Languages at Truman
Regardless of your major, being proficient in a foreign language can create more career opportunities. Whether you want to study abroad, teach, pursue government work, or conduct international business, you can give yourself an edge by building a foreign language into your studies.
Boost Your Language Skills
At Truman, you can take classes in an area that interests you or add a foreign language minor to any major. Check out some of your options:
Majors
- Classics Major (Latin, Greek)
- Modern Language Major (French, German, Spanish)
- Interdisciplinary Studies Major (Design your own major)
Minors
- Chinese Minor
- French Minor
- German Minor
- Greek Minor
- Italian Studies Minor
- Japanese Minor
- Latin Minor
- Spanish Minor
- Spanish Minor for the Professions
Interdisciplinary Minors
More Opportunities to Enhance Your Language Skills
Study Abroad
Hone your language skills and broaden your cultural awareness through one of the many study-abroad programs available at Truman.
Special Housing Option
The Romance Languages Community is one of the unique living-learning communities offered as a housing option. It consists of first-year and upper-division students who have a strong interest in Romance Language courses offered at Truman. Residents have the opportunity to form close connections with Romance Language faculty and practice their language skills in an informal, pseudo-immersion setting.
Taiwan Connect Program
Truman students can teach English to Chinese-speaking middle-school students in Taiwan through this video-chat program.
Student Organizations
Several students groups provide opportunities for you to practice your language skills including Club Ã, a Spanish speaking organization; International Club; Japanese Language Exchange Group; Namaste Nepal; Society of Sino-American Studies; United Speakers-Hablantes, and other student organizations.
