When you choose to study a Romance language, you are making one of the most beneficial decisions of your life. Studying a foreign language enables you to:

• increase your understanding of other peoples and cultures
  
• develop your critical, interpretive, and creative thinking skills
  
• increase your opportunities to work internationally
  
• analyze some of the world's richest literatures
  
• gain access to a wealth of foreign media, literature, and culture
• study abroad, and gain direct knowledge of other ways of life
  
• perform better on standardized tests (research shows a correlation between foreign language study and high scores on tests such as the GRE, MCAT, and LSAT)
  
• improve your vocabulary in English