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BA in Foreign Language

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree program in Foreign Language prepares adults for career change, advancement or graduate education, while providing personal enrichment. The program focuses on linguistic skills, literary appreciation, and understanding people and their culture. Students are required to select a specific language (such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.) and develop a broad general knowledge of the traditional liberal arts disciplines while developing a greater depth of knowledge in the language they select.

Learning Outcomes

  • Present information, concepts and ideas in a foreign language to an audience of listeners or readers
  • Translate and interpret a foreign language
  • Engage in conversations or correspondence in a foreign language
  • Demonstrate proficiency in the cultural and sociolinguistics aspects of a language

BA in Foreign Language Credit Distribution

Subject Category Credits
I. General Education Requirements 60
A. Intellectual and Practical Skills 15
  • Written Communication
 (6)
  • Oral Communication
 (3)
  • Quantitative Literacy
 (3)
  • Information Literacy
    SOS-110: Living in the Information Age
 (3)
B. Civic and Global Learning 9
  • Diversity
 (3)
  • Ethics
 (3)
  • Civic Engagement
 (3)
C. Knowledge of Human Cultures 12
D. Understanding the Physical and Natural World 4-7
E. General Education Electives 17-20
II. Area of Study: Foreign Language 33
A. Required Courses 21
  • Language skills through the advanced level
 (12)
EXAMPLES:  
  • Intermediate Language I and II
 (6)
AND  
  • Advanced Language I and II
 (6)
Note: Elementary/beginning-level language CANNOT be applied toward the area of study requirement  
  • History of Civilization
 (3)
  • Major Writers/Masterpieces of Literature
 (6)
    B. Capstone 3
  • LIB-495 Liberal Arts Capstone
 (3)
C. Foreign Language Electives* 9
FRENCH
  • Advanced Syntax
  • Consecutive & Simultaneous Interpreting
  • Contemporary French Drama
  • Dada and Surrealism
  • French Civilization: l9th Century and 20th Century
  • French Film
  • French Novel to l900
  • French Novel of the 20th Century
  • French Poetry
  • French Renaissance
  • Music in French Revolution
  • Napoleonic Wars: Fact and Fiction
  • Phonology
  • 17th Century (or l8th C. or l9th C. or 20th C.) Literature
  • l7th Century (or l8th C. or l9th C. or 20th C.) Theater
  • Translation
  • Women in French Literature
  
SPANISH
  • Cervantes
  • Comparative Grammar: Spanish - English
  • Contemporary Latin-American Theater
  • Evolution of Spanish Language
  • Hispanic Culture in New Jersey
  • Hispanic Mainland Literature
  • Literature of Puerto Rico and/or Cuba
  • Masterpieces of Spanish American
  • Literature
  • Middle Ages in Spain
  • Phonology
  • Spanish-American Cultural History
  • Spanish-American Novel
  • Spanish Literature of l9th Century
  • Spanish Novel of the 20th Century
  • Theater of the Golden Age
  • 20th Century Poetry
  • 20th Century Spanish Prose Literature
  
GERMAN
  • Age of Schiller
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Drama of l9th Century and 20th Century
  • German Novel of the 20th Century
  • Goethe
  • History and Development of German Language
  • l9th Century German Realism
  • Phonology
  • Poetry
  • Prose Fiction
  • l6th Century - l8th Century Literature
  • Translation
  
ITALIAN
  • Dante
  • Italian-American Novel
  • Italian Cinema
  • Italian Humanism and Renaissance
  • Italian Novel of the 20th Century
  • Italian Opera
  • Literature of the Renaissance
  • Literature of l3th & l4th Century (or l8th C. or l9th C. or 20th C.)
  • Phonology
  
D. Requirements  
  • Courses transferred to Thomas Edison State University are equated to the following levels: 100, 200, 300 or 400. A minimum of 18 credits equating to 300 or 400 are required.
  
III. Electives 27
Total Credits 120

*This list is a guide. Other foreign language courses may be appropriate for this area of study.

Note 1: Other foreign language areas of study may be modeled after the above. The area of study must be planned with a BA degree program advisor.

Note 2: All courses applied toward the foreign language area of study are REQUIRED to be taught in that specific foreign language, not in English translation.

Transfer Your Credit

Have you attended college before? If so, you may be able to transfer credits earned at other regionally accredited colleges or universities. The University also offers a variety of other ways to earn credit – all designed around the needs of adult learners, like you.

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