Welcome

The study of foreign languages is uniquely liberating. As you master a new language, you mature into a new person rooted in your own culture but alive to new ways of thinking, feeling and acting. Students of French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish become citizens of the larger world in which we live. The ability to communicate with people from other cultures is the mark of an educated person. Today that skill is even more critical. Most students who major or minor in Modern Foreign Languages do so for two reasons: they want to immerse themselves in a new language to broaden their own perspectives and to equip themselves with the language skills they will need should they decide to study abroad during their undergraduate careers, or they appreciate the practicality of becoming conversant in another tongue. Our graduates have gone on to careers in education, social services, and international business, fields in which their mastery of another language has proven valuable.

Our students can elect to live in the Modern Foreign Languages House. Students interested in study abroad can take advantage of programs in more than 20 countries. Of particular note are Ohio Wesleyan's directed programs in Cuernavaca and Salamanca for Spanish majors, and a program in Paris for students of French. Students of German may study in Freiburg, Munich, Heidelberg, or Hamburg. Ohio Wesleyan students can also earn credit for overseas programs sponsored by the Great Lakes College Association as well as by other universities.

Students in our department benefit from Ohio Wesleyan's liberal arts curriculum which exposes them to a range of inquiry covering the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the arts. As they come to know more about other cultures, so do they learn more about their own, and, at the same time, sharpen critically important skills in reading, writing and thinking.

Department of Modern Foreign Languages
212 University Hall
Delaware, Ohio 43015
Phone: 740-368-3667
Fax: 740-368-3699