Foreign Languages

Have you thought about working as a journalist covering the separatist movement in French-speaking Quebec? As a translator for an archeological team researching Mayan ruins in Mexico? As an environmental chemist helping clean up industrial sites in the new Eastern states of Germany? The study of foreign languages at Coe College can make such dreams real, and it can do more. When you study Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin or Greek at Coe, you become culturally literate in the language, poetry, music, food, geography, painting and customs of another people and are then better able to understand your own place in your own culture.

Our approach to languages at Coe is integrated and comprehensive. Study in any of our languages enhances what you learn in Political Science, in Music, in History, in Philosophy, even in Chemistry and Mathematics. Students studying foreign languages learn under inventive, dedicated teachers who enjoy close working relationships with students and who bring energy and passion to the classroom. When students leave Coe they are prepared to put their language skills and their liberal arts education to work in the world.