Date of Award

Spring 5-2013

Degree Type

Honors College Thesis

Department

Foreign Languages and Literature

First Advisor

Auxiliadora Arana-Sánchez

Advisor Department

Foreign Languages and Literature

Abstract

This paper studies the eight four-year public universities within the state of Mississippi and their French and Spanish foreign language curriculums in order to compare their curriculums to those of The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ standards of the Five C’s: communication, communities, culture, connections, and comparisons. The results are broken down into three sections by each college’s overall rankings, each college’s individual course offerings, and culture offerings. The data provides interesting results that shows that while a university may offer more or less foreign language courses, their curriculum did not necessarily reflect the standards that ACTFL describes as good standards for learning a foreign language.

Share

COinS