Languages at Seattle Pacific University
The languages offered at SPU include Chinese, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Spanish. If you’ve studied a foreign language and are an incoming student, you should take the online placement exam. This exam is for placement purposes only and cannot be used to satisfy the proficiency requirement.
Program Learning Outcomes
Language courses at SPU seek to help students:
- Understand and appreciate the rich diversity of world languages and cultures, both ancient and modern.
- Achieve communicative proficiency, both productive and receptive, in languages other than English.
- Cultivate an appreciation for world literature(s) in order to deepen the study of languages and cultures.
- Understand linguistic structures and concepts through the study of languages.
