World Language Minor

The Department of World Languages and Literatures offers undergraduate minors in American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. (Please note, applications for the concentration in Chinese are not currently being accepted.) An undergraduate world language minor must complete 20 upper-division credits (numbered 300 or above) in language, literature, or culture, at least 12 of which are in the target language (at least 8 of which are in the target language in the Italian and Persian minors), and 4 credits in general linguistics (WLL 390, Ling 390, or a linguistics course in the target language).

• No more than 4 credits of courses numbered 404 (Cooperative Education) may be counted toward the minor.
• Twelve of the required 24 credits must be taken in residence at PSU (includes study abroad credit from PSU approved programs).
• All courses used to satisfy the departmental minor requirements, must be graded C or higher. (C- and P are not acceptable). Students minoring in a foreign language must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.50 on all courses used to satisfy the minor requirements.