Foreign Languages - Lambuth University

Foreign Languages from Lambuth University is a Campus Bachelor Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The mission of the Department of Modern Languages is to pique students' wanderlust and set them on a path of discovery they will travel their whole lives. This path is literal (physical), because it usually involves a summer, semester or school year studying in another country. Studying another language is invariably emotional, intellectual and spiritual as well. Translingual and transcultural competence ? the ability not only to speak another language but also to understand things from another's point of view ? cultivates respect, understanding and love for the many different peoples of our world. Every new language learned, every new country visited, enriches our lives in ways we cannot anticipate beforehand. Translingual and transcultural competence is also central to our journey of self-discovery and self-definition. We can only fully understand ourselves as individuals if we understand our own culture, and we can only fully understand our own culture if we have experienced another. Students who study a foreign language will be better able to see themselves, their community and their country. They will be better-informed, more empathetic and more responsible citizens: better able to judge and shape both foreign and domestic policy. They will also be better equipped to compete in the global marketplace, whether in New York, Santiago de Chile, Paris or Memphis. The Lambuth modern language major requires that students take 21 credit hours in one language and 15 credit hours in another, along with six more hours, which may be taken in their languages of concentration or in courses related to the major outside the Department of Modern Languages. Lambuth offers courses at all levels in French, German and Spanish. At the end of their four years at Lambuth, Modern Language majors are fluent in their primary language of concentration and near-fluent in their second language. This proficiency is achieved through a variety of student-focused classroom activities, including the creation of short films or in-class improvised ?telenovelas.? All lower-level courses teach culture, and upper-level courses stress proficiency as well as extensive reading and analysis, at times centering on history, contemporary politics and economics, or the finest works of literature. In addition to courses listed in our catalog, students may elect to take special topics courses, such as The Spanish Civil War or French Film. They may also elect to earn college credit by tutoring Latinos in the Jackson-Madison County public schools. Outside the classroom, students and professors meet for a weekly mesa espa?ola, have review sessions and get-togethers at professors' homes, participate in the activities of the International Students Association, attend Immersion Weekends and study abroad. In September of 2008, students had the opportunity to attend the West Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Conference, hosted at Lambuth by the Department of Modern Languages. View more details on Lambuth University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.