Professions Track Focus Areas
- Global Applied Linguistics
- Global Business
- Global Politics
- Global Public Health
- Global Translation
- Proficiency in Another Global Language
Sample Careers
- AI specialist
- Bilingual educator
- College admissions advisor
- Director of global programs
- Foreign service member
- Government or NGO official
- International lawyer
- Multimedia journalist
- Teacher or professor
- Translator or interpreter
Recent Internships
- The American Turkish Society
- Brooklyn Defender Services
- Clinton Foundation
- French Government’s Teaching Assistantship Program in France
- Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris
- Rodin Museum, Paris
- Spanish Government’s North American Language and Culture Assistants Program in Spain
Alumni Spotlight
Carley Salerno ’23
Majors: French, Political Science
Minors: Linguistics
Career: Salerno is a JD candidate at Columbia Law and a linguist at heart. Her keen interest in learning new languages and experimenting with interpretations in her native English has motivated her to pursue international law.
Global Languages and Cultures
Why study global languages and cultures at Geneseo?
This major offers students the choice of three different tracks: French studies, Spanish studies, or French/Spanish for the professions. The professions track includes six separate focus areas designed to develop the language skills employers are actively seeking.
The global languages and cultures program enables students to count approved courses from outside the department toward their major requirements. Organizing the degree in this way makes it easy for students to double major in any of the focus areas. This innovative, interdisciplinary major provides solid preparation for graduate study and a wide variety of careers at home and abroad.
Program Options
- BA in Global Languages and Cultures (French Studies)
- BA in Global Languages and Cultures (Spanish Studies)
- BA in Global Languages and Cultures (French or Spanish for the Professions)
- BA in French, Adolescence Education
- BA in Spanish, Adolescence Education
- Minor in French
- Minor in German
- Minor in Spanish
- Minor in Black and Africana Studies
- Minor in European Studies
- Minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Additional Options
- Concentration in Foreign Language: French with Early Childhood/Childhood Education (B–6)
- Concentration in Foreign Language: Spanish with Early Childhood/Childhood Education (B–6)
- Microcredential in Sociocultural Mediator in Spanish
Program Highlights
- Geneseo is the only SUNY college to offer a global languages and cultures major.
- Class size is small, so students receive plenty of personal attention.
- All full-time faculty hold a PhD and have extensive experience teaching in the US and abroad.
- Geneseo offers many study abroad opportunities in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Three annual department scholarships support study abroad.
- Students may work one-on-one with professors on independent research; research is often presented at local, regional, and national conferences.
- Students are eligible for membership in the Geneseo chapters of nationally accredited academic honor societies in French, German, Spanish, and foreign languages.
- Many of the college’s recipients of Fulbright Awards, Gilman International Scholarships, and other prestigious fellowships and scholarships are language students.
- Students have the opportunity provide free peer tutoring.
Recent Employers
- Apple
- Camerican International
- Cisco
- Delta Airlines
- Hover, Inc.
- KPMG Canada
- Movable Ink
- Multipure International
- NYU Langone Health
- Paychex
- Team Cymru, Inc.
- Van Cleef & Arpels
Recent Grad Schools
- American University, Cairo
- Boston University
- Columbia University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Middlebury College
- Penn State Law
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Tulane University
- Université de Montréal
- Université Paris Cité
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Toronto
Contact Info
Beverly J. Evans, Distinguished Teaching Professor of French
evans@geneseo.edu
Welles Hall 211
585-245-5247
