Welcome to the Department of Modern Languages

The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies promotes the study and teaching of second languages and the study of the literatures and cultures produced by the peoples of those languages.

The Department offers both general introductions to these languages and cultures as well as advanced study for the training of teachers, scholars, and other professionals. The Department also serves as a catalyst for the creation of community events and activities to promote cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary understanding, communication, and analysis.

The Department fosters the intellectual advancement of its teaching faculty by enabling the pursuit of scholarly goals.

See the World, Get College Credit

The Department of Modern Languages offers students several opportunities to experience other languages and cultures firsthand. Study tours to Andalucia (Spain), Paris and Marseilles (France) and Vienna and Berlin (Germany) give students the chance to hone their language skills and learn about the cultures and history of Europe.

A study tour is a credit-bearing course in which the majority of the academic work is accomplished through group study and travel outside the UCO campus. It provides a group of students with an applied, supervised experience at an off campus location. These tours are designed to enhance the student's classroom knowledge of an academic discipline(s) through first-hand exposure. Once on site, travel during the study tour is an integral part of the learning process.

Ask your professor for more information on study tours.

Enhance Your Spanish Skills at Casa Hispana

The Spanish Learning Community, Casa Hispana, is a new learning community that both incoming and returning students can join.  Members will be living in a tight-knit community that will allow them to practice their Spanish language skills as well as explore the UCO campus, Spanish-speaking cultures, and study abroad opportunities. 16- 24 qualified new and upper-class students will be admitted to join this community.

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Make Yourself More Marketable with an Asian Studies Minor

UCO's Asian Studies Minor brings together a foundation in an Asian language and upper-division classes on important topics - taught in English. Future employers see your major and your minor - so they will know that you have a much broader range than just one field.  Future graduate programs see your curiosity and ambition in your having a major and a minor - and they might be able to fund Study Abroad in an Asian country. 

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