<p>I am looking for a college that would allow me to learn 3+ foreign languages at the same time, preferably under a single major. I would like to be able to major in something else as well.</p>
<p>I don’t know how many schools will let you quadruple major, let alone triple major in three different languages. That’s not to say you can’t study three different languages, just know that it will be unlikely that you could major in all three. What languages are you interested in? If they were from a common region, i.e. the Far East, it would be more feasible (i.e. to study Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean while majoring in Asian Studies).</p>
<p>What languages interest you? What languages have you studied? Are you a heritage speaker of a certain language? Are you a gifted language learner?</p>
<p>The most feasible combinations for a multi-language major might involve languages within the same language family, e.g., Romance languages, Germanic languages, Slavic languages. </p>
<p>The University of Delaware offers a triple-language major:
[University</a> of Delaware Catalog](<a href=“UD Online Catalog”>UD Online Catalog)</p>
<p>Actually, studying Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean and majoring in all three would be pretty ridiculous as each is completely different from one another. Yes, culturally similar, but the languages have different characters (alphabets), sounds, etc. It’d be much easier to major in Spanish, Italian, and Latin as they are all romance languages and share many similarities.</p>
<p>I am already studying French, Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. I know that they are very different, but that has caused me no problems so far. I was asking if say a college would let me major in Romance Languages, which meant in that college I had the oppurtunity to learn ALL romance languages.</p>
<p>You might try a college that has a “design your own major” option. Then you could mix several foreign languages into one major.</p>
<p>I would, but I’ve been told that on your resume you would have to put “Liberal Arts Major,” which doesn’t look good to employers… well, I’m considering the ROTC anyways.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Who told you that? I’ve never heard that.</p>
<p>^I’ve never heard that either. </p>
<p>I agree with mom2–designing your own major is your best bet. A lot of schools allow you to create an interdisciplinary major (Duke for one), but Brown is the school that really embraces the student-designed major.</p>
<p>Not intending to offend you, but why would you want to use all your elective credits to learn multiple languages, when a person with your language skills could probably learn several languages quite well during a semester abroad in Europe. There are many fields that you cannot reasonably master outside of an academic setting. That’s not the case with languages.</p>
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The University of Michigan offers a concentration in Roman Languages and Literatures:</p>
<p>“Romance Languages and Literatures may be elected as a departmental concentration program. Concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures allows students to include more than one Romance language in a program of study that also encourages them to discover and to make connections between the two Romance languages and cultures that they choose to pursue…” [Romance</a> Languages - Romance Languages & Literatures Concentration & Minor](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/concminors/romance.html]Romance”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/concminors/romance.html)</p>
<p>The University of Chicago also offers a BA in Romance Languages and Literatures:
[Major</a> Requirements in More than One Literature | Undergraduate Program | Romance Languages and Literatures | The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities](<a href=“http://rll.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/majorreqs2.shtml]Major”>http://rll.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/majorreqs2.shtml)</p>
<p>I agree with gadad. My Belgium boss told me that college students there generally speak five or more lanuages fluently.</p>
<p>You might look for a college that is generous with AP credits if you have some and one that isn’t too restrictive with core requirements. Many state universities fit this description. You may also want to narrow the languages you would like to pursue and do a major search on the College Board site. You will be surprised at how few colleges offer the language combination you select. My daughter was searching German, Russian, and Japanese plus a science and there were not all that many colleges.</p>
<p>The bigger issue you may find is scheduling. Currently, DD’s one language class is five credits and meets for seven contact hours. There is only one lecture section, so conflicts can exist. You will also find if you look around that many colleges and universities offer intensive summer language programs. You seem to have a broad foundation in many languages; however, D’s advisor suggested only starting one new language at a time.</p>
<p>If you have a real talent for languages, you can probably get a good foundation without majoring in multiple languages. If you want to work in a field using languages, a company–or the government–will send you to school to learn whatever language it is that they want you to learn.</p>
<p>You may want to look into a Linguistics major. At my school, several rarer languages are offered through the Linguistics department and it is required of Linguistics majors to take at least one semester in another language. It would be less demanding than majoring in three different languages and since the major itself deals with the structure of human language, it should be accommodating to learning multiple foreign languages.</p>
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<p>Your first issue is that very few if any American universities offer instruction in ALL romance languages, even if you only include languages with more than say, 1M living speakers (which would include Sardinian, Sicilian, Piedmontese, Galician, and Catalan). Many schools do not even offer instruction in Romanian (>20M speakers).</p>
<p>Your second issue is that the universities that do offer instruction in the largest number of Less Commonly Taught Languages (Berkeley, Michigan, Chicago …) generally are not Open Curriculum schools. You’ll need to satisfy general education requirements at these schools. </p>
<p>The Open Curriculum schools include Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan, Sara Lawrence, Smith, Hampshire, New College of Florida, and Grinnell. Most of these schools cover a much more limited number of languages, but more flexibility in your course selection. However, even at some of these schools, a good faculty adviser may discourage you from loading up on nothing but foreign language classes. If you want to get a decent foundation in a complementary discipline, such as Linguistics or European History, you’ll need to make room for the equivalent of one full semester of courses (5 courses or so). Maybe more. </p>
<p>In my opinion, you’ll have a more satisfying college experience, and a better education, if you limit yourself to no more than 2 or 3 languages in college. You can major in Romance Languages at a number of schools, but even in those programs you’d typically only cover a couple of languages.</p>
<p>[Major</a> & Minor :: Romance Languages & Literatures :: Mount Holyoke College](<a href=“http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/romance/programs.html]Major”>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/romance/programs.html)
<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/romance/[/url]”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/romance/</a>
[Undergraduate</a> Program | Romance Languages and Literatures | The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities](<a href=“http://rll.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/]Undergraduate”>http://rll.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/)
[Romance</a> Languages - Romance Languages & Literatures Concentration & Minor](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/concminors/romance.html]Romance”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/concminors/romance.html)</p>
<p>My mother had a student designed major and told me so. </p>
<p>Anyways. I like the idea of taking additional languages over the summer, as well as learning many while traveling. Right now I am leaning a lot more towards schools without core curriculum, and also towards Delaware because of their 3-language program.</p>
<p>I am glad someone brought Michigan to my attention. That is very handy. Thank you.</p>
<p>*My mother had a student designed major and told me so. *</p>
<p>your mom may have a student designed major, but that doesn’t mean that a student is req’t to put “Liberal Arts” as their major on resumes. She just thinks that’s the case.</p>
<p>Wisconsin offers among the most languages in the US and is a designated language center.</p>
<p>[The</a> University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute](<a href=“http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/]The”>http://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/)</p>
<p>I appreciate the mention of schools. I have looked into them and like them so far.</p>
<p>U Delaware has a major called Three Languages. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.udel.edu/fllt/main/Majors/ThreeLanguageMajor.html[/url]”>http://www.udel.edu/fllt/main/Majors/ThreeLanguageMajor.html</a></p>
<p>Some schools have humanities majors that include multiple languages.</p>