The Department of Modern Languages aims, in its elementary and intermediate courses, to develop students' linguistic ability and understanding of a foreign culture and to introduce them to its literature. More advanced courses seek to perfect the use of the oral and written language, to study foreign societies and cultures, and to explore the foreign literature in order to develop faculties of analysis and aesthetic judgment.

Majors should enrich their studies with courses in other literatures and relevant languages, European history and thought, and the fine arts and music. Majors interested in international affairs, business or diplomacy should choose appropriate courses from the departments of economics and business administration, history and politics. Students planning to pursue graduate study are especially advised to take courses in a second foreign language, world literature, and history, as appropriate. Similarly, students with international interests who are majors in other departments should formulate a minor in French, Spanish, or German to suit their goals. The varied activities of the language clubs add to the department's offerings.

Mail		Department of Modern Languages Ursinus College 601 E. Main Street P.O. Box 1000 Collegeville, PA 19426-1000
E-mail		ykennon@ursinus.edu
Telephone		(610) 409-3594 3000 x2431
Fax		(610) 409-3616