Students in the Miami in Spain program

Our major was recently streamlined, to ensure that students have enough flexibility to double and triple major. We continue to develop and revamp our course offerings to optimally serve our students. Many courses now have new perspective areas and some have signature inquiries.

Guest Talks

We hosted alumna Emily Medosch, who is part of the Hamilton County Public Defender office. She gave a career talk and highlighted the value of our study abroad in Argentina, in addition to the Spanish major. The students especially enjoyed the chicken from a restaurant that is very popular with students.

Our department helped to sponsor and publicize a pedagogical talk in which Princeton’s Dr. Jamie Rankin came to present his research-driven argument that the foundation of foreign language teaching must be word frequency. Based on his hypothesis, Jamie developed a popular textbook for teaching the German language: Der Die Das.

We also helped to sponsor and publicize a talk about the famous Japanese film director, Hirokazu Kore-eda — given by Case Western Reserve’s professor emerita and Kore-eda scholar, Dr. Linda Ehrlich. We learned that Kore-eda began as a documentary maker and has striven to make each of his films unique in as many aspects as possible. Perhaps unusually, his first feature film is his most famous.

OSU’s expert on structured input, Dr. Wynne Wong, was invited to hold a workshop on language pedagogy.

Jorge Merlos, the translator for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, will be speaking for our Business Spanish students on February 6th, 2025 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Alumni Hall room 1. All are invited.

Study Abroad Programs

Integrating Spanish and Health Program in Costa Rica

We currently offer two study abroad programs in Costa Rica, two in Spain, and one in Argentina.They are essential opportunities for students to earn credits, complete requirements, and gain invaluable experience. Julie Szucs, Nohelia Rojas-Miesse, David Motta, and José Domínguez Búrdalo direct and teach these programs.

Job Market Demand for Spanish and Portuguese Proficiencies

Graduates are in especially high demand for stable, highly-valued, government jobs in intelligence agencies and diplomatic corps. Spanish proficiency is becoming increasingly important across the job market.

LDA Tamise Ironstrack: "We have recently graduated students in medicine, law, and other graduate programs. Alumni are using their Spanish in hospitals as scribes, in law offices with clients, while living in Spain teaching English, working as high school band directors, with families of students in educational settings, and more."