Degrees & Majors
Second Language Competency
Offered at IU Southeast by School of Arts and Letters.
About
The Certificate in Second Language Competency creates a focused program of study that enables students to achieve a useful level of competency in French, German, or Spanish and provides documentation of their language skills.
Students completing the certificate should be able to do the following:
- Converse in the target language on a variety of subjects and be understood by native speakers.
- Comprehend authentic prose, fiction, and articles in the target language and apply critical-thinking skills to readings.
- Write essays in the target language with complex sentences on various topics.
- Possess an awareness of cultural values and beliefs of the world regions where the target language is spoken.