Languages

    College of Arts and Sciences and Languages Major Undergraduate Admission Requirements

    A minimum of 26 credit hours; 23 credit hours must be in courses acceptable toward graduation.

    A cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 on all work.

    • Transfer students must have a 2.0 transfer GPA.
    • Continuing UNM students must have a 2.00 institutional GPA.

    Demonstrated academic achievement by satisfying the following:

    • Completion of the University Speaking and Writing Core.
    • Completion of the University Mathematics Core.
    • Completion of the University Foreign Language Core.

    Completion of Languages program admission coursework with grade of "C" or better:

    • 102 in FREN, SPAN, GRMN, ITAL, GREK, LATN, PORT, RUSS, CHIN, JAPN, or ARAB.

    Undergraduate Program

    Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr., Oretga Hall 351C
    lfgarcia@unm.edu

    This interdisciplinary major offered through the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese can be taken through one of two options.

    Option A requires 42 credit hours of course work; students electing to take Option A do not need a minor or a second major. Option B requires 24 credit hours of course work; students electing to take Option B need a minor or a second major.

      Option A Credit Hours
      Requirements: 42 credit hours of course work, to be distributed as follows:  
    1. LATN or GREK 101 3
    2. MLNG 101 or LING 301 3
    3. Nine hours of course work above 300 in each of two of the following languages: 18
      Arabic, Chinese (200-level or above), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian (200-level or above) and Spanish  
    4. Six credit hours of lower-division course work in a language other than the two counted under category 3 above (including Navajo, Signed Language or Swahili) 6
    5. Twelve additional credit hours of course work either in Linguistics, the languages chosen under categories 1 or 3 (upper-division only), or 4 (lower-division possible), or English courses such as History of the English Language, Old English, or COMP 222 or 480 (but not both) 12
      Option B  
      A minor or a second major is necessary for Option B  
      Requirements: 24 credit hours of course work, to be distributed as follows:  
    1. LATN or GREK 101 3
    2. MLNG 101 or LING 301 3
    3. Nine credit hours of course work above 300 in each of the two of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (200-level or above), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian (200-level or above) and Spanish. COMP 222 or 480 (but not both) 18


    Minor Study Requirements

    Nine credit hours of courses above 300 in each of two languages for a total of 18 credit hours.


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