Department of Hispanic Studies

Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! Bem-vindos!

Learn Spanish and Portuguese with us!

Is your future in international business? Living abroad? Helping your community? A major or minor in Spanish or Portuguese and Brazilian Studies can help you accomplish your goals.

When you choose to study Spanish or Portuguese with Hispanic Studies you are choosing to grow your language skills, your brain power, your understanding of the world, and your salary upon graduation. No matter what the level of Spanish or Portuguese you have when you enter our programs, we will help you achieve more than you thought you could.

 In our classes and programs, we will help you to build fluency in Spanish and Portuguese while teaching you how to communicate across cultures. With us you will learn to speak a new language – or improve the skills that you already have – alongside award-winning professors who are also inventors, researchers, writers, philosophers, and artists. 

Our students in Hispanic Studies go on to win Fulbrights, direct companies, save lives, and help people everyday with what they learned in our classrooms. 

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Portuguese Studies

College of Charleston's Portuguese Studies offers different Portuguese class options each semester. If interested in PORT, please contact us at the address below.