What You Can Do with Your Degree in Foreign Languages

  • Tristan Tappe, who is pursuing a career in law enforcement, discusses how having foreign language skills makes an IUP graduate stand out in the job market.

  • Jesse Carnevali

    Faculty in All Disciplines Influenced His Success as a Teacher

    “IUP has helped me reach my ultimate goal of being an effective teacher. Each faculty member, regardless of the discipline, had a positive impact on my success. I am proud to be an IUP graduate. If I could go back, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

    Jesse Carnivali, BS in Spanish Education K-12 and BA in Spanish, Spanish teacher at Franklin Regional Middle and High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania

    Foreign Languages are the Gateway to International Careers and Teaching

    Your ability to speak at a given level of proficiency in a foreign language is invaluable if you want a career in international business, diplomacy, communications, journalism, or teaching. Even if you don’t travel, your proficiency in a foreign language will open doors in government agencies, cultural organizations, and corporations.

    Careers

    With a major or minor in foreign languages, you will have a competitive advantage. Here are just some of the careers that look for people who bring the added value of speaking another language:

    • Arts and arts management
    • Consultancy
    • Diplomacy
    • Financial institutions and banks
    • Hospitality management
    • Human resources
    • International organizations
    • Journalism
    • K-12 teacher
    • Media and marketing
    • Politics
    • Public service
    • Tourism
    • Trade
    • Translation and interpretation

    Path to Higher Degrees

    The opportunities to go on to graduate studies are numerous. Consider pursuing master’s and doctorates in specific foreign language studies, as well as other programs such as Human Resources and Employment Relations, Safety Sciences, Sociology, and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

  • Catelin Shontz at her desk

    USES FRENCH TO WORK WITH WEB CLIENTS — Catelin Shontz, BS in Marketing with minors in French and statistics, is an Internet marketing specialist for WebpageFX in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “I have had the opportunity to provide search engine optimization and pay-per-click ad services to clients in French! It’s definitely challenging, but nothing that my college experience didn’t teach me that I could handle,” she said.

  • Department of Foreign Languages
  • Sutton Hall, Room 455
    Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-2325
  • Fax: 724-357-1268
  • Office Hours
  • Monday–Friday
  • 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.