What in the world...

does studying a world language do for you?

Studying a world language (such as Spanish, Chinese, and Latin offered at De Smet Jesuit):

• Provides students with the tools to communicate with people of other countries.
• Enhances students’ understanding of their own language.
• Allows students to understand and appreciate other ways of life.
• Helps students develop critical thinking skills that will help them connect their own language and culture to that of others.
• Develops students’ verbal, written, and critical thinking skills in the target world language.
• Broadens the students’ cultural, personal, and intellectual views.
• Encourages students to make connections between their own and world languages, cultures, and peoples.
• Promotes the study of texts in the target language.
• Utilizes technology to facilitate student learning by diverse means.
• Fosters and increases student interest in world languages, cultures, and peoples.
• Provides opportunities for studying world languages and cultures abroad.
• Provides continuing world language study beyond the two-year requirement.