Foreign Language

www.linnbenton.edu/foreign-language

Spanish is the only language available at LBCC for students wishing to pursue a foreign language degree at a four-year transfer school. Transfer credit language classes earn four transfer credits each, and emphasize building oral proficiency, and reading and writing. Students planning to transfer to Oregon State University should see information for the Associate of Science with emphasis in Foreign Language. Note that Oregon State has an admission requirement of two consecutive foreign language classes.

For students interested in transferring to an institution other than Oregon State University, it is important that you identify the institution that you plan to attend. An advisor in the foreign language department can help you select the classes at LBCC that will transfer to that institution. You may want to work with an advisor from the transfer institution as well. 

For students interested in the language, culture, and history of Latin American countries, the faculty in the foreign language department recommends the following courses, most of which can be taken as part of the General Education component of the Associate of Arts (Oregon Transfer) degree: 

ENG 215 Latino/a Literature (3 credits)

ENG 209 Non-Western World Literature: The Americas (3 credits)

GEOG 202 World Geography: Latin American and Caribbean (3 credits)

HST 158 History of Latin America (3 credits)

If you are studying a program in the Agricultural field, consider taking the specific sequence of SPN 104 Spanish Agriculture/Horticulture I and SPN 105 Spanish Agriculture/Horticulture II.

If you are a Spanish heritage speaker (someone who learned the language at home, as a child), we offer a special sequence to strengthen your language skills. This sequence (SPN 214, SPN 215 and SPN 216) can also be taken as part of the Associate of Arts (Oregon Transfer) degree.

In addition to our credit classes, LBCC also offers a wide variety of non-credit conversational foreign languages to meet community interests and the needs of local employers. Conversational foreign language classes are offered through community education centers in Albany, Corvallis and Lebanon. They include: beginning conversation classes in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian; beginning and intermediate classes in American Sign Language; and beginning, intermediate, and advanced conversation classes in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.