我们提供语言学专业和语言学辅修课程，以及六个与人类学，德语，法语，意大利语，西班牙语以及语言和心理（心理学/哲学）系联合的跨学科专业。语言学系与该系提供联合专业包括法文，德文，意大利文，西班牙文和葡萄牙文，其中西班牙语专业要求总共10个4点课程（40分），其他语言专业要求总共9个4点课程（36分）。所有课程必须以C或更高的成绩完成。
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is an interdisciplinary department focused on the language, cultural formations, and critical thought emerging from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Luso-Afro-Brazilian world. Spanish and Portuguese are among the world's leading languages of culture, sociopolitics, and commerce. Once languages of empire, Spanish and Portuguese are now the lingua franca of important sectors of the Global South, and Spanish is the growing second language of the United States. We practice inclusive, decolonial approaches to language and translation, critical and comparative approaches to film, literature, performance, music, and visual art, humanistic engagements with historiography, memory, and archives, and we participate in debates in philosophy and critical and social thought, including Black and Indigenous perspectives from the Global South. Students are encouraged to study away at NYU Madrid or NYU Buenos Aires, where they may fulfill major or minor requirements through site-specific classes and immersive experiences. In addition, students participate in internships and collaborate on the online undergraduate journal, Esferas.