该计划将鼓励并建议学生从事出国学习的经验，研究机会，课外活动以及基于社区的学习机会，这将使他们能够说，理解和编写两种外语，并对他们进行语言分析，从而了解他们。讲这些语言的某些文化的主要方面，并锻炼跨文化意识。现代语言专业的目标是双重的：使学生能够熟练使用两种现代语言（语言/浓度A和语言/浓度B）来提高四种语言技能（听，说，说和写）。文化理解。
The aim of the Modern Languages Major is twofold: to enable students to develop proficiency in the four language skills--aural, oral, reading, and writing--in two modern languages (Concentration A and Concentration B), and to develop cultural literacy. Two of the following languages offered in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures can be combined for the Modern Languages major: Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Students start Concentration A at least in the third semester (CHIN 2103, FREN 2103, GRMN 2103, ITAL 2103, SPAN 2103) and Concentration B at least in the first semester (CHIN 2101, FREN 2101, GRMN 2101, ITAL 2101, SPAN 2101).<br><br>Through a structured and carefully planned group of course offerings and a strong recommendation to participate for a semester or a summer in study abroad programs, the Modern Languages Major will prepare students for a world in which intercultural understanding provides the basis for mutual respect, global harmony, and social justice.<br><br>The program will encourage and advise students to embark in study abroad experiences, research opportunities, extracurricular activities, and community-based learning opportunities that will prepare them to speak, understand, and write two foreign languages as well as linguistically analyze them, to know the principal aspects of some of the cultures where those languages are spoken, and to exercise intercultural awareness.