Adolescence Education: French and Spanish (7-12) Major

Share your love of foreign languages, foreign literatures and foreign cultures. You’ll develop multilingual communicative skills for a wide range of purposes and develop language skills, cultural awareness and the pedagogical background necessary to teach both French and Spanish in grades 7-12 in New York state.

Career Potential

French and Spanish in elementary school when you take the extension course
Middle school teacher
High school teacher

What Will I Learn?

Most of your credit hours will be focused on French and Spanish, but you will also take courses in

Adolescence Education
Education
Health
Psychology
Students with disabilities
Literacy

Special Features

Study abroad
Internship opportunities
Language clubs
Language Proficiency Certificate: SUNY Cortland is a testing site for the certificate for proficiency in commercial French.
Foreign language learning center
Foreign Language Early Start (FLES) methods course for K-6 certification extension

Get Involved

College is more than a classroom. Enhance your experience with extracurricular opportunities. Nothing builds language skills like immersion in another culture. Choose from our many study abroad programs to round out your experience.