Bachelor of Dual Languages at University of Florida

The B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of a specific language (or languages) and advanced familiarity with the cultural practices and traditions associated with the language(s) of specialization. The major in FLL enhances critical thinking and communication skills and provides students with a cross-cultural understanding of our contemporary world. The program allows students the flexibility to explore a single or dual language specialization as well as the opportunity to study culture through interdisciplinary fields of critical concentration, such as Comparative Cultural Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Intensive Area Studies, Literary Studies, and Medieval and Early Modern Studies. A major in FLL offers an excellent basis for a variety of careers, including graduate study in an area of foreign language and culture and/or in the humanities and social sciences, as well as careers in education, international development, diplomacy and government, national security, communications, law, journalism, arts and culture, publishing, and global business. Participation in UF study-abroad programs or a UF approved program is highly encouraged.

Foreign Languages and Literatures Specializations

Dual Language Specialization

The Dual Language specialization of the Foreign Languages and Literature major offers students the opportunity to specialize in two of the languages offered by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC). Students can combine any of the languages offered as specializations and/or they can combine any of these languages with a specialization in Haitian Creole or Vietnamese.

Students who choose this track will develop proficiency in two languages as well as acquire cultural knowledge of more than one language area. Dual language majors will be specially poised to make both broad and deep linguistic and cultural comparisons and to build cross-cultural and cross-linguistic connections, skills that will prepare them to operate and work in multi-lingual and multi-cultural societies as well as across various complex regions of the world. Further, dual language majors will be able to apply the language-learning skills gained in the study of one language of specialization to reinforce their acquisition of a second language of specialization.

In the Dual Language specialization, students will complete two years of study of a principal language of specialization and two years of study of a second language taught in LLC. Students will also complete advanced coursework in the languages, their literatures and cultures, as well as a critical concentration.

There are a number of possibilities inherent in the Dual Language major. The following are some potential paths of study:

1. Dual Language: Haitian Creole with French and Francophone Studies
2. Dual Language: Vietnamese with Chinese

Students interested in the Dual Languages specialization need to complete a custom program plan with the undergraduate coordinators of the two languages they select.
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Coursework for the Major

The Dual Language specialization consists of two years of study of two languages. The 33 credits required includes 6 credits earned at the intermediate level in the second language, 18 credits of study in language, literature, and culture at the 3000 level or higher, and the 9 credit critical concentration. Students select a principal language of specialization and combine it with any of the other languages taught in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Course selections for the 18 credits of advanced electives will reflect the literature and culture of either language of specialization.

All coursework for the major must be completed with minimum grades of C.

Required Foundation Coursework

(not included in the 33 credits for the major)

First Language of Specialization

16-20 credits

The Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) major enables students to achieve communicative competence in their language(s) of specialization. Students will become knowledgeable in the culture and literature and/or linguistics associated with their language area(s) such that they will be able to critically analyze and evaluate authentic sources in the target language(s) and formulate independent, critical perspectives in the target language(s). Further, students will learn the intercultural skills and practical know-how necessary to negotiate traveling, studying, and living in the target culture(s).

Before Graduating Students Must

• Satisfy the Florida statutes for the College-Level Academic Skills Requirement.
• Complete requirements for the baccalaureate degree, as determined by faculty.
• Achieve one or more of the following, as determined by their specialization within the FLL program: an acceptable score on a language proficiency test and/or a satisfactory faculty evaluation of a term paper, final project, or oral presentation completed for a selected advanced course.

Students in the Major Will Learn to

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

Content

1. Describe and define cultural concepts, literary production, and/or linguistic structure in language(s) of specialization.

Critical Thinking

1. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts according to their cultural, literary and/or linguistic content.

Communication

1. Express critical competence in relation to the culture(s) of specialization through performance of comprehensive analysis in written and oral form.
2. Display oral and written proficiency in language(s) of specialization.

Curriculum Map

I = Introduced; R = Reinforced; A = Assessed

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Courses focus on the acquisition of the language(s) of specialization at the advanced level. 

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Courses address literary, cultural, cinematic, historical, and/or social questions.

Assessment Types

• Proficiency exams
• Term papers or final projects
• Oral presentations