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Removal of the Foreign Language Requirement - RooTV 3/8/23

Removal of the Foreign Language Requirement – RooTV 3/8/23

RooTV
March 8, 2023

News anchors Grace Kertz and Deja McKenzie tell us about the decision to remove the foreign language requirement for some UMKC degrees, and highlight the TAASU's award recipients who have made a positive impact on our community. Jackson Ogden takes us into the den, and wraps...

Many foreign language classes take place in the same classroom on the second floor of Scofield Hall

Foreign Language Requirement removed from School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Aurora Wilson, Staff Writer
March 1, 2023

  Despite protests from foreign language professors, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences no longer requires foreign language classes to complete its degree programs.      Faculty outside of the foreign language department voted on the removal, which went into...

Half of a glob with a variety of flags printed on it such as Spain, United States, UK, Korea, Mexico, etc. There is a shadow of a city scape in the very background.

We need our language arts

Kayla Wiltfong
February 1, 2021

In the summer of 2019, I was privileged enough to study abroad in Málaga, Spain, with the Spanish program at UMKC. At first, I honestly wasn’t sure if I was going to like Spain, because European history doesn’t interest me much. As the class travelled through Andalucía,...

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