Spanish
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Spanish

Spanish

Spanish

Teach in a bilingual immersion school. Provide medical treatment to Hispanic patients in their native language. Share the gospel with Spanish speakers in the U.S. and around the world. Wherever your career takes you, Spanish knowledge will give you an advantage when applying to almost any job. At Northwestern, you'll regularly meet with a Hispanic conversation partner to practice your growing language skills, and you will spend a full semester studying abroad in a Spanish-speaking country.

Why NWC?

Why NWC?

Why NWC?

Why NWC?

You'll have plenty of opportunities to immerse yourself in your second language by attending or leading Spanish chapel, volunteering at a nearby Spanish-speaking church, doing short-term mission work, and tutoring schoolchildren who are learning English.

Spanish majors take both intermediate and advanced level language classes with coursework in grammar, composition and Hispanic literature.

Related study opportunities include minors in Spanish, Spanish-English interpretation and TESL (teaching English as a second language). Certificates in legal and medical interpreting, an ESL (English as a second language) certificate, and Spanish and TESL teaching endorsements are also available. 

CONTACT
Piet J. KoeneDepartment Chair

Outcomes

Around 85 percent of U.S. employers are reliant on Spanish communication, with 90 percent of those same employers indicating a high need for foreign language skills in the workplace, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Join our standout alumni at:

Council of Protestant Churches of Nicaragua
Managua, Nicaragua
Omaha Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Latino Center of the Midlands
Omaha, NE
Promise Community Health Partners
Sioux Center, IA
Marshalltown Community School District
Marshalltown, IA

Experience

Off-campus study
Bilingual worship
Mission + service opportunities
Interpreting certificate

As a Spanish major at Northwestern, you'll spend a full semester studying in a Spanish-speaking country, where you'll embrace Spanish language and culture as part of daily life. Northwestern offers study abroad programs in dozens of countries around the globe, including language immersion programs in Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Spain.

Experience

Off-campus study

As a Spanish major at Northwestern, you'll spend a full semester studying in a Spanish-speaking country, where you'll embrace Spanish language and culture as part of daily life. Northwestern offers study abroad programs in dozens of countries around the globe, including language immersion programs in Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Spain.

Bilingual worship
Mission + service opportunities
Interpreting certificate

Faculty

Brilliant scholars. Committed Christians. Invested in you. That's Northwestern's faculty.

Piet J. Koene
Professor of Spanish, Translation & Interpreting