BA World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - French, German, Spanish Concentrations - TUG

Gardner-Webb University's BA World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Program with a concentration in French/German/Spanish will provide you with ...

A major in World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures with Concentrations with a concentration in French, German Studies, or Spanish consists of 42 hours above the FREN 101 and 102; GERM 101 and 102; and SPAN 101 and 102 levels. The major consists of courses in four (4) tiers:

1. Foundation courses (9 hours)—an introduction into the relevant fields of your major (linguistics, intercultural communication, literature and film studies).
2. Language, literature, and culture courses taught in the target language (21 hours)—these courses will be taken by students of a specific concentration.
3. Comparative courses (9 hours)—these courses will be taken by students of all concentrations.
4. Capstone (3 hours)—a senior seminar focusing on the exploration, research, development, and presentation of a major research and analytical essay on a subject appropriate to the major (fall semester, senior year). 

Students majoring in WLLC (French/German/Spanish) have to have 7 language courses above the 100-level, 3 WLLC 300-level Culture classes, 3 WLLC 100-level Foundation classes, and Capstone course WLLC 480. With the exception of the language classes (French/German/Spanish) and the Capstone course, the classes can be taken in any sequence.

This degree plan is an example of student progression through the program. Academic departments reserve the right to alter the term in which a course is offered.

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As a student in this program, you will:

• Students will demonstrate the required level of competency in their chosen language of study.
• Distinguish language as a human phenomenon: how it is used in social contexts, how the mind processes language, how language (first and second) is acquired, how it is compared to non-human forms of communication.
• Describe culture as a context for communication by defining culture and identities within that culture, by understanding face-to-face and mediated communication, and by understanding culture’s influence on perspective.
• List cultural values: the dimensions of culture, dominant U.S. cultural patterns, comparative cultural patterns, culture and gender, contact between cultures.
• Discover the basic theoretical and cultural concepts underlying historical and contemporary approaches to literature and of the major differences between them.
• Generate and articulate personal responses to literary and critical texts, and to explain the premises and assumptions underlying such personal responses.