Languages

Undergraduate Program

Stephen Bishop, Ortega Hall 323C, (505) 277-6344
sbishop@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  
  Requirements: 42 hours of course work, to be distributed as follows:  
1. LATN or GREK 101 3 hours
2. MLNG 101 or LING 301 3 hours
3. Nine hours of course work above 300 in each of two of the following languages: 18 hours
  Chinese (200 or above), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian (200 or above) and Spanish  
4. Six 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 hours
5. Twelve additional 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 hours
  Option B  
  A minor or a second major is necessary for Option B  
  Requirements: 24 hours of course work, to be distributed as follows:  
1. LATN or GREK 101 3 hours
2. MLNG 101 or LING 301 3 hours
3. Nine hours of course work above 300 in each of the two of the following languages: Chinese (200 or above), French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian (200 or above) and Spanish. COMP 222 or 480 (but not both) 18 hours


Minor Study Requirements

Nine hours of courses above 300 in each of two languages (18 hours).


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