleased to offer undergraduate degree programs leading to a B.A. in Foreign Languages with concentrations in French, Spanish or two languages. Students may complete a foreign language major with only 30 hours of intermediate and advanced coursework. For students considering a career in secondary education, the DFLL offers the only NCATE/ACTFL accredited program in the state for licensure majors in Spanish or French. A foreign language minor requires only 18 hours of study in a language, including 100-level courses. Minors are available in Classics, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. Basic language courses are also offered in Arabic. On the Gulf Coast campus, Spanish language instruction is available through the 300-level. Students with previous language experience (high school study, heritage speakers, experience abroad) are encouraged to begin at higher levels, as they may receive academic credit for lower level language courses through examination. Students seeking to fulfill the language requirement for a B.A. degree are likewise encouraged to begin at higher levels if they have studied a language in high school; this will significantly reduce the hours needed to satisfy the requirement, which is not twelve hours of language study but rather "completion of 202 or the equivalent."