Welcome to the Department of Modern Languages

The program of language studies at Grove City College has been developed to enhance the communicative, cultural, and vocational benefits of language study. Thus the Department provides courses to increase language proficiency, courses on the literature of great writers, courses dealing with history and civilization, and courses to illustrate the expanding role of language in the social, political, and commercial areas of today’s world.


General Goals

Degree Offerings

Course Evaluation

General Objectives

 

 

 

 

General Goals:
To accomplish these general goals Departmental majors, minors and concentrations are designed to promote:

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Degree Offerings

The degrees and offerings are: B.A. in French and French/Secondary Education; B.A. in Spanish and Spanish/Secondary Education; and minors in Chinese, French, German, or Japanese.
 

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Course Evaluation

Proficiency evaluation takes place in each course through the use of essays, quizzes, oral reports, written examinations, daily observation, term papers, highly individualized oral sessions tailored to the needs of the individual student, etc. The program is arranged so that the courses are sufficiently stringent. The requirements seek to properly address the many facets of language proficiency. Our assessments are proficiency-based and inspired by the Provisional Proficiency Guidelines as drawn up by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Our tests allow the students’ communicative competence in all four skill areas (plus culture) to be evaluated in a wide variety of situations and modalities.

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General Objectives

The general objectives of the programs in Modern Languages are:

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© Grove City College - For questions contact Dr. Barber - Last updated September 2009