The department provides comprehensive first and second year language courses in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, ancient Greek, and classical Latin.

The Spanish Program at the University of Hawaiʻi offers core courses in the literatures of Latin America, Spain and the Latina/o populations in the United States, plus additional courses in cultural studies, linguistics and film.

The Russian Division offers courses in Russian language, literature, culture, and film. Students from our program have gone on to successful jobs in commerce, communications, government, and higher education.

We are an innovative and responsive ‘boutique’ program, offering students a high level of personal support via academic advising and participation in an effective learning community. A very high percentage of the students who take introductory German at UH Manoa continue on to take 300- and 400-level classes.

The French Program at the University of Hawai‘i offers core courses in the literatures of France and Francophone countries throughout the world,  plus additional courses in cultural studies, language and linguistics, and film.

The Classics Division offers courses in ancient Greek and classical Latin, which traditionally constitute the foundation of every Classics program and which have as their aim to read and understand classical literary texts in the original languages.