Union University
Union University Dept of Language

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About Us

Welcome to the Department of Language at Union University!

Learning another language takes time and dedication but brings with it abundant reward. Knowing another language is an asset in any career field--including business, medicine, social work, missions, education, translation and the fine arts.

Learning another language also opens doors to personal enrichment, as you begin to understand another culture (and perhaps yourself) more and more intimately. You can travel beyond the popular tourist destinations. You can read the news from a perspective completely different than the one always presented to you. You can begin to truly understand people from a culture other than your own.

The Department of Language uses a multifaceted and innovative language curriculum to enable students to develop high levels of linguistic proficiency and cultural understanding. Our courses, along with our language center, conversation groups and immersion experience programs all help students acquire the linguistic and cultural skills they need to succeed.

For more information about the department, please contact Jean Marie Walls, Department Chair.

Announcements and Recent Events

  • On Thursday, May 2 Professor Brianne Kobeck hosted an interesting presentation regarding her dissertation research "Anglicized Spanish in the Beginning Spanish Classroom."
 Professor Kobeck
  • The semester is winding down and we would like to congratulate many of our students for their accomplishments. Congratulations to:
    • Jillian Barron for being accepted into the Master's in Romance Languages at University of Memphis
    • Heather Songer for passing her Master's comps at Indiana University Bloomington
    • Natalie Wittman, who was awarded the Agapito Fellowship at Indiana University, Bloomington! Natalie is admitted to the Master's in Spanish Literature with a one-year release from teaching responsibilities and a summer research/travel stipend.
    • Megan Miller on her admission to the Master's in Bilingual/Bicultural Social Work at New Mexico Highlands University

What We Offer

Majors

Minors

Languages
  • Applied Linguistics
  • French*
  • Spanish*
  • Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)*
*may be pursued with or without teacher certification
  • Applied Linguistics
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
  • American Sign Language (ASL)
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)



If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to he heart. 
-Nelson Mandela

 

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