Program Overview

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Modern Languages with Second Language Education / Concurrent Education

Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences @ UWindsor Education @ UWindsor

Program Overview & Highlights

• General 3-Year Program
• Combined Honours Programs Available

Become fluent in teaching newcomers to Canada with this unique program. You’ll take three years in the Modern Languages program and two years in Education., earning two degrees at once to become eligible to teach JK to Grade 6. Concentrations in Arabic/French/Spanish.

Service learning courses in the community and abroad, including in Tanzania where you can help rehabilitate classrooms and teach in schools

Start your in-demand career now: 35% of Ontario secondary schools and 24% of elementary schools are facing daily teacher shortages

Learn to teach a second language to young newcomers to Canada

newly updated program with concentrations in Arabic/French/Spanish

Learn More About Our Program

• 10 service learning electives to enhance your experience
• 98.8% of our graduates are employed within 2 years1
• 1 (OUGS Education, 2020)
• 80 days of real teaching experience inside local schools
• 5,000+ Open the door to over 5,000 schools around the world with our International Baccalaureate qualification

What Lancers Are Saying

Modern Languages is exactly the gateway to the rest of the world that I've always wanted. Ever since I joined the program, my year abroad in Germany is all I can think about. The small size of the program is a blessing rather than a curse, and it really feels like every professor is rooting for me to succeed. My experience in Modern Languages has been encouraging, illuminating, and so much more than I could have ever expected.

Craig Leopold

Student Modern Languages

Faculty & Staff

Student Recruitment Officer

Selena Randhawa

Recruiter - Business, FAHSS, Law, Education

Recruitment & Outreach Coordinator

Sheri Lowrie

FAHSS Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

Selena Randhawa

Recruiter - Business, FAHSS, Law, Education

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: English/ENG4U (min. avg. 60%)
• Minimum Average: 75%
• Mean Average: 79%
• Minimum Average (Co-op): 80%; 70% minimum in English
• Note: Admission to first year only.

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Grade 12 English
• Minimum Average: 75%
• Mean Average: 79%
• Minimum Average (Co-op): 80%; 70% minimum in English
• Note: Admission to first year only.

Career Tracks

• Elementary teacher
• principal
• special education teacher
• learning strategist
• academic administrator
• language advisor
• translator/interpreter
• educational assistant
• immigration services

Related Programs

• History / Concurrent Education
• Modern Languages with Year Abroad

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

1. ENGL-1010 is required for all FAHSS Majors .Students with 80% or higher in Grade 12 ENG4U (or equivalent) are exempt from this course requirement and will substitute it with an additional course from any area of study.
2. All FAHSS programs require students to take one course with Indigenous content, perspectives, or materials. This can be done at any time during the student’s undergraduate education. It is recommended that co-op students fulfill this requirement in the summer term. See this link for course options:
   Not all Indigenous content courses are offered every term.
3. Language courses count as Arts or Science courses.
4. Students studying within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are encouraged to review the FAHSS Overview page.

Required Course Notes

Required Major Courses

• One course in linguistics: LING-2200
• One language training course in the chosen language stream:
  • FREN-1210, or
  • ITLN-1020*, or
  • SPAN-1020*

Recommended Major Courses

• One to two courses in intercultural studies**:
  • ARAB-3610 [a cinema course with no prerequisites], or
  • FREN-2810, or
  • GRMN-2480, or
  • GRMN-2610, or
  • SPAN-2600

Required Course: English

• ENGL-1010

Recommended Other Courses

• GART 1210 (see note 2)
• One Social Science,and/or
• One Arts/Language or Science

*ITLN-1020 and SPAN-1020 are intensive language training courses worth double credit, i.e., they count for two courses. Please note that GRMN-1020 is not offered in Fall 2025. ARAB-1100 is not offered in Fall 2025.

**These courses are offered on rotation. Please take at least one in your chosen language stream.

Required Courses

ENGL 1010: Academic Writing

An introduction to the fundamentals of effective writing in academic contexts. Topics may include language, essay writing conventions, critical thinking, research, editing and revising, and academic integrity. (1.5 lecture, 1.5 laboratory hours per week.) (Arts elective only; does not count for credit in the major or minor Fall 2025 Undergraduate Calendar 104 course requirements of any English or English and Creative Writing degree programs.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1001 or GART 1510.)

FREN 1210: French Language Training I

A study of norms and functions of the French verb system, nouns, pronouns, and modifiers. Oral practice, pronunciation and composition. (Prerequisite: Grade 12“U” French or Français, or equivalent.) (Antirequisite: any previous 2000-level French language training courses.)

ITLN 1020: Intensive Italian for Beginners

This intensive language-training course combined the content of two courses into a single term. Students will obtain credit for two courses. Note: 6 hours of class time per week. (Only for students with no prior knowledge of Italian.)

LING 2200: Language and Society

An introduction to the scientific study of language, specifically focused on the variation of meaning across contexts, social groups, regional areas, and historical periods. (Required of all Modern Languages majors and can be taken in the first year of study. Recommended for students interested in Speech Pathology. Should preferably be taken before LING-2210.)

SPAN 1020: Intensive Spanish for Beginners

This intensive language-training course combines the content of two courses into a single term. Students will obtain credit for two courses. Note: 6 hours of class time per week. (Only for students with no prior knowledge of Spanish.) (Antirequisites: SPAN-1010.)

Recommended Courses

FREN 2810: Introduction to the Culture of Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa

An introduction to various cultures of sub-Saharan Francophone Africa from pre-colonial times to the present. Students will be required to read some historical texts and representative literature. Some television documentaries and films will also be viewed. (Prerequisites: FREN-1210)

GART 1210: An Introduction into Indigenous Topics

This course introduces students to Indigenous histories, perspectives, and modern realities through an Indigenous lens. The role of colonization is introduced as Indigenous relationships on Turtle Island changed as a result of contact and colonization. This survey course provides a learning opportunity for students to engage in Indigenous pedagogy and worldview as they learn how history impacts the contemporary lives of Indigenous people. Through exploring relationships, this course engages critical reading, writing and thinking skills through course lectures and seminar activities. The history of relations assists in understanding how colonization’s policies and statutory documents thereafter affected Indigenous peoples, such as the Royal Proclamation, Treaties, the Indian Act, the British North America Act (1867), and the Constitution Act (1982). Today, these colonial-state governance documents are a significant part of Indigenous-Crown and Indigenous-settler relations. (2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week.) (Also offered as SOSC-1210.)

SPAN 2600: Culture and Civilization of Spain

Readings and discussion, in English, of topics from the history and culture of Spain.