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Your key to opportunities, connections, deeper understanding and a wider world view.Studying Spanish at Newman University can profoundly affect your academic career and future as it transforms your perspective and builds communicative skills. The Spanish minor can complement your major course of study, making you more marketable to potential employers. It allows you to make connections to speakers of other languages, deepening your understanding and giving you a wider worldview. The Foreign Language Department offers challenging and exciting summer study abroad programs in Latin America and Spain that bridge academic study and real world exper ience, helping you to live and practice what you learn in the classroom as you develop an international and intercultural perspective.
Whether on-campus or on a study abroad program, as you progress through Spanish courses at Newman University, you will:
- Learn to read, write understand and speak the language
- Become more linguistically aware
- Develop insight into language-learning process
- Increase cross-cultural perspective
- Increase empathy for immigrants learning English
- Develop communication strategies
- View people, literature and art in historical and cultural context
- Examine issues related to language acquisition, immigration and cultural adaptation
- Serve members of Spanish-speaking community, locally and/or abroad
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