World Languages

The Department offers a major in Spanish, a dual-degree in K-12 Subject Matter Education and Spanish, an interdisciplinary major in Modern Languages and Linguistics, and an interdisciplinary major in Area Studies. Also, the Department offers the Applied Spanish Program Sequence A for the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies: Humanities / Social Sciences.

Minors are offered by the Department in American Sign Languages (ASL), Arabic Studies (interdisciplinary), French, German Studies (interdisciplinary), Italian Studies (interdisciplinary), Japanese, Latin American Studies (interdisciplinary), Romance Languages (Spanish, French and Italian), and Spanish.

Additionally, the Department offers Certificates of Undergraduate Study (CUGS), of 12 s.h. each, in (1) American Sign Language (ASL), (2) Arabic, (3) Chinese, (4) French, (5) German, (6) Italian, (7) Japanese, (8) Russian (9) Spanish, (10) Applied Spanish, (11) Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture, (12) Spanish American Literature and Culture, (13) Spanish Translation and Interpretation, (14) Spanish for Health Professions, and (15) World Literature in English
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Students with existing proficiency in a language are welcome to participate in a placement test or placement interview. For Spanish, students take the STAMP 4S exam ($19.90 fee – contact Esther Mas, Spanish Placement Coordinator, at mas@rowan.edu for details). For all other languages, students may participate in a free placement interview with a faculty member in the Department of World Languages (contact Dr. Marilyn Manley, Chairperson, at manley@rowan.edu for more information). For example, students who have studied a world language previously or have learned a world language with family members may be interested in skipping lower-level courses. Students then have the option to purchase the credits for skipped courses through the Authorization for Credit by Exam process, and these credits are accepted in fulfillment of program requirements at Rowan ($105 fee to purchase 3 credits, $135 for 6 credits, $165 for 9 credits, and $195 for 12 credits).

The Department of World Languages also awards full-time Rowan students 6 credits for the New Jersey State Seal of Biliteracy, earned in high school, corresponding to the first two semesters of language study. These credits are awarded for all languages, regardless of whether they are currently offered at Rowan. These credits can be used to fulfill Rowan’s Global Literacy requirement. Additionally, these credits can be used in partial fulfillment of the requirements for major, minor, and CUGS programs, or as free electives. Interested students should e-mail the following faculty members, depending on the language. In the e-mail, students should include: (1) their Banner ID, (2) the language in which the Seal was earned, (3) the name of their high school, and (4) the year that they graduated from high school.

Melissa Rivera Screven (screven@rowan.edu) - American Sign Language (ASL)
Tarek Mousa (mousa@rowan.edu) - Arabic
Caesar Dommar (dommar@rowan.edu) - French
Dr. Edward C. Smith III (smithe@rowan.edu) - German
Dr. Alessandra Mirra (mirra@rowan.edu) - Italian
Chie Matsumura Dusk (dusk@rowan.edu) - Japanese
Esther Mas Serna (mas@rowan.edu) - Spanish
Dr. Marilyn S. Manley (manley@rowan.edu) - All other languages

Visit Department of World Languages for the latest details.

Marilyn S. Manley
Department Chair
Oak Hall Room 110
856.256.4044
manley@rowan.edu