拉丁语言和文学系在本科和研究生阶段提供法语，意大利语和西班牙语语言以及相应的文学和文化课程。西班牙裔美国人研究专业确保西班牙语的特殊能力，使学生能够与语言使之成为可能的文学和文化文物进行广泛而密切的合作。基于他们在语言课程中巩固的语言能力，专业将其熟练程度扩展到各种各样的西班牙文本。该培训锻炼并确保我们的学生具有分析文本和上下文以及构想，表达和捍卫原创思想的能力。西班牙裔未成年人通过获得语言能力并至少修读两门6000级的课程，可以获得较小的收益。
A Hispanic Studies major assures exceptional competence in Spanish, allowing students to work extensively and closely with literary and cultural artifacts that language makes possible. Building on their linguistic proficiency consolidated in the language program, majors expand that proficiency to a wide variety of Hispanic texts. This training exercises and assures our students' ability to analyze texts and contexts, as well as to conceive, articulate, and defend an original idea.