Spanish
Youโll learn not only language proficiency, but new ways to process information, new perspectives, a sense of history, and an appreciation for other cultures. Through literature, youโll develop a global worldview.
Minor in Spanish
When you minor in Spanish, youโll become a better communicator and researcher, and a creative problem-solver. Study away will teach you to function comfortably in the global community and acquire a thirst for discovery.
Program Information:
Minor
- 24 Credit Hours
Location
- North Manchester
Program Highlights
Studying away is an exciting and enriching opportunity for students to experience, understand, and contribute to different cultures around the globe. Manchester University students have the opportunity to study in one of 10 countries around the world for either a semester or a year.
Through BCA Study Away, Manchester students have been enrolled in academic programs in Austria, Belgium, Ecuador, England (Cheltenham and London), Japan, New Zealand, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Manchester’s January Session also offers students opportunities to study off campus for two to three weeks in a variety of settings. In the past, off-campus travel courses have involved travel to exciting destinations including Ireland, England, India, France, Italy, Russia, Greece, Central America, Vietnam, Mexico and Hawaii.
The Department of Modern Languages at Manchester University is proud to announce the initiation of the Beulah E. Book Lecture Series. The series is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Beulah E. Book who established the I. Bruce Book Memorial Endowment Fund to provide funds to further the study of language at Manchester University.
Beulah Book and her family have strong ties to our university. Her father, I. Bruce Book taught English, manual arts, French and German during Manchester Collegeโs formative years. He also served as librarian and introduced basketball to the campus by hanging peach baskets on the oak trees behind the Administration Building. Her sister Orpah A. Book graduated from Manchester College in 1931, and was our reference librarian from 1964 to 1975 when she retired.
Beulah Book earned her B.A. from Manchester College in 1939 and M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1952. She was an art teacher in Muncie, Ind., schools for 40 years retiring in 1978. She was a member of Psi Iota Psi, Indiana Retired Teachers and National Art Education Association, Past President, Secretary and Treasurer and founding member of Art Education of Indiana. In 2004, we were proud in induct her as an honorary member of Alpha Mu Gamma, the national language honor society.
The Department of Modern Languages will use her bequest to further intellectual and cultural discourse on our campus.
Exchange for the Organization and the Promotion for Small Entrepreneurs
ECHOPPE (English โa shopโ) is an NGO created by Beverly Ott ’80 and her husband Olivier Hauville in 1980. The original idea for attacking the problem of urban poverty in Togo has expanded to include: small loans programs and youth employment opportunities in Togo and Benin; a fair-trade shop in Bev and Olivierโs home turf near Angers, France; and several other activities on behalf of small entrepreneurs in the Angers area and in several places in Africa. Several Manchester University students have spent a summer working with the projects in Togo. Emily Pleadwell spent a summer working with Bev and Olivier at their bed-and-breakfast near Angers. Her service, like that of the Manchester students who have gone to Togo, was supported by Pathways grants from Manchester.
Most recently, Katherine Skeen ’16 spent some of her semester in Strasbourg helping Bev and Olivier strengthen their ties to benefactors in Strasbourg and develop ideas for closer cooperation between ECHOPPE and Manchester University. Katie is a major in political science, with minors in French and economics.
Successful Graduates
Kendall Brown โ22
Kendall graduated with a double major in Spanish and Peace Studies, and a Minor in TESOL and was an Honor Student. While at Manchester she shared her honors research work during a VIA.
