2025-26 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jun 14, 2026  
2025-26 Undergraduate Catalog

Modern Languages Department


Codruta Temple, chair
Old Main, Room 228
607-753-4303
Fax: 607-753-5965
Email:[email protected]
cortland.edu/modern-languages

School of Arts and Sciences

Modern languages professor talking to a student

Faculty

Danielle Bouchard-Bihr, Ashleigh Cox, Giovanni Maria Dettori, Hongli Fan, Christopher Gascón, Timothy Gerhard, Odalis Hidalgo, Patricia Martínez de la Vega Mansilla, Suzanne McCutcheon, Shena Salvato, Jean Costa Silva, Codruta Temple, Wesley Weaver

Degrees and Minors


Bachelor of Arts in Adolescence Education: Spanish (7-12)
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language (K-12)
    - Certification
    - Non-certification
Minor in Spanish
Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language

Description

The Modern Languages Department offers opportunities for the study of foreign languages, foreign literatures and foreign cultures. Students develop multilingual communicative skills for a wide range of purposes. Liberal arts majors and minors in Spanish and Teaching English as a Second Language are available.

Students who incorporate professional education courses in their programs may qualify for initial certification in adolescence education (Spanish) and Teaching English as a Second Language (grades K-12). In addition, adolescence education majors (Spanish) may be eligible for a K-6 extension. Courses in American Sign Language, French and Italian are also offered.

The Modern Languages Department also offers academic support to all international students, undergraduate and graduate, in the areas of academic writing, academic grammar and vocabulary, and academic listening and speaking.

The department participates in interdisciplinary programs leading to minors in Latino and Latin American Studies  and International Studies.

Special Features

  • Study abroad
    See International and Study Abroad programs for more information.
  • National Honor Society in Spanish (Sigma Delta Pi)
  • Internship opportunities
  • Language clubs
  • FLES methods course for K-6 certification extension in Spanish

Requirements

  1. Degree requirements  listed in this catalog apply to the majors offered by this department.
  2. Liberal Arts Requirements: 90 credit hours

Programs

    MajorMinorMicrocredential

    Courses

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