<p>How are the foreign language courses at Penn, in terms of how much they cover, difficulty, etc.?</p>
<p>I am especially interested in Spanish or French, so how are those courses?</p>
<p>They are great (Spanish at least).</p>
<p>Are they interesting? Like do they go over any culture and stuff or is it strictly language? sounds good though!</p>
<p>Language first (with basic culture thrown in), but once you get past the advanced stages, then you just take classes that happen to be in a language. </p>
<p>For example, instead of a “Spanish” major, Penn has a “Hispanic Studies” major (and minor) that first encompasses the language aspects then has other classes on anything from history to film that are taught in spanish.</p>