The Modern Languages department offers two different tracks towards potential Minors.

For complete details, we strongly recommend reviewing the Modern Languages and Cultures Concentration and Minors Program Booklet

Please see below for more detailed descriptions for each track. If you would like to instead see a complete listing of available Liberal Arts Minor programs, click here

Foreign Language

This minor provides two full years of foreign language instruction to prepare for living and working within an intercultural society both at home and abroad
Students must take five consecutive language courses beyond the introductory prerequisite language course.

Important Information:

1. Evening students may not declare this minor.
2. Fluent native speakers of a language offered at RIT may not choose a minor in that language.
3. Residency requirement: three out of the five required courses must be taken at RIT. Only two courses may be transferred in, if necessary. Thus this minor is closed to students with substantial transfer credit in a language or significant prior knowledge of a language.
4. Students may neither skip nor go back to the lower level in the language course sequence. Students with some proficiency in the intended minor should contact the minor advisor for proper placement prior to the registration for the first course of the sequence at RIT.

Please click the link above to learn more about the available Minor Programs in Foreign Language.

Foreign Language/Culture

The foreign language/culture minor provides intermediate study in foreign language and appropriate courses in the culture of the target language area.

Important Information:

1. Evening students may not declare this minor.
2. Fluent native speakers of a language offered at RIT may not choose a minor in that language.
3. Residency requirement: three out of the five required courses must be taken at RIT. Only two courses may be transferred in, if necessary. Thus, this minor is closed to students with substantial transfer credit in a language or significant prior knowledge of a language.
4. Students may neither skip nor go back to the lower level in the language course sequence. Students with some proficiency in the intended minor should contact the minor advisor for proper placement prior to the registration for the first course of the sequence at RIT.

Please click the link above to learn more about the available Minor Programs in Foreign Language/Culture.