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 Program at the University of Hawai’i 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.

The German Program at the University of Hawai’i offers courses in language, linguistics, literature, cultural studies and film.  A very high percentage of the students who take introductory German continue on to take upper division 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 Program at the University of Hawai’i 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.