Department of Foreign Languages provides a vital component in the undergraduate liberal arts education offered at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The department promotes multilingualism as the key to intercultural understanding. It does so through courses in foreign language, culture, and literature, including English language for native speakers of other languages; major and minor programs in a number of world languages; study abroad opportunities and internships in many countries; and student/faculty collaborative research.

Graduates from the Department of Foreign Languages serve at home and abroad as ambassadors for a diverse, peacefully interacting global society.

Beth Baier '79 credited her ability to succeed in international business to a global sensitivity developed through two aspects of her UW-Eau Claire education: her dual degree in Spanish and an immersion program in Mexico in the summer of 1978.