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Modern Languages

Whether or not you plan to use a foreign language in your future career, studying one at Bentley can significantly enhance your career options. It will also make you a more well-rounded individual and culturally sensitive global citizen. We offer a diverse and engaging array of courses in Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish. Each class is carefully designed to help you hone your language and communication skills while also developing the critical cultural awareness necessary for success in our ever-expanding global community. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to venture outside the classroom through study abroad and internship opportunities that offer experiential learning and cultural immersion. Whichever career path you ultimately choose, our Modern Languages courses help you prepare for future success by fostering a deeper awareness and understanding of our interconnected world.

Degree Programs

Language, Culture and Business with a language concentration

Minor Programs

Modern Languages Spanish for Business

Language Placement

Exams and Information

Faculty research

As dedicated teacher-scholars, faculty members of the Department of Modern Languages continuously incorporate our ongoing scholarly research into our teaching of modern languages and culture in the classroom. We welcome Bentley undergraduate students to do research with us! 

Faculty in our department are active in the following research areas:

  • Interdisciplinary Regional Studies
  • Translation Studies and Practice
  • Cinema Studies
  • Second Language (L2) Pedagogy and Theory
Modern Languages Service Learning

Working with local communities

Bentley University Spanish Students earn a fourth credit while partaking in service learning at a local elementary school. Alongside the parents of the students at Whittemore Elementary School that want to improve their English, Bentley students spend a half hour speaking in English and a half hour in Spanish about topics ranging from holidays and tourist sites to the difference in educational systems in the US and Central America. While performing service learning, students also improve their Spanish speaking skills and learn about Hispanic cultures. Moreover, they learn more about Waltham's immigrant community and form meaningful cross-cultural relationships.

Bentley University Honors student Hannah Rauch

Casablanca Capstone

For her Honors Program Capstone research, Hannah Rauch ’19 combined her Finance major and French minor, exploring the economic realities of women in French-speaking Northern Africa. Then, she presented her research at an international conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

 

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Courses

Chinese   French   Italian   Spanish

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Faculty Profiles

CLIC

The Center for Languages and International Collaboration (CLIC)

The Center for Languages and International Collaboration (CLIC) seeks to enhance course curricula in Modern Languages and International Studies through the use of state-of-the-art technology. Faculty members in both disciplines work in concert with the center to integrate course content and technology using synchronous and asynchronous technology.

Live video and computer conferencing, a multimedia library of instructional materials for language and cultural learning, and access to international satellite broadcasting are some of the technical resources available at the center that make authentic exposure to language, countries and cultures possible. The CLIC staff, composed of undergraduate Bentley students who speak two or more languages, also work with their peers throughout the semester and in doing so, continue to build the global perspective within the Bentley community.

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Contact

Christian Rubio
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Morison Hall 285
781.891.2694
crubio@bentley.edu

 

Darlene Saunders
Senior Academic Coordinator
Morison Hall 109
781.891.3137
dsaunders@bentley.edu