Students can choose to major or minor in French, German, Spanish, or Comparative Cultures and Literary Studies. Courses are also offered in Chinese, Italian, and Japanese.
All students are required to take a language as part of the core curriculum. Students who choose to major or minor in a language complete courses in composition and conversation, culture and civilization, business, literature, and/or literature in English translation. Students also have the option to combine a modern languages major with an interdisciplinary minor such as Asian studies, medieval studies, gender studies, Italian studies, or Latin American and Latino studies.
Facilities
Language learning at Loyola is enhanced by a state-of-the-art digital Language Learning Center which houses two labs with a total of 54 carrels for accessing computer-based language learning technology (audio, CD-ROM, and video). The Center also boasts a projection room, a video editing studio, and a recording studio. The Center is connected via satellite to television programs broadcast from Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Study Abroad
An immersion experience is one of the most effective ways of consolidating your communicative, cultural, and intellectual aspects of language study. To perfect your language skills and deepen your knowledge and appreciation of related foreign cultures, you will be encouraged to spend a year, a semester, or a summer abroad in one of Loyola's study abroad programs or at one of the various universities throughout the world affiliated with Loyola.
Loyola has programs in Melbourne, Australia; Leuven, Belgium; Beijing, China; San Salvador, El Salvador; Newcastle, England; Paris, France; Cork, Ireland; Rome, Italy; Auckland, New Zealand; Alcalá, Spain; and Bangkok, Thailand. Loyola is affiliated with universities in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; La Rochelle, France; Montpellier, France; Koblenz, Germany; Wernigerode, Germany; Osaka, Japan; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Barcelona, Spain. Summer study in France is also sponsored by the department.