Degrees and Student Learning Outcomes:
Student Learning Outcomes for the French Major
The French major will be able to:
- Communicate orally in French in accordance with the criteria of ACTFL’s* Intermediate High level in speaking.
- Comprehend spoken French in accordance with the criteria of ACTFL’s Advanced Low level in listening.
- Write in French in accordance with the criteria of ACTFL’s Intermediate High level in writing.
- Read in French in accordance with the criteria of ACTFL’s Advanced Low level in reading.
- Demonstrate insightful and complex understanding of the target language culture(s) and function comfortably in a wide range of social situations in the target language environment(s)
Student Learning Outcomes for the Spanish Major
The Spanish major will be able to:
- Communicate orally entirely in target language in both everyday and professional/academic settings with a high degree of phonetic, syntactic and semantic accuracy ACTFL* advanced level).
- Comprehend complex information provided orally at the normal conversational tempo of a native speaker (ACTFL* advanced level).
- Write with proficiency to contrast, criticize, analyze, defend opinions, and advance and support a thesis (ACTFL advanced level).
- Comprehend and interpret challenging and diverse reading material in the target language (ACTFL advanced level).
- Demonstrate insightful and complex understanding of the target language culture(s) and function comfortably in a wide range of social situations in the target language environment(s).
* ACTFL refers to the “American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages” Proficiency Guidelines.