The growing importance of Spanish, now spoken as a first language by more than 30 million North Americans, has made it essential for many professionals to be fluent. The objective at The College of Wooster is to enrich students intellectually and to fully equip them for their experiences in the real world.

The curriculum of the Department of Spanish may be utilized for specialization leading to public school or university teaching; research in Peninsular Spanish literature and culture, Latin American literatures and cultures or Hispanic Linguistics; business and government work; work with the Peace Corps and a wide variety of professional, service, and voluntary agencies in Spanish-speaking areas of the world and urban and rural concentrations of Hispanic peoples in the USA.