Master of Arts in Romance Languages
with concentrations in French and Spanish

Bachelor of Arts
Spanish
French and Francophone Studies

Bachelor of Science in Education (K-12 licensure)
Spanish
French and Francophone Studies

Minors in Chinese, French, German, Spanish
and TESL/Applied Linguistics

Courses in: Arabic, Japanese, Russian,
Latin, Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew
 

Department Chair: Dr. Richard Carp

Graduate Program Director: Dr. Beverly Moser

Administrative Secretary: Ms. Darlene Ruppert
 

Welcome to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures!
 

     The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (DFLL) at Appalachian offers a broad spectrum of languages and cultures, with programs and courses in seven language areas:  Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin,  Russian, Spanish, and TESL/Linguistics.  With the Department of Philosophy and Religion, we also support Hebrew and Greek.  The department, with faculty from five continents, literally embodies the diverse, interdisciplinary, multicultural world of the 21st century.

    Our courses and programs offer connections to other cultures through language and literature, in theory and in practice, in the classroom and in-country with the goal that our students engage freely and function fully in those communities.  We explore many areas (such as film, literature, culture, and language) sometimes in English as well as, of course, in the languages we teach.  We hope our students develop a life-long appreciation and understanding of the ways in which people of other cultures live, think, and communicate.   Indeed, we believe that the teaching and study of foreign languages is essential for “building a curriculum of world citizenship”.¹   As a result, we are proud of our contribution to the education of thousands of Appalachian students who study language as a requirement of the Bachelor of Arts degree in all departments, as well as of the language majors and minors who study intensively with us.

     Our faculty believe that the knowledge we share with our students is fundamental for understanding and communicating in the multi-lingual and multicultural world around us, enabling students to explore its stories and participate in creating its future.  In other words, studying foreign languages, the literatures written in them, and the cultures where they thrive, engages people in important conversations we can join in no other way.  Come join us!

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¹ Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity. A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997) 70.
 

Policy Documents

Mission Statement