Background

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures offers the following majors and minors designed to develop the student's specialized knowledge of culture, literature and language.  Skills-development courses, which facilitate speaking, reading, writing and understanding of a foreign language, are offered as well as courses in comparative studies in the humanities and linguistics.  These studies relate languages and literatures to the other arts and general currents of culture and humanistic thought.

Language offerings:

Comparative Literature

The Minor in Comparative Literature offers an opportunity to study texts in a manner that transcends national and linguistic boundaries.  It enables students to develop, through their majors, a solid grounding in one particular tradition (e.g., English, Spanish, French) or one discipline (e.g., history, music) while also embracing a broader perspective through the minor.  A minor in comparative literature can can prepare a student for graduate study in comparative literature or in a specific national literary tradition or to pursue a career in translation, teaching, publishing or writing.

Foreign Languages

Similar to a major in a foreign language, a minor offers the opportunity for students to increase their proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills for a particular language while enhancing the student's understanding of the target culture and its orientation to world communication.

Linguistics

The Minor in Linguistics offers an enhanced awareness of the components, functions and interfaces of human language.  It prepares students for careers and advanced study for which such awareness is essential through coursework aligned with a student's own professional goals and intellectual interests.

Text from UTSA Undergraduate Catalog and Admissions brochures.

Degree Plans

French ~ FRN

German ~ GER

Spanish ~ SPN

Comparative Literature ~ CSH

Foreign Languages ~ FL

Linguistics ~ LNG

Russian ~ RUS

	2002 - 2004	2004 - 2006	2006 - 2008
Major - FRN
Major - GER
Major - SPN
Minor - FRN
Minor - GER
Minor - SPN
Minor - CSH
Minor - FL
Minor - LNG
Minor - RUS