PCAL Modern Languages

Jan 14th, 2022

Congratulations to Modern Languages alumna Keightley Dudgeon for being named a Rangel Fellow. Read more about Dudgeon and how she's using her degrees in Arabic and TESL to further her academic and career goals!

Jan 4th, 2022

Bowling Green senior Kerby Gilstrap is an International Affairs and Arabic major. Read more to see how her Arabic learning journey began, how it evolved, and how it's improving her life as well as her command of another language.

Dec 2nd, 2021

Students in Dr. Melissa Stewart’s Advanced Oral Spanish class (SPAN 470/G) ended the semester with debates on contemporary issues in Spanish. This activity allows students to demonstrate what they have learned throughout the semester.

Dec 2nd, 2021

WKU Modern Languages recently hosted an event for high school students in Kentucky in which they, too, can observe and recognize Hispanic heritage and culture in their own lives, by writing about a person of Hispanic roots who has positively impacted thei

Nov 29th, 2021

Bethany Waddey is a Spanish and Communications Sciences and Disorders major. She explains how pairing a language major or minor with any degree can lead to more career opportunities.

Nov 22nd, 2021

Spanish syntax and sentence structure were put aside to welcome four Hispanic guests that raised their spatulas to demonstrate their favorite recipes from home: patacones and mango salad from Ecuador, empanadas from the Dominican Republic, potato omelets

Nov 22nd, 2021

Last weekend, WKU Arabic students Reece Gillespie, Garrett Strickler, Kerby Gilstrap, and Cody Smith, along with Modern Languages Arabic instructor Lhousseine Guerwane, participated in the second annual U.S. Arabic Debate Championship (USADC) at the Unive

Nov 9th, 2021

The WKU Department of Modern Languages gathered last Wednesday in the Honors College and International Center to celebrate the work and recent retirement of Dr. Laura McGee and Dr. Karin Egloff.

Oct 28th, 2021

Dr. Inmaculada Pertusa, a professor of Spanish and Literature at WKU, invited Dr. Elena Madrigal to engage students through a Zoom presentation about Torri. Dr. Madrigal is a principal researcher of Julio Torri from a literary and academic standpoint and

Oct 28th, 2021

On November 21, 2021, WKU students had the opportunity to take a “trip around the world” without leaving the third floor of the WKU Honors College and International Center (HCIC) where Ekaterina Myakshina, professor of Russian, holds her classes.